Monsieur Moutarde can be privatized for after-work drinks, company cocktails, product launches, press events, team-building workshops, birthdays and private parties, for up to 250 guests. It is a cocktail bar on the ground floor of the Hôtel Aubriot, a 13th-century mansion listed as a historic monument, at 40 rue des Forges in the historic center of Dijon.
Seminars and company events
The bar sells private hire for professional events as well as private ones. Typical company formats are an after-work or networking cocktail for staff and clients, a product launch or press evening, and a team-building session built around a workshop. The venue is also offered for film shoots and photo sessions.
The team adapts the layout, the sound and the lighting to each event, and helps with decoration and entertainment. Custom cocktails and menus are drawn up with the client before the date, and the staff run the evening on the day. The site does not list projection or conference equipment, so check what is available if you plan a presentation or speeches.
Monsieur Moutarde also sends a mixologist to homes and offices for a cocktail workshop, which can serve as a team activity away from the bar. This service is not offered on Sundays and Mondays.
Rooms and capacities
The whole bar takes up to 250 people. It is laid out as several private lounges with different moods, from a main lounge with soft light to livelier rooms suited to music and dancing, so a group can keep a quiet corner and a dance floor in the same evening. The rooms have stone walls and vaulted ceilings, period furniture, old books, candelabra and mustard-yellow sofas against deep green walls.
An inner courtyard with trees opens in fine weather and is lit with string lights on summer evenings. The courtyard terrace is shared with the bar's regular guests and can only be privatized when the whole venue is booked. Capacities for each lounge are not published, so ask which rooms can be booked on their own for a smaller group.
Catering
Food and drink are handled in house. For events, the team prepares custom cocktails and generous buffets. The regular menu centers on cocktails that use Burgundy ingredients such as verjuice, crème de cassis and infused mustard seeds, with mocktails, a wine selection and craft beers. Plates to share follow the seasons: charcuterie, cheese and small dishes from around the world. A buffet brunch with sweet and savory dishes is served on Sundays from 11:30 am to 3 pm.
History and setting
The Hôtel Aubriot is a townhouse whose origins go back to the 13th century and which is listed as a historic monument. The bar occupies its ground floor and mixes the old stone and vaults with vintage furniture in a style somewhere between a bourgeois drawing room and a cabinet of curiosities. In the evening, jazz gives way to DJ sets, and images are projected on the vaults.
Rue des Forges is one of the main pedestrian streets of old Dijon, between the place de la Libération and the church of Notre-Dame. Guests at an evening event can walk from the bar to the main sights of the historic center.
Getting there
The bar is in the pedestrian center of Dijon, so guests arrive on foot from nearby car parks, hotels or public transport. Dijon-Ville station, with direct TGV trains to Paris, is a short walk or taxi ride away. Allow time for a group to cross the old town on foot to rue des Forges.
