A short walk from the Champs-Élysées, Dragons Élysées is unlike a conventional Chinese restaurant: part of the floor serves as an aquarium, allowing you to dine while watching koi carp beneath your feet. The aquatic setting is central to the experience and accompanies traditional Chinese cuisine, particularly Peking cuisine, supplemented by a few Thai dishes.
Dinner above the aquariums
The venue's distinctive feature is immediately visible in the dining room: the pools are built beneath the floor and fish swim under the tables. This arrangement makes Dragons Élysées particularly suited to an unusual dinner as a couple, with friends or with family.
What is on the menu?
The restaurant particularly highlights its Peking duck, one of its longstanding specialities. It has been on rue de Berri for more than 30 years and serves both lunch and dinner.
When to go?
The restaurant advertises opening every day, from 11:00 to 15:00 and then from 18:30 to 23:30. It is at 11 rue de Berri, close to George V, Charles-de-Gaulle-Étoile and Franklin D. Roosevelt stations.
What really distinguishes Dragons Élysées is therefore less a decorative setting around the tables than an architectural feature of the restaurant: you literally eat above the fish.
