The Chalet des Îles can host seminars, press conferences, business lunches and dinners, gala evenings, team building, weddings and private parties for 30 to 800 guests. The island can be hired partly or in full from 35 adults. The restaurant stands on an island in the Lac Inférieur of the Bois de Boulogne, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, reached by a short boat crossing from Porte de la Muette.
Seminars and company events
The corporate offer covers seminars, press conferences, business lunches and dinners, working meetings, team building, evening parties and gala dinners. Each project is followed by a single contact person who plans the logistics, writes the menus and keeps the overall budget under control. The chalet lists past corporate clients from media, banking, cars and consumer goods, including France Télévisions, BNP Paribas, Renault and L'Oréal.
Services can be added on request: indoor and outdoor lighting, flowers, sound, microphones and video, DJs, live musicians, themed entertainment, photographers and videographers, a selfie booth, hosts and valets, dedicated taxi ranks, a private shuttle and rowing boats on the lake. The team also handles the decor: table linen, centerpieces, candle holders, buffet design and lighting of the landing stage and terraces.
Weddings and receptions
The chalet hosts weddings, birthdays and christenings, as lunches, dinners, cocktails or parties. Arrival by boat and a lakeside terrace give a wedding a setting that is rare inside Paris. For a large wedding, the whole island can be booked, with up to 800 guests.
Rooms and capacities
The spaces are designed to be modular. The lakeside terrace (100 m²) takes up to 100 guests. The outdoor bar (90 m²) takes 20 to 120. The restaurant and its balcony (200 m²) take up to 110. The Pavillon and its terrace (131 m²) take 20 to 120, and the Patio and its terrace (119 m²) 20 to 90. The Orangerie, a winter garden of 150 m², takes 20 to 140. The rear terrace (180 m²) takes 20 to 180, and the Table du Potager, set in the 275 m² vegetable garden, takes 10 to 40. Several spaces combine for larger groups, up to 800 people with the whole island.
Catering
Chef Pierre Chomet runs the kitchen. He cooks with nearby French producers and the chalet's own vegetable garden, following the seasons, and designs made-to-measure menus for each event. In regular service, the restaurant serves dinner from Wednesday to Friday, lunch and dinner on Saturday and brunch on Sunday, and the bar opens from Wednesday to Saturday with DJ sets at weekends.
History and setting
In 1857, Empress Eugénie brought a Swiss wooden chalet to the island of the new Bois de Boulogne lake. In 2024, the architect Nicolas Laisné reworked the chalet in larch, a natural low-carbon material, and redesigned the gardens and terraces around the vegetable garden.
Getting there
The landing stage is at 14 chemin de Ceinture du Lac Inférieur, Porte de la Muette, and a boat called La Canotière makes the crossing. La Muette metro station is a 15-minute walk, Avenue Henri Martin RER station 10 minutes, and the Porte de la Muette bus stop 9 minutes. By car, leave the ring road at Porte de la Muette. Parking is in front of the landing stage, with paid valet service and a Vélib' station nearby.
