Cabaret du Ciel

The two operations took advantage of their proximity and enhanced it further by taking radically different approaches on their exterior design.

[6] Inside the restaurant, beer was served, and the customers were greeted by acts such as angels playing music, St. Peter sprinkling holy water from the heavens, as well as reenactments of scenes related to Dante's Inferno.

The patrons formed a line, as they approached the statue of the animal, bowing and making the sign of the cross before it.

[7] Trevor Greenwood, a British serviceman stationed in Paris in 1945, provides a detailed description of a visit he made to the Cabaret du Ciel in its final years.

Close to the bell was a banner-pole, with a silver coloured effigy of a bull mounted on top… The whole place reeked of something sinister… and the general effect was the very essence of tawdriness."