Unique Private Dining and Event Space.
about this space
This exclusive gastronomic venue is available solely for private bookings. Designed for intimate gatherings, it caters to influential meals, premium activations, and unique experiences. The space is suitable for photo shoots, product launches, showrooms, and press days. The capacity for dining ranges from 20 to 30 guests, while cocktail events can accommodate 50 to 60 attendees. The venue features a glass-roofed area, an open professional kitchen, and a fully adaptable staging space. Amenities include Internet access, air conditioning, a security system, a stock room, counters, fitting rooms, garment racks, specialized lighting, furniture, sound and video equipment, electricity, heating, parking, an elevator, and Wi-Fi.
the fwv take
Book this address for the hosted press dinner or intimate editor lunch, because an open professional kitchen inside an 80 sqm private room lets you plate a real menu for 20 to 30 seated guests without importing catering infrastructure or swallowing a hotel's per-head minimum, and the same footprint flips to a 50 to 60 person cocktail reception the moment the tables clear.
What makes this space work for daytime content is the glass-roofed section, which pulls soft overhead daylight down into a basement loft volume so a brand shoot or press day preview reads bright with no street exposure and no passers-by in frame, while the stock room, counters, fitting rooms and garment racks cover the back-of-house that almost no private dining venue in Paris actually provides.
It suits established independent and mid-market houses rather than global maisons, typically three to ten years in with a working press list, operating in ready-to-wear with a fabric story, fine jewellery, leather goods, fragrance or skincare, and carrying a warm material-led aesthetic that can hold a conversation about craft and the table; technical sportswear, streetwear drops and anything needing a shopfront or clinical white cube should stay with street-level spaces in Paris.
In our experience the late-September and March windows fill first and the evening dinner slots inside them go fastest, so enquire eight to ten weeks ahead, raise kitchen access for an external chef and evening noise limits early given the residential envelope above, and confirm the lift and loading route before committing to any build, which is where our venue sourcing team routinely saves brands a wasted site visit.
what's included
- Internet
- Air Conditioning
- Security System
- Stock Room
- Counters
- Fitting Rooms
- Garment Rack
- Lighting
- Furniture
- Sound & Video Equipment
- Electricity
- Heating
- Parking
- Elevator
- Kitchen
- Wifi
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how to book this space
- 01
Check the shell and the dates
Review the gallery, 80 sqm floor plan and amenities for Unique Private Dining and Event Space, then note the window you want in Paris. Fashion week dates book 6–10 weeks out.
- 02
Send the brief
Use the request panel on this page to send your dates, expected footfall and budget. The listed rate is a starting point at €2400 per day.
- 03
Get availability and a quote
We confirm availability with the operator and come back within 24 hours with the all-in cost: rent, staffing, permits and fit-out for Paris.
- 04
Lock the contract
Sign the short-term licence, pay the deposit and we register any permit or signage paperwork the address needs.
- 05
Build and open
Fit-out, install and staff the pop-up. Our production team handles delivery, install and the strike at the end of the run in Paris.
use cases
location
what's around
2 stores within 600 m, incl. Short Cut, GiFi, Franprix
brands nearby
- beauty
- 2
- culture
- 3
- hotels
- 8
- cafés
- 12
- restaurants & bars
- 20
- other retail
- 15
- Chabrol Pressing50 m
- New Look Phone50 m
- Mâche50 m
- Vittoria70 m
- Léonie70 m
- Short Cut80 m
getting here & street life
nearest transit
- Poissonnièremetro150 m · 2 min
- Cadetmetro469 m · 6 min
- Gare de l'Estmetro504 m · 6 min
- Gare du Nord (Métro)metro559 m · 7 min
- Château d'Eaumetro564 m · 7 min
- Bonne Nouvellemetro695 m · 9 min
street activity
high footfall.
