Bouillon Julien, a bouillon on rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis since 1906

Bouillon Julien, a bouillon on rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis, claims 1906 and its founder, the architect Édouard Fournier, who put up the building in 1901 and 1902. The restaurant first opened as Gandon-Fournier, on the site of a Cheval Blanc inn recorded as early as 1787.

Its Art Nouveau decor gathered the great names of the day: Louis Trézel’s four women in pâte de verre, inspired by Mucha, Armand Ségaud’s peacocks, a floor of columbines and daisies from the Boulenger potteries, and a mahogany bar attributed to Louis Majorelle. Julien Barbarin, who inherited it in 1924, added glass roofs designed by Charles Buffet, father of Bernard Buffet.

It took the name Julien in 1938. Édith Piaf waited for Marcel Cerdan at table 24, and Olivier Dahan filmed La Vie en Rose here. The room was listed as a historic monument in 1997; the brasserie joined the Flo group in 1975 and became a bouillon again in 2018.

On the edge of the faubourg Saint-Denis, it belongs to Les Grandes Brasseries de l’Est and serves simple bouillon cooking from lunch to late supper, true to its founder’s motto: everything here is beautiful, good and cheap.