L'Opéra restaurant

Lack of funds prevented the realization of the plan, and also two attempts in the 20th century to open a restaurant there, by composer Rolf Liebermann in 1973 and by businessman Pierre Bergé in 1992.

In summer 2008 the proposal by Pierre François Blanc was accepted, with the restaurant being granted a 20-year lease by the National Commission of Historic Monuments.

[9] The restaurant is located behind the east facade of the opera house, within a porte cochère at the base of the Rotonde du Glacier which was designed for patrons arriving by carriage.

[3][10] The building is a historic monument, so the architect was required to create the restaurant in a reversible manner, without contact with the original walls, pillars, and other stone structural elements and without concealing the pendant keystone of the domed ceiling above.

Decq furnished the restaurant in modern style, with bright red upholstery contrasting with the white hull, which curves up to form the handrail on the stairs and around the mezzanine.