Café de La Paix

What Café de La Paix does

Café de la Paix is a historic Parisian restaurant and brasserie established in 1862 at 5 Place de l'Opéra, directly facing the Palais Garnier in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. The venue operates as a single flagship location featuring listed Napoléon III décor and offers a full hospitality program: an elegant restaurant serving classic French cuisine (foie gras, tartare, sole, French onion soup, oysters and shellfish at the Oyster Bar), an all-day café and terrace overlooking the Opéra Garnier, and late-night service. The venue shares premises with the Grand Hôtel and is operationally affiliated with InterContinental Paris Le Grand under IHG, evidenced by the @ihg.com corporate email domain and cross-promotional links on each partner's website.

The company's revenue model is direct-to-consumer restaurant dining, supplemented by ancillary retail channels. Primary revenue derives from on-premise food and beverage sales to walk-in guests and reservations. Secondary streams include an online boutique (boutique-cafedelapaix.com) selling branded pastries and merchandise, and gift cards sold via secretbox.fr. Pricing is transactional per-cover; only the €6 'Breakfasts for Hearts' charity menu is publicly disclosed, with full restaurant and café pricing held internally. The customer base is split between international tourists seeking an iconic Parisian dining experience and local Parisian clientele frequenting the café, terrace, and special-occasion dining, with a secondary wellness-oriented segment being cultivated through the COMBEAU marine collagen summer menu launched June 18, 2026.

Café de la Paix markets itself primarily through its physical presence, brand heritage (160+ years of continuous operation), Instagram (@cafedelapaixparis), an email newsletter, and a bilingual French/English website. The establishment operates with approximately 16 directly attributed employees, has no proprietary technology platform, no mobile app, no AI capabilities, and has not raised any external funding. Strategic activity is concentrated on seasonal menu collaborations, annual charity programming under the patronage of Inès de la Fressange, and ancillary retail channels rather than unit-level expansion.

Name

Café de La Paix

Legal name

Café de la Paix

Website

https://cafedelapaix.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1862

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Café de la Paix is a historic Parisian restaurant and brasserie established in 1862 on Place de l'Opéra facing the Opéra Garnier. It serves classic French cuisine, oysters, and all-day café service to international tourists and Parisians from a single flagship venue affiliated with InterContinental Paris Le Grand under IHG.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Fine Dining Restaurant

NAICS

Full-Service Restaurants (722511)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810)

akta.pro primary industry

Brasseries, Bistros & Trattorias (THAFACAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

Hotel & Resort Restaurants (THAFACAH)

Keywords

• French cuisine restaurant
• Parisian brasserie dining
• Fine dining services
• Historic restaurant hospitality
• Café and terrace experience

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Restaurant dining — food and beverage sales: The primary revenue stream is in-restaurant dining, offering French cuisine including foie gras, tartare, sole, French onion soup, oysters, shellfish, and other seafood at the Oyster Bar. The venue also serves a café menu and terrace offerings throughout the day and late into the night. No subscription or usage-based model is described.
2. Boutique — pastry and gift product sales: An online boutique (boutique-cafedelapaix.com) sells products including pastries and likely other food items. Gift cards are sold via secretbox.fr.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Café de La Paix is a historic Parisian restaurant and brasserie inaugurated in 1862 on the Place de l'Opéra, directly facing the Opéra Garnier. It serves classic French cuisine (foie gras, tartare, sole, French onion soup) and seafood at its Oyster Bar in a listed Napoléon III décor setting, alongside an all-day café and terrace service. The venue also operates an online boutique selling branded food products and gift cards through a third-party platform.

