At first glance, Doobie’s might seem like another discreet Parisian address. Then the door opens, and the mood changes. Behind the enigmatic façade of 26 Rue Marbeuf, in the Triangle d’Or, the 400-square-meter space unfolds less like a restaurant than the private apartment of an imagined, well-traveled collector—a place filled with memories, art, richly tactile materials and rooms that seem to have evolved over time.
The concept is rooted in the building’s long history. Originally opened as a Russian restaurant in 1938, the address spent decades as a quietly cherished dining room before becoming part of Paris’s nightlife in the 1970s and, from 1993, Doobie’s. After three years of transformation, it returns in 2026 with its past woven into a more residential, atmospheric identity.
Architect Arnaud Behzadi has imagined the interiors as a house rather than a conventional hospitality venue. La Rotonde forms its social heart, while the Grand Salon, Jardin du Soir, Retour de Voyage and Petit Salon each establish their own rhythm. The spaces become progressively more intimate, allowing lunch, dinner and late-night drinks to unfold almost like different chapters of the same evening.
The material palette is deliberately layered and never overly polished: lacquered mahogany, burr wood and stained oak meet muted gold and nickel, black surfaces with orange veining, garnet velvet and the sage green of a garden. Nothing is intended to look newly installed. Instead, the interiors suggest the accumulated taste of someone who has traveled, collected and lived among beautiful things for years.
Art is equally central to the experience. Works selected with Galerie Strouk accompany guests from room to room, engaging directly with the architecture, objects and materials rather than functioning as decoration alone. The effect is that of a private collection gradually revealing itself as you move through the house.
At the Jardin du Soir, a glass wall opens a view onto the kitchen, turning cooking into part of the evening’s theater. Elsewhere, the Petit Salon offers a hushed setting for lingering conversations, while the night bar shifts the atmosphere once dinner is over. Music becomes part of the architecture of the evening, moving from 1990s R&B to Chicago house and giving the interiors an entirely different energy after dark.
Restaurant, salon, bar and nocturnal gathering place.
Architecture + Interior
Arnaud Behzadi
Design
Art selection by Galerie Strouk
