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Le Restaurant du Musée d'Orsay

The Gare d'Orsay had a luxury hotel when it opened in 1900, and the hotel had a dining room. The station became a museum, and the dining room is still serving lunch.

The restaurant of the Musée d'Orsay, a gilded dining room with chandeliers, painted ceilings and tall windows.
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What it is
Museum restaurant
Opened
1900
Area
Inside the Musée d'Orsay
Nearest museum
Musée d'Orsay, 100 m

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    What Le Restaurant du Musée d'Orsay is known for

    1. The ceilings

      The ceiling of the great room was painted by Gabriel Ferrier and that of the room beside it by Benjamin Constant, both in 1900. With the chandeliers, the mirrors and the gilding, it is a listed historic monument.

    2. The windows

      Tall windows look over the Seine towards the Tuileries Garden and the Louvre on the other bank.

    3. In the museum

      The restaurant is inside the museum, so you need a museum ticket to reach it. Go at the start of the lunch service or late: in the middle of it there is a wait.

    What to know

    • The dining room of the hotel of the Gare d'Orsay, opened in 1900
    • Listed as a historic monument
    • Reached with a ticket to the museum

    Where Le Restaurant du Musée d'Orsay is

    Address

    Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
    75007 Paris, France

    Nearest station

    Solférino, on line 12, or Musée d'Orsay, on RER C

    Museums and sights nearby

    Distances are in a straight line from the restaurant.

    A hotel dining room that outlived its hotel

    The Orsay station was built for the Universal Exhibition of 1900, with a hotel of several hundred rooms along its front. The hotel closed in 1973, and the station was saved from demolition and turned into the museum that opened in 1986.

    The dining room was kept as it was. It is one of the few places in Paris where you can eat an ordinary lunch in a room of that size and that decoration, and then walk straight out among the Impressionists.

    Le Restaurant du Musée d'Orsay: common questions

    Where is Le Restaurant du Musée d'Orsay?
    At Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, inside the Musée d'Orsay. The nearest station is Solférino, on line 12, or Musée d'Orsay, on RER C.
    Which museums and sights are near Le Restaurant du Musée d'Orsay?
    Musée d'Orsay is 100 m away, Musée de l'Orangerie is 450 m away, Louvre Museum is 900 m away. Distances are in a straight line from the restaurant.
    What is Le Restaurant du Musée d'Orsay known for?
    The ceilings, The windows, In the museum. Lunch under painted ceilings and chandeliers, in the dining room of the grand hotel of 1900 that was part of the Orsay railway station. It is inside the museum.
    When did Le Restaurant du Musée d'Orsay open?
    In 1900. The dining room of the hotel of the Gare d'Orsay, opened in 1900.

    What visitors say about Le Restaurant du Musée d'Orsay

    Rating from Google

    4.1

    1,378 ratings on Google

    Google's figures as read on 5 October 2026.

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