Chez Françoise hosts business lunches and dinners, small seminars, cocktail receptions and family meals in three private salons that seat 8, 16 and 20 guests. The restaurant has served French cooking in the 7th arrondissement of Paris since 1949 and currently operates at 10 rue Amélie, a short walk from its historic home in the Invalides air terminal.
Seminars and company events
The salons are designed for the kind of meeting that ends around a table: a client lunch, a board dinner, a team gathering after a working session, or a small seminar for up to 20 people. The restaurant lists business lunches and dinners, seminars and cocktail receptions among the events it organizes. Fanny, who handles group requests with the Tables Mousset team, helps choose the right room and builds a menu around the format and the timing of the day. Requests start with a form on the restaurant's website and are followed by a tailored proposal. The restaurant is open every day for lunch and dinner, which leaves room for a midweek business meal as well as a weekend event. Valet parking is offered at lunch and dinner, except on Saturday lunchtime and Sunday evening.
Rooms and capacities
Salon des Premiers Ministres is the largest private room, with up to 20 guests. It can be laid out as two tables or as a U shape, which suits a working lunch where everyone needs to see a speaker. Salon Amélie seats up to 16 guests around one long shared table, a good fit for an executive committee or a family dinner. Salon Aveyron, upstairs, takes up to 8 guests at a round table and can be closed off for a confidential conversation. The main dining room has 32 seats and a temporary terrace about 20 more, but the restaurant presents only the three salons as private spaces.
Catering
The kitchen is led by chef Philippe Leglise alongside Pascal Mousset, whose Tables Mousset group runs the restaurant. The cooking is seasonal and French, and menus for groups are adapted to each event rather than chosen from a fixed list. For the end-of-year season, the restaurant publishes dedicated group offers. Catering is in-house: every menu comes from the restaurant's own kitchen.
History and setting
Chez Françoise opened in 1949 and spent decades inside the Invalides air terminal, the former airport terminal building on the Esplanade des Invalides. Renovation work on that building, which is set to house a museum dedicated to Alberto Giacometti, led the restaurant to move in 2024 to rue Amélie, close to its original address. The new rooms are smaller and quieter than the former dining hall, which works well for private meals in small groups. The street lies in a residential part of the 7th arrondissement, a few blocks west of the Esplanade des Invalides.
Getting there
The restaurant is at 10 rue Amélie, 75007 Paris. The Invalides hub, served by metro lines 8 and 13 and RER C, is within walking distance, and La Tour-Maubourg station on line 8 is closer still. Guests arriving by car can use the valet service at most services. The Eiffel Tower district and the ministries of the 7th arrondissement are a few minutes away, which makes the address practical for lunches with visitors, partners and officials.
