Mekane in Paris

Yannick Alléno's three-Michelin in a pavilion at the Champs-Élysées gardens — the sauce-extraction reference.

MOF chef, 1-Michelin, Parisian-apartment dining on rue Bayen.

Three Michelin stars, Japanese precision in a Coq-Héron jewel-box dining room

Faubourg Saint-Honoré palace — Epicure (3 Michelin) and the audience's safest 8e booking.

Christian Le Squer's three-Michelin showcase inside George V — the textbook for Paris haute cuisine.

Jérôme Banctel's three-Michelin in a Napoleon III mansion off the Champs-Élysées.

Three-Michelin since 1996 — the chef who taught Paris that haute cuisine could improvise.

Argentinian carnivore room in a former butcher shop — relaunched with Mauro Colagreco's hand on the menu.

One Michelin star inside Place des Vosges' most discreet pavilion — Marais gastronomy without the spectacle.

The Ritz's wood-paneled cocktail room — bookless reservations and a serious dry martini

Crillon palace bar with eighteenth-century frescos — Kévin Rigault's 'A Sense of Memories' menu.

Madeleine institution since 1927 — the first-floor caviar dining room above the boutique.

LVMH's Samaritaine flagship with three-Michelin Plénitude, Dior Spa Cheval Blanc and a 30-meter pool.

12 rooms, all looking onto Place des Vosges — Evok Collection's quietest, most contemplative Paris address.

The only European palace with three Michelin-starred restaurants and Jeff Leatham's florals.

1758 stone palace on Place de la Concorde, gold-scaled pool and Karl Lagerfeld suites.

Avenue Montaigne palace with red awnings, Dior Spa and Jean Imbert's gilded dining room.

The Plaza's restored heritage-French dining room — recipes excavated from two-and-a-half centuries of menus.

Ten-seat omakase between Louvre and Place Vendôme — chef Satoshi Kobayashi's surgical edomae.

Yasunari Okazaki's two-Michelin sushi counter inside Pavillon Ledoyen — twelve seats, ikejime fish.

The bistro mythology lives at #32 rue du Vertbois — controversial, expensive, irreplaceable.

Two-Michelin glass pavilion at George V where the kitchen runs on vegetables, dairy and seafood — no meat.

Truffle institution on the Madeleine since 1932 — boutique downstairs, restaurant upstairs.

Pierre Yves Rochon-designed townhouse-palace near the Élysée with Michelin two-star Le Gabriel.

Stéphanie Le Quellec's two-Michelin counter-front room on avenue Matignon.

The Directoire mansion with the retractable roof — a multi-decade Paris institution off the Champs-Élysées.

Le Bristol's curiosity-cabinet bar — Maxime Hoerth, first bartender awarded Meilleur Ouvrier de France (2011).

Royal Monceau's Philippe Starck-designed long bar — Forbes Travel Guide Star Bars 2025 pick on Avenue Hoche.

Two-Michelin in an 1884 mansion off the Champs — the Domaine Clarence Dillon dining room.

Simone Zanoni's Mediterranean-Italian one-Michelin at George V — the palace alternative to a tasting menu.

Palais-Royal arcade institution since 1784 — historic monument with a kitchen in transition

Tuileries-facing Dorchester palace with Restaurant Le Meurice Alain Ducasse and Cédric Grolet pastry.

5-star hideaway behind ivy on Place des Vosges — 56 rooms, a courtyard, a Michelin-starred restaurant.

Philippe Starck's contemporary palace with private cinema, Matsuhisa and the Clarins-MyBlend spa.

Two Michelin since 1946 — the institution where Paris learned modern restaurant service.

Place de la Madeleine institution since 1839 — Hugo Bourny's contemporary take on the Art Nouveau room.

2-Michelin institution off Place des Ternes — 45 years of haute French classicism.

Art Deco palace on rue Saint-Honoré — 14m pool, garden courtyard, Cédric Grolet's pastry boutique

Place Vendôme palace by Ed Tuttle with Michelin-starred Pur' and a contemporary art-hung corridor.

Fewer than 20 seats, one Michelin star, one chef's vision — the Marais's most surgical tasting menu.

Two-star Ducasse dining room overlooking the Tuileries, with Cédric Grolet desserts

1898 Place Vendôme palace — Coco Chanel's home, Hemingway's bar, Espadon's dining room

The first Italian in Paris to win a Michelin star — 600-bottle list, 40 years on.