Everyday, Ô Chateau offers several great wine tasting options that are both fun and informative. Be our guest for one or more of our tasting experiences- a wine and cheese lunch, a full dinner service or even a day trip or river cruise.  Each tasting is presented in English by an energetic and passionate sommelier who will guide you through each wine and gladly answer any questions you may have.

You’ll learn, taste, laugh and have fun, all while resting your feet from all the Paris walking you’ve done.

Just 5 minutes from the Louvre in a beautiful setting, come join us and experience wine in a whole new way! Make your reservations now!

Details and reservations >>

Everyday, Ô Chateau offers several great wine tasting options that are both fun and informative. Be our guest for one or more of our tasting experiences- a wine and cheese lunch, a full dinner service or even a day trip or river cruise.  Each tasting is presented in English by an energetic and passionate sommelier who will guide you through each wine and gladly answer any questions you may have.

You’ll learn, taste, laugh and have fun, all while resting your feet from all the Paris walking you’ve done.

Just 5 minutes from the Louvre in a beautiful setting, come join us and experience wine in a whole new way! Make your reservations now!

Details and reservations >>

O Chateau Valentine’s Dinner
75 euros/person
(13 euros extra for the Cheese course option)
- Entrée -
Poached salmon and ginger
Wine pairing : Vouvray 2009 – Clos Baudouin – François Chidaine
- Plat -
Pink veal, cream and tomato risotto, asparagus and bacon
Wine pairing : Vosne Romanée 2008 – Domaine des Perdrix
- Cheese -
(option)
Truffled Brie, Comté and Aged Saint Nectaire
Wine pairing : Crozes Hermitage 2009 – Clos des Grives – Domaine Combier
- Dessert -
Chocolate Strawberries
Wine pairing : Champagne Rosé – Eric Phélizon

Our whole place will be dedicated to love that night, but we will have a limited seating. So make sure to book your spaces in advance !
The service will have 2 settings : first one starting at 7PM, and second one at 9PM…. but feel free to join us before at the bar to experiment our special Rose Cocktail, or maybe just a glass or Champagne.

For booking shoot us an email at reservation@o-chateau.com with you name, contact phone, number of people attending the dinner and your preferred time of arrival. You can also give us a call : 0033 (0) 1 44 73 97 80.

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If you are in Paris on Saturday, December 10th, this night will the unique opportunity to have a great French dinner. For the first time at O Chateau, we are organizing a very special night dedicated only to Champagne. We created this experience for people willing to treat themselves with a different experience, and of course, willing to learn about Champagne!

>> More details and Reservations on that page >>

(and you may even try some Beaujolais Nouveau if you really want to!!)

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For Parisians, it is the City of Relationships. Every Parisian is in a relationship. That relationship is more or less official, more or less successful, but it always is. Consequently, there is simply no singles scene in Paris. If sexual tension is what makes a city fun, Paris has officially become the most boring city in the world.

All young Parisians are in relationships. For them, the main reason to be in a relationship is simply not to be single. Most young Parisians are averse to life: they see most things as threats, most risks as primarily dangerous, most singular paths as awfully unsafe. Danger for them is around every corner. They view relationships are round little things with no threatening corners; the threats of a relationship they feel they master and choose—this feeling is a reassuring one. Therefore their relationships are long-lasting ones. Not quite good enough to get married, not quite bad enough to break up.

Being single after the age of twenty-six is the clear indication of a troubled mind. If not a troublemaker, that person has got to be a trouble seeker. While the English language has the good taste of distinguishing “alone” from “lonely,” French only offers seul. Not being in a relationship means being seul. The threatening shadows of loneliness, only darkened by the local inexistence of celibacy.

Most surrounding elements create the perfect scenario for a life of romantic dissatisfaction: absence of a singles scene leads to sticking with the wrong person, which itself leads to many a frustration, which inevitably—in a nonreligious city—leads to divorces and breakups a few years down the road. Older Parisian men who still have a form of moral and religious grounding do nonetheless stick with their spouses (unless it is the other way around). They like to flirt and compliment beautiful women—which usually amuses the French and shocks foreigners. That charming France—sadly—is vanishing.

Courting is no longer a Parisian habit. The only way Parisian men like to play it is safe. Parisian women on the other hand, caught in the double obligation to be neither sluts nor single, become undesirable. Absence of flirtation becomes the norm after the age of twenty-six.

Curtains closed.

The dry local environment inhibits natures and ambitions. Ironically enough, as Parisians are more and more in relationships, they become less and less likable. Which, needless to say, makes them stick to their relationships even more.

Useful tip: If you have a vague fantasy about Parisians, rest assured, the few that do not follow the pattern explained above usually end up with foreigners. Those are the wise ones.

Sound like a Parisian: “Ils sont ensemble depuis cinq ans. . . . Ouais, ça se passe bien je crois. . . . Non, ils sont pas mariés, non non.”

If you like this blog, you can support it by getting Olivier’s book: Stuff Parisians Like. It is available online….Olivier can also sign your own copy at at O Chateau…