The exhibit
Café de Paris was all about dazzling glamour and opulence. Holding over 700 people, the venue ran three separate bars — the Red Bar, the Blue Bar and the Fantasy Rooms VIP area — alongside the mezzanine and the main dance floor.
The award-winning restaurant opened Wednesday to Saturday from 6pm, final seating 9.30pm, accompanied by live cabaret — with drinking tables bookable on the mezzanine and in the downstairs VIP beside the dance floor. The musical output shifted with the night: from funk to disco house, hip hop to big beat.
February 2003 brought "Cafe Society", a Friday-night extravaganza designed to re-inject some much-needed glamour into London nightlife — fusing high-society chic with the venue’s jaw-dropping 1920s decor and cutting-edge sound and lighting.
Saturdays worked the room differently: the main floor for the chandelier-lit spectacle, then downstairs into the basement room — a late-hour, closer-quartered continuation where the FunkyElite crowd carried the night on after the cabaret had done its work.
“Café de Paris promises a supernova of sound, beauty, style and attitude.”