Café de L'Enfer

[manningkrull]

If I had a date and a time machine, I'd take her and it to le Café de L'Enfer.

Comments

[splendidgeek]

Utterly fantastic.

[splendidgeek]

What is currently at this location?

[manningkrull]

I wish I knew the precise address. One of the better links I found confirmed that it was on the Boulevard de Clichy, near Place Blanche, and that's exactly where the Moulin Rouge and a million other clubs and cafes are. My neighborhood has been touristy for well over a hundred years. I might go take a walk around and see if I can recognize any of the roofs or other structures in the photos, but I kind of doubt it. You know, I just checked and saw that that last photo with the cop was allegedy taken in 1952, so maybe some (non-monstrous) part of the surroundings are still intact.

[prelati]

Cheers for that - fascinating!

[manningkrull]

Seriously. It is perhaps the fascinatingest.

[sirtobybelch]

That is so cool, I'm agree with you this would be such a cool place to hang out in. Wouldn't it be cool if this place still existed and you could buy it, that would be sweet.

[manningkrull]

We do have a corny goth bar called Kata Bar right down the street, with bad rubber gargoyles and other assorted Halloween/Hot Topic props, but somehow it's just not the same...

[icecreamcity]

i wish places like that were still around.
someone (with money and good taste) ought to make a new cafe very similar.. i'd go..

[prisbatty]

well
there is jeckyl and hyde in ny
oh wait, you said money
AND taste...
J n H is kitchy...

[icecreamcity]

ooh.. kitschy is good!
i guess i worded it wrong
i mean, not crap decorations found from a party store during halloween, or hot topic :P