Im Thaï Gourmet is a Thai restaurant at 8 rue de Port-Mahon, in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris near the Opéra. It spreads over two floors and holds up to 70 guests, and the whole first-floor room can be privatized. The house regularly hosts company evenings and cocktail receptions, as well as private dinners for individuals. It is a practical choice for a team dinner or a client evening in the center of Paris, with Thai cooking made in-house.
Seminars and company events
The restaurant states that it often organizes events for companies, either as seated evenings or as cocktail receptions. For a larger group, the first-floor room can be hired in full, which keeps the evening separate from the regular service downstairs. Typical uses are a team dinner, an end-of-project celebration, a farewell evening or a small client reception.
This is a dining venue. The official pages do not describe screens, a plenary room or meeting equipment, so a working seminar is not what it sells. Daytime formats are not described either, and the pages focus on evening events. The restaurant gives a phone number and an email address on its site for event enquiries, and it suggests making contact directly to settle the date, the headcount and the format.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings are not mentioned on the official pages. The restaurant does say that it organizes private evenings for individuals as well as companies, so a birthday, a family dinner or a private party fits within the same offer and the same capacity.
Rooms and capacities
The restaurant is organized on two floors and can accommodate 70 people in total. The first-floor room can be privatized completely. The official text gives no separate figure for the first floor alone, so ask the team how many guests that room holds in seated and in cocktail layouts before you plan the guest list. The dining room is described as spacious, with a combination of colors that makes it warm, friendly and slightly exotic, and a decorated mirror with traditional Thai patterns gives the room its Thai touch.
Catering
The cooking is Thai and homemade, prepared with fresh products by a Thai chef who has 20 years of experience in Thai cuisine. The menu changes between lunch and dinner. One dish the house presents as a signature is the tigre qui pleure, a grilled beef rib steak served in the Thai style. The restaurant also sells takeaway and delivery through an online platform, which shows that its kitchen is set up for volume. For a private event, the menu and the drinks are agreed with the team. Event menus are not detailed on the official pages.
History and setting
The restaurant has been open for more than ten years and presents itself as a small restaurant in the heart of Paris. It is run by a team that cooks everything on site. The setting is the busy district around the Opéra Garnier, with theaters, department stores and offices within walking distance, which suits after-work events.
Getting there
The restaurant is at 8 rue de Port-Mahon, 75002 Paris, a few minutes on foot from the Opéra. The area is served by several metro lines and by the Auber RER station, and by many buses, so guests coming from the train stations of northern and eastern Paris can reach it without changing more than once. Reservations and event requests are made by email or by phone through the contact details on the official site.
