Lugares in Champs-Élysées & Madeleine

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

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.

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

1895 Saint-Lazare brasserie, Niermans mosaics, listed since 1989.

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

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.

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

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.

Robert Linxe's original chocolate boutique since 1977, the room that defined Paris bean-to-praline

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 original 1862 Ladurée tea room, the room that invented the Paris salon de thé.

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.

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.

Gaston Lenôtre's flagship since 1957, the Plaine Monceau room that taught a generation of French pastry chefs

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

Counter-seat Korean, chef Kim Kwang-Loc's mandu and tartares, fashion-week regulars on stools.

Paul Pairet's grill-and-rotisserie brasserie at the Crillon, the chic French fire-cooking room.

Meilleur Ouvrier de France 2000 chocolatier, the Madeleine flagship with the life-size chocolate sculptures

Alléno's one-Michelin counter format at Pavillon Ledoyen, the realistic same-week booking.

Anatolian home cooking on rue Pasquier, the Madeleine room the Istanbul audience will actually recognise.