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Buddha Bar
The Buddha-Bar is a bar, restaurant, and hotel franchise created by restaurateur Raymond Visan and DJ and interior designer Claude Challe, with its original location having opened in Paris, France in 1996.〔Anthony D'Andrea, ''Global Nomads: Techno and New Age as Transnational Countercultures in Ibiza and Goa'' (2007), p. 93.〕 The Buddha Bar "soon became a reference among foreign yuppies and wealthy tourists visiting the city",〔 and "has spawned numerous imitators",〔Bethan Ryder, ''Bar and Club Design'' ( 2006), p. 18.〕 becoming popular in part because of the DJ's choice of eclectic, avant-garde music. It became known internationally for issuing the Buddha Bar compilation albums, which are popular compilations of lounge, chill-out music and world music, also under the Buddha Bar brand,〔 released by George V Records. Buddha Bar "has made a name for itself with its Zen lounge music CDs and remains a hit – especially with tourists".〔Stephen Fallon, ''Paris'' (2010), p. 294.〕 Locations have since been opened in a number of other countries, although not without controversy arising from the theme.
==Theme==
The original restaurant is a Buddha-themed "upscale bar-restaurant with an orientalist 'lounge' ambience" serving Asian cuisine,〔 with a two-story dining area dominated by a large statue of Buddha, and an upstairs bar in the form of a large, ornate dragon. The theme was inspired by the discovery of the space to be used, an antique basement archive with a mezzanine, "which suggested to the architects the idea of an oriental temple and its Buddha".〔Hugo Montanaro, "Buddha Bar", ''The Best of Bars & Restaurants'' (1998), p. 72-77.〕
Buddha Bar venues have been opened in various other locations, including Beirut, Budapest,〔David Landry, "(Buddha-Bar Hotel Budapest takes prestigious prize )", ''Budapest Business Journal'' (December 9, 2013).〕 Dubai,〔''Time Out Dubai'' (2009), p. 149.〕 London, Manila, Moscow, and Mexico City. In June 2012, a Washington, D.C. location closed after two years of operations, having "struggled after a poor critical reception"; while a New York City location was forced to change its name.〔Missy Frederick, "(D.C.'s Buddha Bar appears to have closed )", ''Washington Business Journal'' (June 19, 2012).〕
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