I hope that I am completely wrong on this one, but as I understand it, the bar at Tertre Rouge is due to close completely in September this year!
Speaking to the owners, the bar as we know it will not exist in 2011
My limited French is too basic to understand if either the bar will be there in some other format, or if it will become something else completely different.
Suffice to say - if there are ANY changes to the old tin-top shed with only a hole in the floor for a pisser, it will be a complete and utter traversty of justice and another corporate kick in the boll**ks to everything that is Holy for the Great British tradition of LM. It has been part of the experience for as long as I have been going!!
Maybe one of our French friends or ExPats could perhaps contact the bar owners and clarify?[/size]. It would be a nightmare if that place was turned into an ACO bar or another grandstand - or even worse, was demolished and did not become anything at all.
If it is going, it should be moved foundation and brick to the site next to the museum - part of LM history that should be preserved forever.
As I said - I hope that I am wrong.