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A tall stone building on the river bank with a restaurant glazed along its top floor
La Tour d’Argent seen from the Seine, Paris. Tangopaso · Public domain

Ratatouille

  • EntréeA kitchen or a dining room that shaped the film.
  • PlatA ride built from the film.
  • DessertHow the evening ends.

The film is set in a Paris that was never filmed. These seven places are where it was researched, what inspired it, the rides built from it and where it premiered. The plate shows La Tour d’Argent from the Seine.

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The kitchens behind the film

Who is Gusteau?

The film’s great cook was built from real chefs, and its makers went and ate in real dining rooms.

The front of a long, low hotel-restaurant on a quiet street in Saulieu
La Côte d’Or in Saulieu, the restaurant run by Bernard Loiseau, July 2013. 0x010C · CC BY-SA 3.0

Saulieu, Burgundy

La Côte d’Or, Saulieu

Wikipedia’s Loiseau article names Loiseau and Paul Bocuse as the partial models for Gusteau.

Wikipedia’s film article says Brad Bird and others visited La Côte d’Or in France during their research trip. It says the chef Gusteau was partly inspired by Bernard Loiseau, whose restaurant was rumoured to be losing a Michelin star.

Claude Verger bought the restaurant in 1975 and made Loiseau its chef. Loiseau bought it from Verger in 1982. The Michelin Guide gave it three stars in 1991. As of 2021 it held two, under the executive chef Patrick Bertron.

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A two-storey stone cottage restaurant behind a garden of flowers
The French Laundry, Yountville, California, October 2006. Peter Bond · CC BY-SA 2.0

Yountville, California

The French Laundry

Wikipedia’s film article says the producer Brad Lewis interned in the kitchen of Thomas Keller’s French Laundry.

It also says animators took cooking classes in the San Francisco area to learn how a commercial kitchen works.

Sally Schmitt opened the restaurant in 1978 in a building dating to the 1890s. Thomas Keller bought it from her and her husband Don in 1994.

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Prix fixe

Set your table

Choose one real place for each course. Each plate comes with what its sources say. The Tour d’Argent numbers its ducks; this table only counts kilometres.

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Entrée A kitchen or a dining room that shaped the film.

Plat A ride built from the film.

Dessert How the evening ends.

The table is bare. Choose an entrée to begin.

An empty plate.

Pick a place above and it is served here.

La Tour d’Argent

La Tour d’Argent

Quai de la Tournelle, Paris

The Left Bank restaurant Wikipedia says inspired scenes in the film. Its own site takes bookings for the restaurant, bar and roof. Pictured: seen from the Seine.

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A Parisian-style restaurant frontage with a sign and awnings, set in a theme-park plaza
The façade of the Ratatouille attraction at Disneyland Paris, December 2017. Gonzabar77 · CC BY-SA 4.0

The ride

Gusteau’s is a building now

The outside is Gusteau’s restaurant, surrounded by buildings of a Parisian plaza.

It was inaugurated on 21 June 2014 and opened to the public on 10 July 2014. It is a trackless dark ride with rat-shaped vehicles and 3D dome segments.

It opened on 1 October 2021, delayed from 2020 by the pandemic and timed to Walt Disney World’s 50th anniversary. It uses the same trackless ride system as Rise of the Resistance and Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway.

Walt Disney Imagineering designed it. Wikipedia gives an estimated budget of US$150 to 240 million.

Inside the park: a park ticket is needed. The ride is in the Worlds of Pixar area.

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L’addition

Go and find the places

La Tour d’Argent, La Côte d’Or and the French Laundry take bookings. The Disneyland Paris and Epcot rides need a park ticket, the Dolby has tours, and the Seine is free to walk beside.

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Where it is now

7 places you can visit in France, California, Florida and Hollywood. None is a filming location: the film was animated.

Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.

  • Building reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working restaurant on the Left Bank. Book through its own site; the riverside quay outside is public.

  • Building reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working hotel-restaurant in Saulieu, a small Burgundy town. Book ahead; the street frontage can be seen from the pavement.

  • Area reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Public riverbank and bridge. No scene is tied to this exact spot; it stands for the river the film’s Paris is built round.

