La Coupole, a Traditional French Brasserie

To satisfy our crave for the real seafood, we went to La Coupole, a traditional French brasserie with a long history since 1930's(!) La Coupole is located in the heart of Montparnasse; a busy area on the left bank. (You can easily spot where it is from wherever you are in Paris...see the tallest (ugly) building in the middle of nowhere? c'est la Tour Montparnasse.)
Anyway, the place is very grand (one of the biggest restaurants in Paris I would say) with a very French brasserie style of decoration. Lucky that we booked a table in advance, or else, walking in for lunch at 1pm here on the weekends might be a problem. The seafood was amazing - shrimps, sea snails, oysters, clams...We actually had too much which made us not want to have seafood for quite some time...I was planning to end the course with a crème brulée, but my stomach disappointed me... as there was no room for anything anymore...

One cute thing about this place is that the staffs would gather around your table to sing Happy Birthday for you (tell them in advance to surprise your friend or family.) The happy service/staffs like this, we sure don't see too often in Paris.


102, Boulevard Montparnasse, 75014
Metro Vavin