Plekken in Paris

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

The Île Saint-Louis institution Gault Millau crowned in 1961, still family-run, still the standard.

Bertrand Larcher's original Paris crêperie, Bordier butter, Breton cider, Tokyo-trained discipline.

Paris's oldest artisanal coffee roaster, since 1880, still on the same Saint-Honoré sidewalk.

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.

Truffle institution on the Madeleine since 1932, boutique downstairs, restaurant upstairs.

Robert Linxe's original chocolate boutique since 1977, the room that defined Paris bean-to-praline

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.

Myriam Sabet's Levantine pâtisserie, kadaïf 1001-feuilles that Istanbul visitors instinctively recognise.

Marais épicerie-fine + restaurant, Delphine Plisson's Dean & DeLuca answer for Paris.

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

Classical French pâtisserie under the Pyramides arcades, tea room facing the Tuileries

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