Café Anglais

Opened in 1802, the restaurant was named in honor of the Treaty of Amiens, a peace accord signed between Britain and France.

In the beginning, its clientele were coachmen and domestic servants but it later became frequented by actors and patrons of the nearby Opera House.

Although the white-faced exterior was austere, the interior was elaborately decorated with furniture in mahogany and walnut woods, and mirrors of gold leaf patina.

[2] He also composed the menu called the "Three Emperors Dinner" in honor of Tsar Alexander II, Kaiser Wilhelm I and Otto von Bismarck for the Exposition Universelle in 1867 in Paris.

It is also mentioned in Henry James’, The American, chapter one (Christopher Newman “supped” there the night before visiting the Louvre).