Le Grand Café Fauchon and its terrace host seminars, meetings, study days, press events and private receptions for 8 to 120 guests, from a breakfast meeting to a cocktail party across the café and the terrace together. The restaurant belongs to Hôtel Fauchon Paris, at the corner of Place de la Madeleine and Boulevard Malesherbes in the 8th arrondissement.
Seminars and company events
For meetings, the Jardin des Thés is the most flexible room: 70 square meters under overhead daylight, set for up to 30 in theater style, 25 in a double U, 20 in cabaret or 15 in a U. The Suite Madeleine, with windows on three sides, takes up to 8 at a table for a board dinner. The event team plans each booking with the client, and formats cover breakfast, lunch, dinner, cocktail, brunch, afternoon snack and tea-time. A TV screen and sound system are available on request.
Weddings and receptions
The venue takes private receptions, birthdays, christenings and bachelor or bachelorette parties. The site does not list weddings among its offers. For a large reception, the café and the terrace together hold 120 guests for a cocktail.
Rooms and capacities
Le Grand Café Fauchon covers 250 square meters and can be fully privatised, with 42 seated or 60 for a cocktail. La Terrasse covers 200 square meters with a view of the Madeleine church: 50 seated and 60 for a cocktail when fully privatised, or 20 in a semi-private section on the square side. The Jardin des Thés seats 30 for dinner and 50 for a cocktail. The Suite Madeleine covers 65 square meters, for 8 seated or 10 standing.
Accommodation
Hôtel Fauchon Paris offers rooms and suites above the café, in categories that run from Classic and Superior rooms to Deluxe rooms with an Eiffel Tower view, the Chic Suite, the Duplex Eiffel Tower Suite, the Suite Madeleine and the Suite Fauchon. The site does not give a total room count.
Catering
The kitchen is led by chef Baptiste Limouzin, and the five o'clock tea is signed by pastry chef Arnaud Larher, Meilleur Ouvrier de France. The café serves from 7 am to 10:30 pm, with weekend brunch, afternoon tea from Friday to Sunday and live French song evenings on Thursdays. Event menus come from the same kitchen.
History and setting
Fauchon is a Paris food house, and its hotel and café face the Madeleine church, one of the city's best-known squares for fine food shops. The terrace opens for breakfast through dinner in fine weather, which gives summer events an outdoor setting in the center of the city.
Getting there
Madeleine metro station, served by lines 8, 12 and 14, is on the square. Line 14 runs directly to Gare de Lyon and to Orly Airport, and Gare Saint-Lazare is a short walk away. Paris-Charles de Gaulle is the main international airport.
