Plekken in Paris

Alain Passard's three-Michelin temple to vegetables on rue de Varenne.

Two Michelin stars in the Hôtel de la Monnaie, looking at the Seine.

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.

Alsatian choucroute, landmarked Art Nouveau, the Académiciens' lunch.

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.

Paris's oldest chocolate shop since 1800 — Marie Antoinette's chemist's listed boutique on rue des Saints-Pères

Mathieu Pacaud's seafood Michelin star, behind the Esplanade des Invalides.

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.

Five-suite hidden townhouse on avenue Junot — Le Très Particulier cocktail bar, 900m² Benech garden.

Hemingway's table, a piano bar, and the steak that bears his name.

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.

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.

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

Frédéric Anton's two-star kitchen 125m up the Eiffel Tower.

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.

The Académie française's secret canteen, in Voltaire's own building.

The Bernard Loiseau group's Michelin-starred Palais-Bourbon canteen.

Slavic luxe in a 1910 Art Nouveau hôtel particulier — Paris Society's caviar address.

The only Palace hotel on the Left Bank, 1910 Belle Époque on Boulevard Raspail.

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.

Two Michelin stars, a Green Star, and surprise tasting menus.

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

The only chateau-hotel in Paris — Laura Gonzalez interiors, walled garden and Bellefeuille's Michelin star.

Prince Roland Bonaparte's former mansion with Eiffel-facing rooms and Shang Palace's Cantonese kitchen.

David Lynch's 2011 members club six floors below rue de Montmartre — non-members welcome after midnight.

Haussmannian Hôtel Majestic resurrected with rooftop L'Oiseau Blanc and a 360-degree dome view.

Tomy Gousset's Michelin-starred neo-bistro near the Esplanade.

William Ledeuil's Southeast-Asian-French cuisine, Michelin-starred since 2008.