"Easy food" for breakfast, French cuisine for lunch and dinner, smart apéritif and fashion evening.
Arthur's Rive Gauche, an excellent blend of Arthur's Club with the added feeling of being somewhere real.
Cosily situated between one loop of the Rhône and the street of the same name, we pan across a Middle European literary den, a Manhattan glamour bar, a high-class joint and the revamped chic of the apéritif à la française.
The decor is inspired from neo-baroque films, with a discreet collection of bench seats and armchairs, dark wooden walls fitted with compartments, and unobtrusive lighting. The newspaper hot off the press with your coffee at 7 AM, the tables set close to the picture window at the end of the afternoon, very "upper east side" and the bill doesn't get out of hand after dark. A Comédie Humaine: a genuine relaxed mix of creative image makers and business people, the intelligentsia, footsore strollers, Saturday beauties and smart young ladies. At the counter: the great escape with champagne cocktails, "dry" vermouths, vitaminized pick-me-ups and every conceivable tea...
(as seen by Vivianne Sca, Marie-Claire, September 98)
