La Casbah is a restaurant, cocktail bar and dance club at 18-20 rue de la Forge Royale in the 11th arrondissement of Paris that can be hired for private events, with two spaces that together take up to 250 guests. It sits in the Bastille and Charonne area.
Seminars and company events
The venue offers its restaurant and its dancing room for private hire. For a company, this fits an end-of-year party, a launch evening, an afterwork, a team celebration or a cocktail followed by a dance floor. It is not a conference venue: there is no meeting room, but the restaurant is fitted with sound and a piano, and the club room has a technical booth.
Availability depends on the day. From Sunday to Wednesday, spaces can be booked from 9 a.m. to 5 a.m. From Thursday to Saturday, availability runs from 9 a.m. to midnight. On the days the dance floor opens to the public, from Thursday to Saturday, private use stops at 10:30 p.m., though guests may stay in the building until dawn if they wish.
Weddings and receptions
The venue lists private parties among its uses, but weddings are not named. Birthdays and festive evenings are the clearest fit.
Rooms and capacities
The Restaurant takes 60 seated or 100 standing. The interior was designed by Lola Ferrara-Wyszkop together with the studio Les Autruches, in ochre tones with reworked mashrabiya screens and colored zellige tiles, for a bohemian look. The space is wired for sound, so it can play the music of the dance floor or a playlist, and it has a piano.
The Dancing is in the basement. It holds 150 people and has a star-patterned dance floor with mirror balls, a bar and a smoking room. Hosts can bring their own DJ or plug in a playlist. The venue provides two CDJ 2000 Nexus decks, a DJM900 Nexus mixer and its technical control.
Both spaces together are quoted at up to 250 people.
Catering
The venue offers tailored food and drink packages: the organizer places an order, and the team handles the drinks and the food. The restaurant's cooking is built around mezzés to share, with dishes from the Mediterranean, and the venue also has a cocktail menu and pastries.
History and setting
The venue says it hosted Prince during his night walks in Paris. The restaurant is dressed in a North African style, and the dance floor takes a vintage disco and house theme, with DJ nights from Thursday to Saturday.
Getting there
The address is 18-20 rue de la Forge Royale, in the Bastille and Charonne district of the 11th arrondissement. Several metro lines serve the area, and the Faidherbe-Chaligny station is a short walk away.
