Locali 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.

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.

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.

Avenue Montaigne palace with red awnings, Dior Spa and Jean Imbert's gilded dining room.

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

Pierre Yves Rochon-designed townhouse-palace near the Élysée with Michelin two-star Le Gabriel.

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.

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.

Philippe Starck's contemporary palace with private cinema, Matsuhisa and the Clarins-MyBlend spa.

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

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