Since 1986, La Tour d'Argent has been a recipient of the Wine Spectator Grand Award. In 1984, a branch was opened in Tokyo, in the Hotel New Otani.
It was operated first by André Terrail, then by his son Claude, who died in 2006 at the age of 88, and then by Claude's son André. In 1912, the Terrail family bought the restaurant. A dinner was held there for the Wright Brothers in 1906. The restaurant was owned in the 1890s and 1900s by Frédéric Delair, who began the tradition of presenting a numbered certificate to each person who ate the restaurant's signature dish, pressed duck. Facing a swimming school, which has the advantage of not yet being encumbered and imprisoned by all the filth of Paris." In 1852, a metals dealer occupied number 15 Quai de la Tournelle, and a hairdresser and wood dealer number 17.īaedeker's 1860 guide to Paris describes the establishment's current location as "out of the way", while mentioning a restaurant associated with a low-cost "Hotel of the Tour d'Argent": "Between Notre Dame and the jardin des Plantes, on the Quai de la Tournelle, facing the bridge of this name, there is a little hotel and the restaurant Lecoq Hôtel de la Tour d'argent, a bit out of the way, it is true, but well kept and cheap (room, 2 francs, beefsteak, 1 franc). The restaurant does not appear in an 1824 list of "The principal restaurants, who are distinguished by the elegance of the decoration of their salons and by the number and the care taken with the dishes found there.". The Quai de la Tournelle, where the restaurant stands, was not paved until 1650, before which it was "a slope, often flooded and almost always made inaccessible by mud". The restaurant claims that it was founded in 1582, and that it was frequented by Henri IV, but it offers no documentation to support these or other claims about its history. It has a rating of one star from the Guide Michelin. It is located at 15 quai de la Tournelle. La Tour d'Argent (English: The Silver Tower) is a historic restaurant in Paris, France.
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