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Café de la Musique
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| Cuisine | Cafe | ||
| Hours | Daily 8am-2am; restaurant daily 8am-1am | ||
| Address | 213 av. Jean-Jaurès, 19e | ||
| Location | In the Cité de la Musique, place Fontaine aux Lions, 19th Arrondissement (Buttes Chaumont) | ||
| Transportation | Métro: Porte de Pantin | ||
| Phone | 01-48-03-15-91 | ||
| Web site | www.cite-musique.fr | ||
| Prices | Main courses 10€-28€ ($15-$41) | ||
| Credit Cards | AE, DC, MC, V | ||
Frommer's Review
This cafe's location, in one of the grandest of Mitterrand's grands travaux, guarantees a crowd passionately devoted to music; the recorded sounds that play in the background are likely to be more diverse and more eclectic than those in any other cafe in Paris. The red-and-green velour setting might remind you of a modern opera house. Although it originated in the late 1990s as a cafe serving light platters, sandwiches, and drinks, its cuisine became dramatically more sophisticated in 2002, the year it was taken over by culinary legend and nightlife impresario Alain Poudou. The menu was inspired by the cuisine served in one of Paris's trendiest hotels, the Costes, and is likely to include lobster-studded risotto, roasted rack of lamb with thyme, fresh salads of the type you'd find in Italy, brochettes of shrimp with spinach, and baked salmon in a white-wine cream sauce. As the evening progresses, this place takes on more of the ambience of a hip nightclub as DJs spin various kinds of music.
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