Restaurant Pharamond

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History

This restaurant, specializing in tripe, is the last representative of this type of restaurant, whose decoration in ceramics, mirrors in glass paste is due to the workshop Picard et Cie. Although claiming an antiquity dating back to 1832, Alexandre Pharamond, of Norman origin, did not serve his first tripes until 1877. Under the sign of La petite Normande, the restaurant was entirely redecorated on the occasion of the Universal Exposition of 1900. It comprises on the ground floor a large room in length at the back of which a small spiral staircase gives access to the smaller room on the first floor. The top floor consists of four small adjoining rooms, one of which forms a storeroom. The decoration of mirrors and glass-paste painted panels features an iconography evoking the culinary specialty of the house, tripes à la mode de Caen. The street-facing façade, in imitation of Norman timber framing, would date from the 1930s, and incorporates a faïence plaque showing a pretty Norman woman in festival costume, presumably originally the source of the name of the establishment at the end of the last century.