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MAREAMEDITERRANEAN DINING & BAR

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The dining room at night — marble tables, navy velvet chairs, a mature olive tree by the window and the city lights beyond — illustrative AI-generated demo image.

PARIS · DEUXIÈME

MAREA

A dining room and a bar,
held to the same standard.

The fish comes up from Sète overnight. Tonight's board is written at ten.

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A fictional Vlavera restaurant demonstration.Reservation buttons can link to the service you already use.

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THE TIDE

Marea means tide.

The kitchen is Mallorcan. The building is not.

It is the only honest name for a kitchen that does not know on Monday what it will serve on Thursday.

Six or seven things are landed at Sète and Port-Vendres in the afternoon and are in the kitchen by six the next morning, and they decide the middle of the menu. The ends stay fixed — the bread, the olives cured in the cellar, the almond tart that has not changed since we opened.

Everything else is written on a board by ten in the morning, which is why we will not print you a menu to take home.

05:00

at Rungis, and the coast van is in

10:00

the board is written

19:00

vermut, and the room opens

Raw scallops dressed with herb oil, capers, peas and edible flowers on a matt black plate — illustrative AI-generated demo image. — Wednesday: scallops from the coast van, raw, with peas and capers. Gone by Thursday.

DINING · 19:00 — 23:30

The room.

Thirty-four covers, one seating a night on the marble tables and two at the bar counter. Four courses or à la carte — the kitchen would rather you took the four.

The back room at night — burgundy velvet chairs, marble tables, olive branches and the lit city through tall windows — illustrative AI-generated demo image. — The back room takes six tables and the same menu. It is the one we give you if you ask for quiet.

Tonight's board

Friday 28 August

Written at ten this morning, after the coast van.

THE MIDDLE · CHANGES

THE ENDS · DO NOT

Menú de marea

€78

Four courses off the board, chosen by the kitchen. It is the whole point of coming, and it is what we would rather you ordered.

The middle changes most days. The ends do not. If you want to know what will be on it next Thursday — so do we.

FOUR OF TONIGHT'S SEVEN

Line-caught sea bass, skin crisped, with cauliflower purée, saffron, citrus and herb oil on dark ceramic — illustrative AI-generated demo image. — Lubina de anzuelo

Three raw red prawns, heads on, on coarse sea salt and oil on a matt black plate — illustrative AI-generated demo image. — Gambas rojas

Cuttlefish slow-cooked with onion in its own ink, glossy and near black, on a matt black plate — illustrative AI-generated demo image. — Sepia amb ceba

Pale bonito in escabeche with red onion and bay leaves on a matt black plate — illustrative AI-generated demo image. — Bonito en escabeche

The photographs change with the board. If a plate is not here, it is because it was not landed.

THE ENDS · ALWAYS HERE

Two slices of dark country bread rubbed with tomato, olive oil pooling on a matt black plate — illustrative AI-generated demo image. — Pa amb oli

A small dark bowl of green and black olives in oil with a bay leaf, on a matt black plate — illustrative AI-generated demo image. — Olives from the celler

Five silver anchovy fillets laid across cold butter on a slice of bread, on a matt black plate — illustrative AI-generated demo image. — Anchovies on butter

Coarsely chopped tomato, green pepper and white onion dressed with oil and pepper, on a matt black plate — illustrative AI-generated demo image. — Trampó

A wedge of almond tart, flaked almonds and icing sugar, on a matt black plate — illustrative AI-generated demo image. — Gató d'ametla

These five do not change, and have not since we opened.

The marble bar counter at night, brass fittings and backlit spirits, zinc roofs and chimney pots through the window behind — illustrative AI-generated demo image.

BAR · 19:00 — 02:00

Not a waiting room.

Fourteen stools, its own short menu, and it keeps going two hours after the kitchen closes. You can spend the whole evening here and never take a table — a good many regulars do.

No reservations at the bar. If the stools are full, the vermut is just as good standing up.

THE SALON · TEN TO FOURTEEN

One floor up, one table.

The salon has its own stair off the courtyard, so nobody walks your party through the dining room to get to it. Boiserie, a marble chimneypiece, and the roofs of the deuxième out of the window. The fire is laid from October.

Same board as downstairs — four courses, or everything at once. Tell us which when you write.

ASK ABOUT THE SALON

The private salon at dusk — one long table laid for twelve, burgundy chairs, boiserie and a marble chimneypiece, zinc roofs and chimney pots through the tall window — illustrative AI-generated demo image.

EL CELLER · THURSDAY TO SATURDAY · 23:00 — 04:00

Downstairs, they move the tables.

A celler is what a Mallorcan calls the room under the house where the wine is. This one is under a Paris street.

Stone vaults, a low ceiling, eighty people and no seating to speak of once it fills. It opens at eleven, once the last of the four courses has gone up and the floor down here has just been cleared.

Two horns, a pair of turntables and somebody who has thought about the order. No booth, no list, no requests. The bar comes down from upstairs at half past two and the room goes until four, or until it doesn't.

and then the door holds

04:00

Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Free

no cover, no bookings

The way in is the green door in the courtyard, not through the restaurant — a dining room with a queue running through it is not a dining room. If you ate with us that evening, tell whoever is on the door and you are already in.

Nobody under twenty-one, and we would rather you did not arrive in a large group.

VISIT

Rue Saint-Marc.

Between the Bourse and Montorgueil, four minutes on foot from Grands Boulevards. You will see the chandelier before you see the name — the frontage is all glass and the room is lit from six.

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Reservation and phone buttons are demonstrations — replaced with the restaurant’s real contact links before launch.

ADDRESS14 rue Saint-Marc
75002 Paris

DININGTuesday to Saturday, 19:00 – 23:30
One seating a night

BARTuesday to Saturday, 19:00 – 02:00
Walk in only

EL CELLERThursday to Saturday, 23:00 – 04:00
The green door in the courtyard

CLOSEDSunday and Monday
and the last two weeks of January

Placeholder address and number — replaced with the real ones before launch.

The full frontage at dusk — tall glazed windows under Haussmann stone, chandeliers and laid tables visible through the glass, street lamps lit along the empty pavement — illustrative AI-generated demo image.

FINDING IT

There is no sign, and there does not need to be.

The name is etched small on the right-hand door at eye height. Everything else is the light — from the pavement you can see straight through to the bar at the back, the only advertisement the building has ever needed.