20 places within 200 m · 17 stores · 32 cafés and restaurants · pedestrianised street
- within 200 m
- 20
- within 400 m
- 60
- within 600 m
- 60
the neighbourhood
The Place du 8 Novembre 1942 is a public square located in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, at the intersection of the Rue La Fayette and the Rue de Chabrol, and limited by the Rue du Faubourg Poissonnière.
- Rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière · 164 m
- Poissonnière station · 197 m
- Rue La Fayette · 211 m
- Beit Haverim · 212 m
- Rue d'Abbeville · 229 m
frequently asked
Yes — Unique Private Dining and Event Space is a vetted pop-up ready space in Paris, 80 sqm. Request availability and dates through the inquiry card on the listing.
who it suits
Brand Scale
This space fits established independent and mid-market brands with a 10 to 40 person team, 3 to 10 years of trading, and a press list or wholesale book already in place. At 80 sqm with seated dining for 20 to 30 and cocktail capacity of 50 to 60, the economics only make sense when your guest list is curated rather than open, which means you need a communications or sales function capable of filling a room by invitation. The professional open kitchen, stock room, fitting rooms and garment racks mean a small team of three to five people can run a full day of appointments and an evening dinner without external infrastructure. Where we see mismatches is when a first-season brand with no press contacts books a private venue at this tier and ends up hosting fifteen people in a room built for a hosted moment, or when a global house needs 300 guests through the door and outgrows the capacity within an hour. Brands needing volume footfall should be looking at street-level spaces in Paris instead.
Aesthetic Fit
Brands with a warm, material-led, quietly luxurious identity work best here. The glass-roofed area and basement loft volume give you daylight without street exposure, which suits ready-to-wear with a strong fabric story, fine jewellery, leather goods, fragrance, skincare and any brand whose narrative involves craft, provenance or the table. Because the open kitchen is a permanent architectural feature, the food and hospitality element becomes part of your brand presentation space whether you plan for it or not, so brands that can speak to taste, ritual and gathering get the most from the room. What does not work is high-gloss technical sportswear, hard streetwear drops, or any pop-up concept that depends on clinical white-cube neutrality or full-height window graphics. Equally, brands wanting a raw industrial shell to overwrite entirely will be fighting the existing finish, and a heavy scenographic overlay here needs proper concept and direction to avoid reading as two competing identities in one 80 sqm room.
Best Use Cases
First choice is the press dinner or editor lunch, because the open professional kitchen and 20 to 30 seat dining capacity are built for exactly the hosted, intimate format that Paris press respond to. Second is the press day and collection preview, where fitting rooms, garment racks, counters and a stock room let you run back-to-back appointments and store product securely between sessions. Third is the wholesale appointment and showroom rental use, with the private-booking model giving buyers a closed environment during market weeks and Poissonnière two minutes on foot. Fourth is the product launch and cocktail reception, using the 50 to 60 standing capacity with sound and video equipment already installed. Fifth is the photo shoot or content studio day, where the glass roof gives usable daylight and the kitchen doubles as a set. Sixth is a private VIP or client event tied to a wider fashion week venue programme. Lowest fit is a public pop-up shop or sample sale space, since this is a private-access basement without shopfront visibility.
Budget Signal
This sits in the upper-mid tier for the 10th arrondissement and reads as good value against comparable hosted venues in the 1st, 2nd or 8th. You are paying for a fully equipped private venue rather than empty square metres, and that distinction matters: lighting, furniture, sound and video, air conditioning, security, kitchen and back-of-house are already in place, which removes a build line that would otherwise sit on top of a bare short-term commercial space. Against a hotel event space of similar capacity you gain exclusivity and a kitchen you can hand to your own chef, without the per-head catering minimums hotels typically impose. Against co-working or shared pop-up formats you gain control, privacy and a room that reads as your brand rather than a neutral rental. Against a prime Marais or Saint-Honoré retail unit you lose street footfall but pay materially less for a comparable guest experience. In our experience brands at this stage typically find the total activation cost lands lower than expected once build is stripped out, and running the numbers through our budget calculator makes that gap visible before you enquire.
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