When the weather allows breakfast is served until 11am in the paradisiac garden – expect oven-warm croissants and crusty bread rolls, Alain Millat jams and honey, fruit salad, juice, eggs cooked to order and fantastic Greek yoghurt ingeniously sprinkled with popping candy and white chocolate drops. In winter, breakfast with romantic log fire in Le Grand Salon, the hotel’s elegant restaurant with a frescoed ceiling of billowing soft-pink clouds and funky tassel-fringed, swivel gold chairs oozing vintage panache. 

Lunch (two-course €28/£24; three-course €34/£29) is served Monday to Friday, dinner (à la carte, mains from €25 or £22) Tuesday to Saturday, and a knock-out brunch (€55/£47) at weekends. The short but interesting menu mixes world flavours with French cuisine – the Skipjack tuna in a tamarind cream and Black Angus steak in a garlicky green Chimichurri sauce are equally wonderful. Reservations are essential.

The real darling with Parisian fashionistas is Le Très Particulier (from 6pm to 2am, Tuesday to Saturday), the back-door cocktail bar in the basement with creative craft cocktails (€15/£13), tapas, tropical Garden of Eden décor and a bewitching summer garden. Live music and DJs sets pack out the bar most weekends.