La Baignoire by Lili, at 7 rue Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Nouvelle in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, can be hired for company lunches and dinners, client meals, cocktails, small weddings and shoots, for groups of 6 to 40 guests. The restaurant has two spaces, a ground-floor bistro and a vaulted stone cellar below, that can be booked separately or together. The cooking is Mediterranean and made in-house, and the restaurant holds one toque in the Gault & Millau guide.
Seminars and company events
The venue lists company lunches and dinners, seminars, launches, farewell parties and shoots among its occasions. It is a restaurant rather than a meeting center, so it fits a team lunch, a leadership dinner, a client evening or a launch cocktail. The team lunch formula runs from Tuesday to Saturday for groups of 6 or more and is served in 1 hour 15 minutes, so the group is back on time. Dinners start at 4 guests, and a standing cocktail with small plates starts at 10.
Saturday is the simplest day to book. Since September, the restaurant keeps all of Saturday for private events, which is the only day it is closed to the public. That allows free hours, an adapted layout and no service constraints. A dry hire is possible every day of the week, with both spaces, the full team and the restaurant closed to the public. A catering service can be added for teams, on quotation.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings in a small group, civil partnerships, engagements, birthdays and retirement parties are on the list of occasions. The whole house, with the bistro, the counter and the cellar, suits an intimate wedding dinner or a reception where guests move between two atmospheres.
Rooms and capacities
The bistro is the main room, with wooden tables and a counter open to the kitchen. It seats 16 at tables plus 4 at the counter, and takes up to 40 guests for a standing format. The vaulted stone cellar, reached by a hidden spiral staircase, seats 16 and is described as a closed, quiet room where the chef can present dishes herself, suited to leadership dinners and small client evenings. The whole house hosts up to 40 guests, and up to 50 in buffet format. The official pages give slightly different cellar figures in different places (14, 16 and 18), so confirm the seating plan you need.
Catering
Chef Alizée Rat cooks a sunny, instinctive Mediterranean menu that follows the market. Dishes, desserts, liqueurs and cocktails are all made on site. Meat is French, fish comes from sustainable fishing on French coasts and the restaurant works with no wholesaler, buying from independent producers, craftspeople and winemakers. Drinks include organic or natural independent wines, signature cocktails, house non-alcoholic drinks and craft beers, with pairings available with or without alcohol.
Getting there
The restaurant is close to the metro stations Bonne Nouvelle, Strasbourg-Saint-Denis and Sentier, near the Grand Rex, the Porte Saint-Denis and the Passage des Panoramas. Regular service runs Tuesday to Friday for lunch and dinner, and the last booking for regular service is at 9:30 p.m.
