Lieu Secret is a privately hired reception venue at 2 rue des Anglais, in the Latin Quarter of Paris 5th, a few steps from Notre-Dame. Behind a bookcase, a main room, a bar, a smoking room and a cloakroom are rented to one client for the whole event. It hosts from 30 to 150 guests and can run until 6 a.m., every day of the year. The team says it has run more than 500 events since 2018.
Seminars and company events
Company formats include a dinner cocktail for 30 to 90 guests, a product launch with a keynote followed by a dance floor for up to 150, an extended afterwork, a VIP client evening, an end-of-year party and a seminar that continues into the evening. The maximum is 150 guests in a dance floor layout, and about 100 for a comfortable dinner cocktail. Below 30 people the format can be adjusted.
For presentations, the venue has a 3,000-lumen video projector, a 1.70 by 1.70 meter screen, two wireless microphones and a sound system tuned for speeches. The team says the switch from presentation to cocktail takes five minutes. The privatization includes a security agent, a drinks package with one or two bartenders, sound and lighting control, HD projection, a cloakroom with a dedicated host, Wi-Fi, air conditioning and a ventilated smoking room. Company invoicing is available, with a detailed quote and a VAT invoice. Branding is possible in the spirit of the venue: photobooth dressing, signage, logo projection, welcome totem and badges. Heavy transformations are not advised.
Weddings and receptions
The venue hosts the party, not the ceremony. Couples join after the civil or religious ceremony for the cocktail, the speeches, the first dance and the dance floor until 6 a.m. The format works well up to 80 guests; beyond that, the cocktail and the dance floor take over. A traditional seated banquet is not offered above 60 guests. You can bring your own champagne and wines without a corkage fee.
Rooms and capacities
The main room holds the bar, the DJ booth and the dance floor. The equipment list includes a Pioneer DJ set-up, eight Palladium speakers, four Evolite light beams and a Sunlite control desk. The smoking room is ventilated and receives up to 20 people. A cloakroom with a dedicated welcome completes the layout.
Catering
Four partner caterers are listed: Calixir, Laboratoire C, Les Foodelles and Cul de Poule. You may also bring your own caterer, without commission, after a visit of the venue. The kitchen has a professional oven, fridges, glass washers and glassware.
History and setting
The venue is designed as a secret place: guests are directed to a bookcase and find the door themselves. It sits in the heart of the Latin Quarter, close to the Sorbonne.
Getting there
Maubert-Mutualité metro station (line 10) is 150 meters away, and Saint-Michel RER B and C station is 350 meters away. Parking Lagrange-Maubert is 50 meters from the door.
