Le Gainsbarre can be hired privately for company receptions, cocktail evenings and morning breakfasts, with room for up to 70 guests in the evening and up to 20 at breakfast. It is the restaurant and cocktail bar of the Maison Gainsbourg, at 14 rue de Verneuil in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, and it has about 50 seats.
Seminars and company events
The venue suits short corporate formats rather than full-day meetings: a client evening, a team celebration, a product preview, a morning briefing over breakfast. The Maison Gainsbourg sells the bar alone or combined with the museum and with the historic house next door, so a reception can start with a guided discovery and finish at the bar.
The official site asks organisers to send a request at least one month before the event date. A brief form and a presentation file are available, and a team handles the request by email.
Rooms and capacities
Evening hire runs on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 8 pm to midnight, with three formulas. Le Gainsbarre alone takes 70 guests. The museum plus Le Gainsbarre also takes 70. The full route, which adds the historic house of Serge Gainsbourg at 5 bis rue de Verneuil, is limited to 50.
Two morning formulas exist. A full privatisation from 8 am to 9:30 am, Tuesday to Friday, takes 20 guests and includes breakfast in the bar and a visit of the house and museum. A second formula, open Tuesday to Sunday from 8:30 am, welcomes 6 to 20 guests with early access to the house, a free visit of the museum and breakfast served from 10 am in the bar.
Catering
The bar offers a menu that can be adapted to each event. By day the kitchen serves a simple lunch menu. In the evening the bar turns to cocktails built around Gainsbourg classics, with a non-alcoholic section and a food menu inspired by palace room service, including a croque-monsieur. Breakfast for the morning formulas is made of pastries, hot drinks and juice. On request, a house pianist can play during the evening, and a selection of gifts for guests can be added.
History and setting
The room is inspired by the first years of Serge Gainsbourg's career, when he played piano in Paris bars and cabarets. Its decor recalls the house at 5 bis rue de Verneuil: black felt on the walls, a carpet with poppy and water lily patterns, white window frames, an English-style bow window and black lacquered screens. The museum around it presents about 400 works from the collection of the Maison Gainsbourg, and the site is run by Arteum.
Getting there
The address is in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The nearest metro stations are Rue du Bac (line 12), Saint-Germain-des-Prés (line 4), Mabillon (line 10) and Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre (line 1). RER C stops at Musée d'Orsay. Several bus lines serve the quays nearby, among them 27, 39, 68, 69, 87 and 95.