  1. A tall stone building on the river bank with a restaurant glazed along its top floor
    La Tour d’Argent seen from the Seine, Paris. Tangopaso · Public domain

    Paris and Burgundy · 15 Quai de la Tournelle, 5th arrondissement, Paris

    La Tour d’Argent

    Wikipedia says the restaurant inspired scenes in the 2007 Pixar film Ratatouille and got an unexpected boost from it.

    A working restaurant on the Left Bank. Book through its own site; the riverside quay outside is public.

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  2. The front of a long, low hotel-restaurant on a quiet street in Saulieu
    La Côte d’Or in Saulieu, the restaurant run by Bernard Loiseau, July 2013. 0x010C · CC BY-SA 3.0

    Paris and Burgundy · 2 Avenue Bernard Loiseau, Saulieu, Côte-d’Or, France

    La Côte d’Or, Saulieu

    Wikipedia’s film article says Brad Bird and others visited La Côte d’Or in France during their research trip.

    A working hotel-restaurant in Saulieu, a small Burgundy town. Book ahead; the street frontage can be seen from the pavement.

    Sources
  3. A grey stone bridge over the Seine with the towers of Notre-Dame beyond
    The Seine at Pont au Double with Notre-Dame behind, January 2016. A river view, not a film location. Guilhem Vellut · CC BY 2.0

    Paris and Burgundy · The river by Pont au Double, Paris

    The Seine at Notre-Dame

    Wikipedia says the film is set mostly in Paris.

    Public riverbank and bridge. No scene is tied to this exact spot; it stands for the river the film’s Paris is built round.

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Stay

A room on the boulevard.

A Hollywood hotel near the theatre where the film premiered.

The Hollywood Roosevelt

The Hollywood Roosevelt

Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles

A 1927 hotel on Hollywood Boulevard, near the theatre where the film premiered in 2007. Pictured: the Kodak Theatre complex, 2008.

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Go there

A table, a tour, a walk.

The Left Bank restaurant, a theatre tour, Paris food walks and Disneyland Paris tickets.

La Tour d’Argent

La Tour d’Argent

Quai de la Tournelle, Paris

The Left Bank restaurant Wikipedia says inspired scenes in the film. Its own site takes bookings for the restaurant, bar and roof. Pictured: seen from the Seine.

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Dolby Theatre

Dolby Theatre tour

Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles

Guided tours of the theatre that was the Kodak Theatre when the film premiered there. Check the schedule for days and times.

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Paris

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Chessy, near Paris

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What’s on

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The archive

Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.

7 of 7 places · 8 of 8 stories

  • La Tour d’Argent

    15 Quai de la Tournelle, 5th arrondissement, Paris

    • The river-view dining room

      La Tour d’Argent inspires scenes in the film.

  • La Côte d’Or, Saulieu

    2 Avenue Bernard Loiseau, Saulieu, Côte-d’Or, France

    • Gusteau’s models

      Gusteau is partly modelled on Bernard Loiseau and Paul Bocuse; Brad Bird visits Loiseau’s restaurant while researching.

  • The French Laundry

    6640 Washington Street, Yountville, California

    • In Keller’s kitchen

      Producer Brad Lewis interns in the kitchen of the French Laundry.

  • Ratatouille ride, Disneyland Paris

    Worlds of Pixar, Disney Adventure World (formerly Walt Disney Studios Park), Chessy

    • The Paris ride

      Remy’s ride opens at Disneyland Paris, with Gusteau’s as its front.

  • Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure, Epcot

    France Pavilion, World Showcase, Epcot, Walt Disney World, Florida

    • The Florida ride

      The Epcot version opens in the France Pavilion on 1 October 2021.

  • Kodak Theatre, now the Dolby

    6801 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles

    • The premiere

      The film premieres at the Kodak Theatre on 22 June 2007.

  • The Seine at Notre-Dame

    The river by Pont au Double, Paris

    • A week in Paris

      Bird, Brad Lewis and some of the crew spend a week in Paris on a motorcycle tour, eating at five top restaurants.

    • Into the Seine

      Linguini jumps into the Seine to fetch Remy.

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  • The Pont de Bir-Hakeim and the 16th arrondissement at night · Daniel Vorndran / DXR · CC BY-SA 3.0
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