Le Dôme Café

Le Dôme created and disseminated gossip and provided message exchanges and an 'over the table' market that dealt in artistic and literary futures.

[1] It was frequented by painters and sculptors of the School of Paris as well as writers, poets, models, art connoisseurs and dealers.

Le Dôme later became the gathering place of the American literary colony and became a focal point for artists residing in Paris's Left Bank.

Today, it is a top fish restaurant (the Michelin Guide once gave it one star), with a comfortably old-fashioned decor.

[2] The food writer Patricia Wells said, "I could dine at Le Dôme once a week, feasting on platters of briny oysters and their incomparable sole meunière.