Product overview

Café de la Paix is a historic Parisian institution offering two distinct dining experiences: an elegant restaurant serving classic French cuisine in Napoléon III décor, and an all-day café and terrace overlooking the Opéra Garnier. The venue also features an Oyster Bar for seafood. The company operates a boutique for branded merchandise and offers gift cards through a third-party platform. Seasonal collaborations, such as the COMBEAU wellness menu, add limited-time offerings to the core dining services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Restaurant An elegant restaurant blending listed Napoleon III décor with a contemporary spirit, serving classics of French cuisine including foie gras, tartare, sole, and French onion soup, plus an Oyster Bar offering oysters, shellfish and other seafood. Targets diners seeking an iconic Parisian culinary experience.
• Café and Terrace All-day café service offering quick coffee on the terrace, light gourmet lunch, and homemade pastries, located with iconic views overlooking the Palais Garnier. Open from morning to late into the night.
• Boutique (Online Store) An online boutique selling Café de la Paix branded products including pastries and other takeaway food items, allowing customers worldwide to purchase branded items from the establishment.
• Gift Cards Digital gift card offerings sold through the Secret Box platform, allowing customers to gift dining experiences at Café de la Paix to others.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• COMBEAUminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 June 2026Starting June 18 to September 21, 2026, Café de la Paix partners with COMBEAU to unveil an exclusive summer menu enriched with marine collagen. The menu, designed by Executive Chef Laurent André, reimagines breakfast and lunch traditions through collagen-infused yogurt, vanilla chia pudding, avocado scrambled eggs at breakfast, and chilled tomato velouté, citrus sea bass carpaccio, and vanilla-watermelon panna cotta at lunch. Two signature collagen beverages — L'Élixir and Matcha Collagen Latte — are also offered. Available at the brasserie and terrace overlooking Palais Garnier.
• Mécénat Chirurgie CardiaqueminorOthers · 1 January 2011Charitable partnership supporting children with congenital heart defects. The 'Breakfasts for Hearts' initiative, now in its 14th edition (2026) under the patronage of Inès de la Fressange, runs from June 8 to 19. For each €6 breakfast menu sold, proceeds help fund life-saving surgeries for children. Five exclusive 'Heart Tokens' hidden inside pastries celebrate the association's 30th anniversary. Since 2011, 18 children have received operations through this initiative.
• InterContinental Paris Le GrandcoreOthersCafé de la Paix shares premises with the Grand Hôtel and is affiliated with InterContinental Paris Le Grand (operated under IHG). The email contact is [email protected]. The venue appears to be operated within or in close association with the InterContinental Paris Le Grand hotel property, with cross-promotional links on each other's websites.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Le Train Bleu: Iconic restaurant inside the Gare de Lyon in Paris, serving classical French cuisine beneath listed Belle Époque décor. Comparable as a single-venue, heritage-positioned brasserie with strong tourist footfall in a transit-anchored Parisian landmark.
• Les Deux Magots: Historic Parisian café-brasserie (1884) on Boulevard Saint-Germain, serving traditional French cuisine and café fare to an international clientele. Directly comparable in heritage positioning, full-service brasserie format, and tourist/local segment mix.
• Bouillon Chartier: Historic Parisian bouillon founded in 1896, serving traditional French cuisine at accessible prices in a Belle Époque setting. Comparable as a heritage Parisian restaurant competing for tourist and local diners in a single landmark venue.
• Le Procope: Oldest continuously operating restaurant in Paris (1686), serving classical French cuisine in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés quarter. Comparable as a heritage single-venue Parisian brasserie leveraging history to attract tourists and locals.
• Le Café de Flore: Iconic Parisian brasserie and café founded in 1887, also serving classic French fare and café menus to a mix of tourists and locals. It is the closest historic-parisian-café peer in heritage, customer mix, and product offering.
• Bouillon Pigalle: Modern revival of the historic Parisian bouillon concept, offering classic French dishes in a heritage-inspired setting. Comparable as a brasserie-format competitor targeting tourists and locals in Paris, with broader contemporary appeal.
• Maxim's: Legendary Art Nouveau Parisian restaurant (1893) on Rue Royale, recognised as a historic luxury dining institution. Comparable as a heritage Parisian fine-dining venue competing for tourist and luxury clientele in the central Paris market.
• La Coupole: Historic Montparnasse brasserie opened in 1927, known for its Art Deco interior and classic French cuisine. Comparable as a single-location Parisian institution competing for the heritage-brasserie tourist segment.
• Fouquet's: Legendary Parisian brasserie on the Champs-Élysées, part of the Barrière group, offering classic French cuisine in a listed Art Nouveau setting. Highly comparable as a single-venue, heritage-positioned brasserie targeting tourists and Parisian elites.

Broad incumbents

• InterContinental Paris Le Grand: Co-located hotel operator (IHG) sharing the Grand Hôtel premises with Café de la Paix. Most comparable as an incumbent operator that shares the building, brand affinity, and customer pipeline with the restaurant, and is publicly affiliated with the brasserie's contact infrastructure.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/cafedelapaixparis
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/caf%C3%A9-de-la-paix

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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