Le Dôme, a brasserie on boulevard du Montparnasse since 1897

Le Dôme, a brasserie on boulevard du Montparnasse, opened in 1897 on the corner of rue Delambre. Paul Chambon, from the Auvergne, set up a modest bistro in a sleepy district that would soon become the heart of artistic Paris.

By the early twentieth century, Le Dôme was the first café of Montparnasse and the meeting place of the Anglo-American colony. Painters, sculptors, models and dealers crossed paths here and were known as the Dômiers. Hemingway met Pascin here, Henry Miller and Sartre wrote it into their books, and Agnès Varda filmed a scene of Cléo from 5 to 7.

After the Roaring Twenties the house settled down with the district and became a fish restaurant, long holding a Michelin star. Bought by the Bras family in 1970, it is run today by Édouard and Maxime Bras, who entrusted its interiors to the designer Axel Huynh.

Opposite La Rotonde at the Vavin crossroads, it serves oyster platters and sole meunière in the brasserie and the restaurant, with a private room for seven. The Japanese chef Yoshihiko Miura leads the kitchen.