East Mamma can be booked in full for up to 118 seated guests or 130 for a standing reception, or in part for groups of 10 to 65, for company dinners, team parties, birthdays and family gatherings. The restaurant is an Italian trattoria of the Big Mamma group at 133 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, near Bastille.
Seminars and company events
East Mamma suits a team dinner after a day of meetings elsewhere in Paris, an end-of-year party, a client evening or a farewell drink. Private hire is offered from 21 guests, either as a full buyout or as a partial hire of one area. For smaller groups of 10 to 25, the restaurant takes large-table bookings with a fixed-price group menu, booked online. No meeting room or projection equipment is listed, so the venue works for the dinner or reception part of a program rather than for the working sessions.
Rooms and capacities
The whole restaurant seats 118 or takes 130 standing. Three areas can be hired on their own. La Mostra takes 40 guests, seated or standing. The Piazza takes 65 guests for a cocktail reception. La Loggia is a smaller space for a table of 10, suited to a board dinner or a client meal. The group publishes a brochure with menus and conditions for each format, which it sends with its reply to a request.
Catering
The kitchen is the restaurant's own, so food and drink come from East Mamma. The cooking is Italian trattoria fare, with pizzas, pasta and antipasti, and group menus are set at a fixed price per person. Cocktail formats suit the Piazza and the full standing buyout, while seated menus suit La Mostra, La Loggia and the full seated buyout. Dietary needs are best raised with the group's events team when the menu is chosen.
History and setting
East Mamma opened in 2015 as the first restaurant of Big Mamma, a group founded in Paris by Tigrane Seydoux and Victor Lugger that now runs Italian restaurants in several European cities, including Pink Mamma, Ober Mamma and Mamma Primi in Paris. The group sources much of its produce from small producers in Italy. The Faubourg Saint-Antoine is a long street of former furniture workshops, courtyards and shops running east from Place de la Bastille, one of the busiest areas of Paris for evenings out, which makes it easy to continue the night nearby after a company dinner.
Getting there
The restaurant is on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, between Bastille and Nation. Ledru-Rollin metro station on line 8 is a short walk away, and Bastille, served by lines 1, 5 and 8, is within walking distance. Gare de Lyon, for TGV trains from the south and east of France, is about 15 minutes on foot, which suits teams arriving from other cities for the evening. Paris Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports both link to central Paris by train or RER.
