London is about to welcome a transportive new world of velvet, absinthe, and after-dark decadence. Opening 24th March 2026 in West Kensington, Chat Noir! London is the latest creation from The Lost Estate, the visionary team behind The Great Christmas Feast and 58th Street. Known for transforming theatre into full-scale worlds, they now invite you to slip through a secret door and into Paris, 1896, for a night that blurs the lines between cabaret, cuisine, and pure artistic rebellion.
This Chat Noir immersive experience isn’t just a show, it’s time travel wrapped in smoke, song, and the unmistakable chaos of bohemian Montmartre.
The moment you step inside Chat Noir!, the modern world fades away. You find yourself in the beating heart of Montmartre, where artists, poets, and provocateurs gathered to create the world’s first cabaret club: Le Chat Noir.
At the centre of the story is the club’s infamous real-life founder, Rodolphe Salis, played by cabaret star Joe Morrose. For Chat Noir, he’s staging his most ambitious creation yet, a wild, intoxicating revue celebrating love, madness, and the birth of nightlife as we know it.
He’s joined by a cast of iconic Parisian artists brought vividly back to life:
– Buatier De Kolta, the era’s most enigmatic magician (Neil Kelso)
– Cleo de Mérode, the dancer who captivated Europe
– Mime Paul LeGrand, played by virtuoso Pi the Mime
– Yvette Guilbert, the legendary chanteuse who defined belle époque performance
Together, they will lead an evening that swings between elegance and delightful anarchy. The night will be a truly magnificent show with performances that will blow your mind and the world of 2025 seems far behind.
The club’s eccentric house band, Les Enfants Vagabondes, bring Chat Noir to life with their music. The band is led by none other than a young Erik Satie, the real-life pianist of the original Le Chat Noir and a revolutionary of the French avant-garde. Their roaming quintet (piano, violin, cello, accordion and percussion) performs bold new arrangements of French masterpieces, reimagined by The Lost Estate’s composer-in-residence Steffan Rees. Expect Clair de Lune, Carmen, Danse Macabre and more, spilling between tables in a way that feels spontaneous, intimate, and dangerously romantic. This so much more than theatre, it’s an immersive experience that you can be right in the thick of.
As with every Lost Estate production, world-class hospitality sits at the heart of the evening. You’ll get the chance to dine as the Montmartre creatives once did: with abundance, appetite and pure indulgence. The tables are laden with the classic dishes that gave birth to modern gastronomy: Coq au Vin, CrèmeBrûlée, champagne, absinthe, Parisian cocktails and an extensive old-world wine list. Created by Executive Chef Ashley Clarke and Head of Beverages Ilya Demenkov, the menu is a love letter to the cuisine.
Everything is served by lamplight, beneath velvets and shadows, in a dining room designed to feel like the secret salons of Paris’s most mischievous aristocrats.
Design is everything in a show like this, and Chat Noir! goes all out. The Lost Estate’s Head of Design Thomas Kirk Shannon, lighting artist Mike Gunning (Drowned Man, Alice’s Adventures Underground, Grace Jones) and couture designer Susan Kulkarni (Secret Cinema) craft an environment that feels tactile, seductive and completely transportive.
Phones are forbidden and vintage Parisian attire is encouraged, so reach for your silks, velvets, waistcoats, curls and smoky eyes – be as adventurous as you please.
At Chat Noir, guests aren’t just spectators; they become part of the bohemian world itself – and it’s going to be incredible.
“Every experience by The Lost Estate begins the same way – an obsession with a moment in time when art, hospitality, and visionary people collided to create an inflexion point in culture. Chat Noir! is the expression of our latest obsession: the bohemian subculture of 1890s Paris, the dawning of French Haute Cuisine, and amidst it all the impresario Rodolphe Salis with his masterpiece, Le Chat Noir. It was the world’s first cabaret – a night club where great French artists gathered to share and experiment, where every layer of Parisian society came to be entertained, provoked, and liberated. Dining, drinking, and artistic freedom became one. A movement was born that would change global culture forever. What a moment to bring back to life – to give people the chance to travel back in time and step inside this extraordinary nocturnal world, indulge utterly and live out one of the most explosive, daring and hedonistic moments in European cultural history” William Kunhardt, Co–Founder, The Lost Estate.
More info and booking: here.