L'Atelier du Cerisier hosts team lunches, business dinners, meetings, seminars and seated or standing cocktails for up to 100 seated guests. It can be hired in full, or a group can reserve tables. The restaurant stands at 97 rue Paul Bert in Lens, in the park of the Louvre-Lens museum, one minute on foot from the museum entrance.
Seminars and company events
The Salle de l'Atelier is a meeting room of 45 square meters for up to 40 people, available for a meeting or a seminar day. Large bay windows bring in daylight on all sides. The team can run a full day around the meeting: welcome breakfast, morning and afternoon coffee breaks, lunch and a closing cocktail. Each offer is adapted to the group's schedule and constraints.
For larger events, the Louvre-Lens rents its own spaces, from 42 to 200 square meters and up to 560 people, while Le Cerisier provides the catering. The museum handles the room booking directly. Le Cerisier can also add museum entry tickets at a group rate, so a seminar can end with a visit to the collections.
Weddings and receptions
The restaurant welcomes family celebrations and private parties with full or partial hire, as seated meals or cocktails. Weddings are not presented as a separate offer on the site.
Rooms and capacities
The main dining room of L'Atelier seats up to 100. The meeting room takes 40. Inside the museum hall, La Pause du Cerisier, the cafeteria run by the same team, seats up to 40 and can also take groups. Every Cerisier venue has a terrace in fine weather, and equipment rental may be added depending on the request.
Catering
The kitchen is in-house. The chef and his team cook creative, seasonal dishes with local produce and a strong share of vegetables. Group formats include a seated meal from a dedicated group menu, a lunch or dinner cocktail, finger food, a meeting with breaks, and packed lunches, which are offered only in Lens. Regional dishes from the north of France, such as carbonnade flamande or flamiche au maroilles, can be added on request.
History and setting
Le Cerisier is the gastronomy brand of ICM, a family group owned by the Marquet family. It opened in Vieux-Lille in April 2019, with a brasserie and a restaurant that holds one Michelin star. Two years later the group opened L'Atelier and La Pause at the Louvre-Lens. The museum building was designed by the Japanese practice SANAA, and its park, landscaped by Catherine Mosbach, surrounds the restaurant. The team also runs seasonal events in the park, such as a guinguette and a barbecue during the museum's open-air cinema night.
Getting there
L'Atelier has a private car park, and bicycles can be left in the park of the Louvre-Lens. Bus line 41 stops at Louvre-Lens, and the shuttle stop Bulle 1 serves the museum park. The Stade Bollaert-Delelis is about eight minutes on foot, the Loos-en-Gohelle slag heaps about ten, and the 9-9 bis mining site about 20 minutes by car. Lens station is in the town center for groups coming by train from Lille or Paris.
