The best Paris hotels with Michelin-starred restaurants
A guide to the best Michelin-starred restaurants in Paris, including Alain Ducasse at Plaza Athenée, Le Cinq at Four Seasons George V, Epicure at Le Bristol, Restaurant Le Meurice and Sur Mesure par Thierry Marx.
Restaurant Le Meurice by Alain Ducasse at Le Meurice
Le Meurice
Paris, France
9Telegraph expert rating
In the hands of multi-starred super chef Alain Ducasse, Restaurant Le Meurice offers superb dining under a blowsy rococo ceiling. Ducasse protégé Christophe Saintagne has really come into his own here with pared back, refined cuisine that gets down to the essentials of quality ingredients. Two-course set lunch menu €85 (£76). Read expert review From £600per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
Epicure at Le Bristol
Le Bristol
Paris, France
9Telegraph expert rating
The jewel in this hotel’s crown is Epicure, the triple Michelin-starred restaurant overseen by Eric Frechon. It was Nicolas Sarkozy’s favourite haunt when he was in office, and the food is positively ambrosial. Chiefly drawing on French produce and tradition, starters might include stuffed macaroni with black truffle (€95/£85) followed by Bresse pigeon (€85/£76). At €295 (£264), the seven-course tasting menu is for serious gourmands only. A much more affordable option, with its own street entrance (and Michelin star), is 114 Faubourg next door, which serves imaginative brasserie-style cooking prepared in an open kitchen (lunch dishes from €62/£55). Read expert review From £821per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
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Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athenée
Hotel Plaza Athenee
Paris, France
9Telegraph expert rating
Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athénée is a showpiece restaurant, serving dishes — often displaying unusual and interesting bitter notes — that are both unexpected and delicious. Ducasse has raised eyebrows in Paris by offering no meat on the menu; instead, expect seafood (turbot, langoustines, lobster and caviar), vegetables from the gardens at Versailles and a range of pulses. It’s extremely expensive: starters cost from €90 (£80) with main courses ranging from €110 (£98) to €155 (£139). The restaurant, which has silver banquettes, a wall cabinet of the chef’s culinary equipment and shimmering crystal-drop chandeliers, overlooks a courtyard restaurant that transforms into a skating rink in winter. Read expert review From £901per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
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Sur Mesure par Thierry Marx at Mandarin Oriental Paris
Mandarin Oriental, Paris
Paris, France
8Telegraph expert rating
At Sur Mesure par Thierry, foodies pay homage in an all-white room that has been designed so as not to detract from the ‘sensory’ dining experience. Indeed, the hotel’s website warns: "With each dish he [Marx] aims for a profound response". At dinner, the six-course tasting menu (€210/£188) might include fried chicken wing with spicy squid and crispy ink tuille, or pork backbone with fava beans, acidulous strawberries and mint. Those wishing to sample Marx’s food without sobbing into their wallet can instead dine at the hotel’s excellent Camélia restaurant, also overseen by the chef extraordinaire. Five-course lunch menu €85 (£76; Tuesday to Friday only). Read expert review From £799per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
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Le Cinq at Four Seasons George V
Four Seasons Hotel George V Paris
Paris, France
8Telegraph expert rating
Le Cinq, determined to up its game on the culinary scene, did so with the arrival of chef Christian Le Squer, long-time three-star chef at Ledoyen, in late 2014. In February 2016, he won Le Cinq its third Michelin star. The Brittany-born chef is particularly at ease with fish and shellfish, including inventive marine and citrus fruit combinations. Unusual starters might include a 'deconstructed' onion soup. Four-course lunch menu €145 (£130). The hotel's other restaurants, L’Orangerie and Le George, both have one star each. Read expert review From £800per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
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La Table de l’Espadon at Ritz Paris
Hotel Lancaster
Paris, France
7Telegraph expert rating
With several places to eat and drink, the prestige option is undoubtedly Michelin-starred restaurant L'Espadon (swordfish), cue for a cut-glass fish lamp on each table. It's a pity they haven't updated the very formal setting weighed down by mirrors, chandeliers, Louis XV chairs, porcelain and silver cloches to be more in keeping with the imaginative creations of chef Nicolas Sale. Fresh from a two-star restaurant in Chamonix, he brings a contemporary vision to luxury ingredients, as in his three-stage starters (lure, raw, cooked) like langoustine with caviar and a main course of Bresse chicken for two. Set menus from €195 (£174). Read expert review From £330per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
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Le Restaurant at L'Hôtel
L'Hotel
Paris, France
8Telegraph expert rating
Naturally, The Hotel is home to The Restaurant, where chef Julien Montbabut was awarded his Michelin star in 2013. Relax over colourful and decorative classic French cuisine, sitting in the small courtyard garden with its fountain, or amid the silks and bronze Empire lamps of the dining room that looks a bit like a marquee from a Napoleonic campaign. Two-course lunch menu from €45. Read expert review From £263per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
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La Scène at Prince de Galles
Prince de Galles
Paris, France
8Telegraph expert rating
La Scène operates under Stéphanie Le Quellec, one of the new generation of rising young chefs in France. Don’t expect rich elaborate sauces; flavours are carefully blended and controlled, but the cooking is simple and precise, and based on seasonal produce and dishes from the South of France, such as langoustine with green tea and mini herb sorbets. The setting is highly contemporary, with white leather seats, and a striking open-sided kitchen. This is formal French dining at its best; very much a restaurant in a hotel, rather than a hotel restaurant. Two-course lunch menu from €50. Read expert review From £583per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
L'Abeille at Shangri-La Paris
Shangri-La Hotel, Paris
Paris, France
8Telegraph expert rating
The arrival at the start of the year of Christophe Moret at Shangri-La’s attractive L’Abeille haute cuisine restaurant (named after the Napoleonic bee symbol), has seen the chef really come into his own. Some describe his style as less intellectual than predecessor Philippe Labbé, but this is refreshing and updated grand French cuisine that gives priority to superb ingredients and seasonal produce, whether it’s an homage to the tomato, spider crab or excellent John Dory. Happily now also open for Thursday and Friday lunch. Moret also oversees the cosmopolitan Franco-Asian all-day Bauhinia restaurant, in the former circular cinema, so too the one-star Shang Palace in the basement, where chef Samuel Lee Sum serves probably the best, most authentic Cantonese cuisine in town. Three-course lunch menu €88 (Thursday and Friday only). Read expert review From £688per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
