The modest Belle Epoque interior of the restaurant is basically unchanged for over 100 years, and the style of cooking remains that of the late 19th century.

Its tables have well-fed many writers, artists, Sorbonne University and Collège de France students, local residents and visitors to the neighborhood for over 175 years.

Hemingway refers glowingly to dinners he had at Le Polidor with artist and writer friends and his first wife Hadley Richardson in his book about Paris cultural life during the 1920s called A Moveable Feast.

Besides that, Polidor remains a popular restaurant on the Left Bank, particularly among students at the nearby University of Paris (Sorbonne) and Collège de France.

[3] In the Lee Child novel The Enemy, the protagonist, Jack Reacher, has dinner with his brother Joe and their French mother Josephine at Polidor.