Share this article

Absinthe, anarchy and haute cuisine: The Lost Estate lifts the curtain on Chat Noir! – its most ambitious immersive spectacle yet

Award-winning immersive entertainment and dining company The Lost Estate will turn back the clock to 1890s Paris when their new show Chat Noir! opens in West Kensington in March 2026.

Audiences will slip through a secret door in modern-day London and emerge inside Montmartre’s legendary Parisian cabaret club Le Chat Noir, awash with green-hued absinthe, sultry chanson and Belle Époque decadence.

The Lost Estate’s 30,000 sq ft venue in West London is being rebuilt as a 360-degree recreation of original Paris cabaret club Le Chat Noir, complete with flickering gas lamps and smoke-swirlled table lamps. A roaming house band, Les Enfants Vagabondes, will weave through the crowd, while Toulouse-Lautrec sketches bohemians and absinthe fountains drip into waiting glasses. Expect show-stopping theatrics, exotic routines and the anarchic energy that made the original club the talk of Paris.

Every ticket secures a three-course menu of period French haute cuisine. Between courses, guests can sample Belle Époque cocktails at the emerald-lit Bar de Absinthe – fuel for an evening the producers promise will be “one of love and madness”.

Chat Noir! begins previews in March 2026 with evening performances Tuesday to Sunday and weekend matinees.

After back-to-back hits such as 58th Street, Paradise Under the Stars and The Great Christmas Feast, The Lost Estate expects demand to be fierce.

Chat Noir! is booking in London from 24 March to 27 September 2026.

Sign-up for booking alerts, offers & news about Chat Noir! and other shows:
Main photo: Chat Noir - New The Lost Estate show Chat Noir to open in London. Photo courtesy of the production

Related News

See all

Latest News

See all