Welcome to the hottest meal ticket in Paris.
Debuting this Wednesday atop the Palais du Tokyo art museum, the Art Home restaurant has such a buzz that patrons paid thousands on eBay for opening night seats. For that kind of money, you’d think Jerry Lewis and Carla Bruni were singing duets! The price is for the exclusivity, though — this omakase-style restaurant will typically charge about $111 a seat for the 12 people lucky enough to nab a chair each night.
New Yorkers know the drill. Like the red-hot omakase meals in the Big Apple, would-be diners must submit their requests online at 10 a.m. one month in advance and hope the cyber-gods show favor on their keyboards. And you thought getting your daughter Miley Cyrus tickets was tough.
Now here’s the skinny on what makes Art Home the meal of the moment. Besides the allure of limited admittance, the makeshift restaurant — which was literally placed on top of the museum with a giant crane — will offer inspired cuisine set within an ultra-modern architectural room. The best features, though, are the sweeping panoramic views of Paris with the Eiffel Tower resting unobstructed within your sight lines. Imagine watching the sun set from this divine perch.
While it will likely be the rich getting the seats thanks to the tireless efforts of their personal assistants (or by purchasing seats through future auctions like the “Man on the Moon” dinner July 4), the restaurant wants to make sure everyone can at least experience a taste. Every day but Monday (when the museum is closed), Art Home offers free tours at 3:00 and 5:30 p.m. through a less-competitive online reservation system. That’s right, you even need a reservation to look inside!
The Palais du Tokyo arts museum is worth a visit on its own merits, but if you can land one of the 12 seats for dinner, you’ll truly be on top of the art world.
