The regulars will be disoriented for four weeks: the Vienne restaurant is closing its doors to carry out work. A new room with a hundred seats is being created on the first floor of the house dating from 1904.
45 years following the opening of Vienne, Camille Otero, the boss, is still not resting on his laurels. This Monday, October 3, he closes his establishment for a month. The reason ? He undertakes major works to create a new room on the first floor of the restaurant.
The Vienna Grand Salon will be installed on the 1st floor of the house. This level, Camille Otero had sold it 35 years earlier. It previously housed the offices of the Bar Association. But the boss of Vienna bought it to expand its offer. In this room of 250 m2, already adorned with a large Catalan stained glass window, it will accommodate business dinners, family dinners, private meetings, openings, receptions and all other requests requiring a little privacy. In seated configuration, a hundred place settings can be deployed. The house will thus have a total capacity of more than 300 covers.
Construction of an elevator and toilets
A development that will have direct consequences on the ground floor of the Vienne. “We will create an elevator inside the restaurant, in front of the bar, which will lead directly to the 1st floor“, explains Camille Otero. The restaurateur is taking advantage of this installation to double the number of toilets. At the entrance to the Vienne, on the right, an opening will be made leading to a staircase also connecting this new room. “I hear gloom all over the place. Everyone says it’s all bad. Me, I choose to make these adjustments to try new things and move forward“, assures the entrepreneur.
A substantial investment for an amount of around €500,000, land purchase included. For the reopening, the restaurateur is still looking for additional arms. In total, 7 to 8 positions are still to be filled. “We have been looking for seven months“, confides the professional, somewhat tired. If, today, the Vienna team is made up of around thirty members, they were around forty before the Covid crisis.
