Le Bristol Paris, for Epicure, which holds three MICHELIN stars and opens onto a 1,200 m² garden. Le Pavillon de la Reine, for Anne, a one-star dining room of about twenty seats whose tables move out to the courtyard in fine weather. Both serve dinner from Tuesday to Saturday, so book the table with the room.
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In Paris the city is the restaurant, so a hotel makes this list only if its own dining room is worth booking for itself. Two of our ten have a MICHELIN-starred kitchen serving in the house: Le Bristol Paris, where Epicure holds three stars, and Le Pavillon de la Reine, where Anne holds one.
Two things shape the stay. Both starred rooms serve dinner from Tuesday to Saturday only, so plan the trip around one of those nights and book the table when you book the room; on Sunday and Monday, places that stay open are within six minutes on foot of both hotels. And service is already in Paris menu prices, so a tip is a thank-you rather than a duty. Choose Le Bristol for a three-star occasion beside a garden, and the Pavillon for a small starred room you reach across a courtyard.
Le Bristol Paris is here for Epicure, which won its third MICHELIN star in 2009 and keeps all three in the 2026 guide. Arnaud Faye, a Meilleur Ouvrier de France who trained with Bernard Loiseau, has run the kitchen since 2024, and his cooking is lighter than a palace dining room might lead you to expect: vegetables first, concentrated sauces, and bread from heritage wheat milled in the house. The room opens onto the 1,200 m² garden, with tables outside in fine weather. It serves lunch and dinner from Tuesday to Saturday, and a jacket is required.
The rest of the house covers the other hours. Café Antonia, the frescoed room between the courtyard and the garden, serves every day until 10.30pm and pours afternoon tea daily from 3.30pm, with pastries by Maxence Barbot; in the warmer months its tables move into the garden as Le Jardin Français. Le Bar du Bristol does the cocktails before Epicure.
The room to book
Deluxe Room with balcony
about 45 m²€2,397 a night
About 45 m² over the garden that Epicure's dining room opens onto, with a balcony of your own above it: the least expensive category with both.
Le Pavillon de la Reine puts a starred dinner a few steps from your room. Anne, named for Anne of Austria, opened in 2018 and has held a MICHELIN star since 2020, kept in the 2026 guide under Thibault Sombardier, with Matthieu Pirola as executive chef. The velvet room seats about twenty, and in fine weather the tables move out onto the courtyard patio. Dinner is two set menus, a vegetable menu at €155 and Expression at €200, with a €95 wine pairing; lunch runs Tuesday to Saturday, with a €79 menu from Tuesday to Friday, and on Sunday Anne serves brunch.
The setting does the rest. You enter through the listed 17th-century arcade at 28 Place des Vosges and cross the cobbled courtyard garden, where the terrace serves breakfast in fine weather and Champagne by the glass, and the bar in the fireplace lounge stays open until midnight. Outside the gate, two-star L'Ambroisie is four minutes away.
The room to book
Junior Suite
30 to 40 m²€1,236 a night
The first category with a separate sitting room, 30 to 40 m², and it can overlook the hotel's terrace, the courtyard where breakfast is served and Anne's tables go out in fine weather.
Grands Boulevards Experimental makes dinner the reason to stay, at a fraction of a palace's room rate: Giovanni Passerini's French-Italian menu, listed in the MICHELIN Guide, in a glass-roofed courtyard that opens up in warm weather, and The Shed, a small planted rooftop bar, every evening.
Hôtel Madame Rêve has La Plume, where Benjamin Six gives French cooking Japanese accents in a room facing Saint-Eustache, and ROOF on top, open until 1am all year. Kei, which holds three MICHELIN stars, is two minutes' walk away.
From about €595 a night
Questions people ask
Good questions about Paris
Which Paris hotels have a MICHELIN-starred restaurant?
Of our ten, two have a starred dining room serving in the house: Epicure at Le Bristol Paris, with three stars in the 2026 guide, and Anne at Le Pavillon de la Reine, with one. Others sit close to starred tables: Kei, with three stars, is two minutes' walk from Hôtel Madame Rêve; Marsan par Hélène Darroze, with two, is two minutes from Mandarin Oriental Lutetia, Paris; and Blanc, with two, is eight minutes from Shangri-La Paris. At Hôtel de Crillon, A Rosewood Hotel, the new gastronomic restaurant is due in 2027, and Alléno Paris, with three stars, is eight minutes across the square.
Are Paris restaurants open on Sunday and Monday?
Many starred dining rooms close on both days, Epicure and Anne among them, and on Sunday Anne serves brunch only, from 12.30pm to 3pm. At Le Bristol Paris, Café Antonia serves dinner every evening from 6pm to 10.30pm; on a Monday, Jean-François Piège's two-star Le Grand Restaurant is six minutes away on foot, and on a Sunday Le Bœuf sur le Toit opens at 7pm. Around Le Pavillon de la Reine, Ma Bourgogne, Chez Janou and Bofinger open every day, two to six minutes' walk away.
Do you need a jacket for dinner at Epicure?
Yes. Epicure, the three-star dining room at Le Bristol Paris, requires a jacket. Lunch runs from noon to 1.30pm and dinner from 7.30pm to 9.30pm, Tuesday to Saturday. The six and eight-course menus must be ordered by 1pm at lunch, and the eight-course menu by 9pm at dinner, so arrive in good time for the longer one. For a more relaxed evening in the same house, Café Antonia serves every night until 10.30pm and has a children's menu.
Do you tip in Paris restaurants?
Service is already in the price. Under an order of 27 March 1987, restaurant and café prices in France are service compris: the service is included in the menu price, and the menu must show its rate. A tip is extra and voluntary, left when the service was good, and in a taxi it is optional too. That holds at Epicure and Anne as much as at a café on the Place des Vosges.
Is breakfast included at Paris hotels?
Usually not, so check whether your rate includes it before you book. At Le Bristol Paris it is extra unless the rate says otherwise: in Café Antonia the Continental is €58 a head and the American €72, and hotel guests can also take it in Epicure's dining room, over the garden, from 7.30am. At Le Pavillon de la Reine it also depends on the rate; the buffet runs from 7am to 10.30am, on the courtyard terrace in fine weather or indoors in the fireplace lounge.
How did you choose these hotels?
Independently, through extensive research, trusted sources and first-hand visits. Hotels cannot pay to be included, and every one of the ten has to exist for a different reason.
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