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5 unusual facts about Café de Paris


Café de Paris

Café de Paris (Monaco), Monte Carlo restaurant which opened in 1985 adjacent to Casino Café de Paris and Hôtel de Paris, with interior designed as recreation of old Monaco circa 1900

Café de Paris (Cubzac-les-Ponts), wine-making enterprise founded in 1967 and located around and within limestone caves at Cubzac-les-Ponts commune in Aquitaine region of Southwestern France

--*Café de Paris (Vilnius), bar/cafeteria/cocktail restaurant on Didžioji Street, near Pilies Street in Lithuanian capital's historic Old Town; established in 1994; popular as bohemian-style "hangout" for students, artists and tourists -->

Café de Paris sauce, complex butter-based sauce served with grilled meats; best known as entrecôte Café de Paris and renowned as delicacy originated in 1940s at Geneva's Café de Paris by its then-owner, "Freddy" Dumont

Café de Paris (film), French mystery thriller released in September 1938; written and directed by Georges Lacombe and Yves Mirande, it stars Véra Korène, Simone Berriau, Jules Berry, Jacques Naumer and Pierre Brasseur


Christopher Pond

They then created the Café de Paris in Melbourne, before moving into railway catering for the gold miners' Melbourne-Ballarat Railway during the 1850s.

L'Entrecôte

In serving steak-frites as the sole main dish, he was modelling his restaurant after the Café de Paris in Geneva, which had been serving steak-frites in this way since the early 1940s.


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Eric Scarboro

In November 2004, his wrestling troupe, the Sensational I.W.F., were asked to perform at The Cafe De Paris, Leicester Square, to celebrate the 25th birthday of VIZ Magazine, before an invited audience of B, C and D-list celebrities and fans of the magazine.

Les Variations

Their pioneering introduction of sounds and styles taken from their Moroccan heritages, was exemplified in the albums Moroccan Roll (produced by Ralph Moss), and Cafe de Paris (produced by Lewis Merenstein & Michael Wendroff), which would influence rock bands in America, Europe and Africa for the next several generations.

Oscar Alemán

In the 1930s, having discovered American jazz via Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti, Alemán moved to Paris where he was hired by Josephine Baker to lead her band, the Baker Boys at the Cafe de Paris.