Le Dôme Café

Le Dôme Café (French pronunciation: ​[lə dom]) or Café du Dôme is a restaurant in Montparnasse, Paris. From the beginning of the 1900s, it was renowned as an intellectual gathering place. It was widely known as "the Anglo-American café."

This article is about the restaurant in Paris. For the restaurant chain based in Australia, see Dôme (coffeehouse).

Café du Dôme in 2006

Opening in 1898, it was the first such café in Montparnasse. It "created and disseminated gossip, and provided message exchanges and an 'over the table' market that dealt in artistic and literary futures."[1] It was frequented by the famous (and soon to be famous) painters, sculptors, writers, poets, models, art connoisseurs and dealers. Le Dôme later became the gathering place of the American literary colony and became a focal point for artists residing in Paris's Left Bank.

A poor artist used to be able to get a Saucisse de Toulouse and a plate of mashed potatoes for $1. Today, it is a top fish restaurant (the Michelin Guide once gave it one star), with a comfortably old-fashioned decor.[2] The food writer Patricia Wells said, "I could dine at Le Dôme once a week, feasting on platters of briny oysters and their incomparable sole meunière."[3]

Address
Le Dôme Café in the 20th century

108 bd. Montparnasse, Paris, 75014
Closest Métro: Vavin

Dômiers

The term Dômiers was coined to refer to the international group of visual, and literary artists who gathered at the Café du Dôme, including:

Literature

References
  1. Mark King, "Memories of Paris", Artist Mark King Website
  2. Friedrich, Otto, Time (21 May 1990). "The Great Cafes of Paris". Archived from the original on 30 September 2007.
  3. "At Home with Patricia Wells" Archived 5 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Patricia Wells website
  4. "Shownotes: Eve's Tearoom Part 2 — Queer Ephemera". www.queerephemera.com. Archived from the original on 17 March 2020.
  5. washburn.edu Day Seven
  6. Royal Academy of Arts Summer 2006: Naked ambition, Modigliani Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  7. Hemingway in Paris
  8. sacred-texts.com John St. John, The Record of the Magical Retirement of G. H. Frater, O.'. M.'.

9. In the Season 2, Episode 1 podcast Once Upon a Time...at Bennington College, Le Dôme Café is referenced as an iconic hangout for anglophone expats,though it is not clear if any of the Class of '86 Bennington group ever visited the cafe.

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