Le 153 can host private and company events for up to 150 guests across its three floors, in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris. The venue is a cocktail bar at 153 rue Saint-Martin, a short walk from the Centre Pompidou, and its official site offers hire for incentive days, team building sessions and special evenings.
Seminars and company events
The official site presents Le 153 as an atypical place that welcomes private and corporate events. Three formats are named: incentive days, team building and special evenings. A bar is not a classic meeting room, so the formats that fit best are a cocktail reception, an after-work gathering, a launch party or a team evening where drinks and conversation are the program. An organiser who needs a plenary session with projection should ask the team which floor can be set up that way, because the site does not describe technical equipment.
The bar also runs its own calendar. Recent listings include a comedy club night, an exhibition, a music day and an anniversary party. This shows that the floors are used for shows and gatherings, not only for table service, which is useful for a company that wants an animated format.
Rooms and capacities
The bar can receive 150 people spread over three separate floors. The site does not name the floors or give a figure for each one, so 150 applies to the whole venue. The privatisation page offers a commercial brochure with more detail, and requests for hire go through a form on that page. For ordinary evenings, the bar takes no reservations below 10 people and welcomes walk-ins, since its capacity is large. A private event is a separate request.
The venue is open Monday to Saturday from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. for regular service. Private events are therefore most naturally planned for the evening. An organiser who wants a daytime slot, for example for an incentive day, should ask whether one can be arranged.
Catering
Le 153 is a cocktail bar, and its drinks menu is the center of the offer. Its Google listing also classes it as a wine bar and a restaurant with Spanish and European cuisine. The official pages read for this profile do not describe a catering package for events. Ask whether food is prepared in-house, whether an outside caterer can work on site, and how the cocktail list can be adapted to a group, with or without alcohol.
Getting there
Le 153 is at 153 rue Saint-Martin, 75003 Paris, two steps from the Centre Pompidou and about five minutes on foot from the metro lines at Châtelet. The district is central and well served, which helps when a team arrives from several parts of the city. The neighborhood is lively in the evening, so guests leaving late will find it easy to continue by metro, taxi or on foot.
