Lokale in Paris

Belle Époque salon de thé since 1903, Mont-Blanc and chocolat l'Africain under the rue de Rivoli arcades

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

The cult sandwich stall inside Marché des Enfants Rouges, 30-minute queue, 13.50€, no apologies.

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

Boutique design hotel inside a former metals factory, concrete, courtyard, cocktail bar at the centre.

Laurent Taïeb's reborn 1888 central post office with rooftop ROOF and Eiffel-facing terraces.

12 rooms, exposed beams, quiet 4e side street, the Marais's small, well-priced character hotel.

Châtelet jazz club since 1984, 300+ concerts a year, free Friday-Saturday midnight jam.

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.

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

Paris's oldest covered market, since 1615, 21 stalls, all of lunchtime Marais, on one block.

Jean-Louis Deniot-designed Evok hotel facing Comédie-Française, with Brasserie Réjane and a marble pool.

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

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

Paris's oldest pâtisserie since 1730, Louis XV's pastry chef's listed shop on rue Montorgueil

Adeline Grattard's bistro reincarnation, Franco-Cantonese cooking after Yam'Tcha proper closes