The smaller of the upstairs private dining rooms.

"The number of people who can pay a thousand francs per person [for a meal at Taillevent] is not very great. In general, at lunch, it is ninety-eight percent businessmen. In the evening, a few French, and wealthy foreigners. But the foreigners are there on business...they’re not paying their own way. So the restaurants at the highest level are in France are extremely endangered, because they’re too expensive. When I say ‘too expensive’ I don’t mean that the prices are too high relative to what they offer, but that they are too high relative to what most people can pay."

- François Cochet, quoted in A Meal Observed, p. 114