Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2027 runs from 28 September to 6 October. The tables fill faster than the front rows. The rooms below are where the houses, the buyers and the editors actually eat during the nine days, checked this week against each restaurant’s own site and the 2026 Michelin Guide, with the chef in the kitchen now, the days it opens, what it costs where a price is published, and how to book. Two facts changed this year and matter: L’Ambroisie has a new chef and two stars instead of three, and Monsieur Dior on Avenue Montaigne has its first star and serves lunch only.
The grand tables: ten rooms, 24 stars
Plénitude, on the first floor of Cheval Blanc Paris at 8 quai du Louvre, holds three stars under Arnaud Donckele and opens for dinner only, Tuesday to Saturday from 19:30. The four-act menu called Sail Away Together is priced at 330 euros on the hotel’s gift site. The restaurant takes its own bookings by phone. In the same hotel, Hakuba, the Japanese counter that Takuya Watanabe runs with Donckele, was promoted to two stars in March and serves dinner Tuesday to Saturday. Le Gabriel at La Réserve, 42 avenue Gabriel, has three stars under Jérôme Banctel and is the rare grand table open Monday to Friday for both lunch and dinner. The Escale menus at lunch cost 165 or 230 euros, Virée and Périple at dinner 350 and 450. The dress code rules out shorts, sportswear, caps and open shoes for men. Épicure at Le Bristol, three stars under Arnaud Faye, serves lunch and dinner Tuesday to Saturday, with a six-course menu at 360 euros and a jacket “not compulsory but highly recommended”. Le Cinq at the George V, three stars under Christian Le Squer, is dinner only, Tuesday to Saturday from 19:00, with no prices published online. Alléno Paris au Pavillon Ledoyen, three stars, is dinner only, Monday to Friday, with the Collection menu at 330 or 415 euros and “tenue correcte exigée”.
Le Clarence, in the 1884 mansion at 31 avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt, keeps its two stars with Andrea Capasso, executive chef since September 2025, and serves Tuesday to Saturday: a three-course lunch at 150 euros, the Inspiration menu at 380 for lunch and 430 for dinner. Note the annual closure from 25 October to 2 November, after the shows. L’Ambroisie on Place des Vosges has two stars in the 2026 guide, down from three, and a new chef, Shintaro Awa, formerly Eric Frechon’s right hand at Le Bristol, after Bernard Pacaud stepped back in August 2025; the eight-course tasting menu is 410 euros for the whole table, dinner only on Tuesday, lunch and dinner Wednesday to Saturday. Le Meurice Alain Ducasse keeps two stars with Amaury Bouhours in the kitchen and Cédric Grolet on pastry, Monday to Friday, dress code “elegant”. And Monsieur Dior by Yannick Alléno, on the first floor of 30 Montaigne, took its first star in March, seven months after Alléno arrived, and serves lunch daily from 11:45 to 15:30 and afternoon tea until 19:30. There is no dinner service. Book on SevenRooms and expect the week to be full.
| Restaurant | Stars 2026 | Chef | When | Menu |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plénitude, Cheval Blanc | 3 | Arnaud Donckele | Dinner Tue to Sat | 330 euros |
| Le Gabriel, La Réserve | 3 | Jérôme Banctel | Lunch and dinner Mon to Fri | 165 to 450 euros |
| Épicure, Le Bristol | 3 | Arnaud Faye | Lunch and dinner Tue to Sat | 360 euros |
| Le Cinq, George V | 3 | Christian Le Squer | Dinner Tue to Sat | not published |
| Alléno Paris, Pavillon Ledoyen | 3 | Yannick Alléno | Dinner Mon to Fri | 330 or 415 euros |
| Le Clarence | 2 | Andrea Capasso | Tue to Sat | 150 to 430 euros |
| L’Ambroisie | 2 | Shintaro Awa | Tue dinner, Wed to Sat | 410 euros |
| Le Meurice Alain Ducasse | 2 | Amaury Bouhours | Mon to Fri | not published |
| Hakuba, Cheval Blanc | 2 | Takuya Watanabe | Dinner Tue to Sat | not published |
| Monsieur Dior | 1 | Yannick Alléno | Lunch daily | not published |
The rooms where the week actually happens
Nobody closes a deal at a three-star. The week’s business is done in a dozen rooms without stars. Caviar Kaspia, at 17 place de la Madeleine since 1927, is the room the fashion crowd has treated as its canteen for decades; the baked potato with caviar is the dish, the menu is on SevenRooms and nothing else is published. Le Voltaire, at 27 quai Voltaire and a restaurant since 1908, opens every day for lunch and dinner and takes bookings through SevenRooms. Girafe, in the Palais de Chaillot at Trocadéro, is Paris Society’s room by Joseph Dirand in a 1930s spirit, with a terrace facing the Eiffel Tower and dinner served until 2:00 every night. Loulou, inside the Musée des Arts Décoratifs at 107 rue de Rivoli, is Italian under Benoît Dargère, open every day for lunch and dinner with a terrace on the Tuileries. La Société at 4 place Saint-Germain-des-Prés and Brasserie Lipp a few doors along the boulevard, open from 09:00 to 02:00 since 1880 with “tenue correcte exigée”, cover the Left Bank. Le Relais Plaza at the Plaza Athénée has a new head chef, Victoria Boller, in one of the last Art Deco dining rooms in Paris, lunch from 12:15 and dinner from 19:30, smart casual. Chez Julien, opposite the church of Saint-Gervais in the Marais, runs from 08:30 to 23:00 under Helmi Derbal. Lapérouse on the quai des Grands Augustins, a house since 1766, is open every day with Jean-Pierre Vigato cooking and Christophe Michalak on pastry, starters from 29 to 107 euros and mains from 34 to 97. Le Grand Véfour at the Palais-Royal, now Paris Society with Bruno Doucet, has a 150-seat terrace on the gardens. Maxim’s on rue Royale, also Paris Society, serves dinner every night and lunch at weekends, by reservation only. L’Avenue at 41 avenue Montaigne publishes nothing but an email address, which is the point. And Ferdi, at 32 rue du Mont Thabor, takes bookings only by WhatsApp and lists its Mac Ferdi at 16 euros; it warns that some nights the burgers run out before the second service.
The Italians in Paris
The Italian tables are where the Milan crowd eats when it lands. Langosteria occupies the seventh floor of La Samaritaine at Cheval Blanc, with Michele Biassoni as executive chef, a terrace over the Seine from Notre-Dame to Sacré-Coeur, lunch Wednesday to Sunday and dinner every night; it is in the Michelin selection without a star and the guide’s inspector calls it “a place to eat and be seen”. Il Ristorante Niko Romito at the Bulgari Hotel, 30 avenue George V, has 26 tables in a private garden, Davide Capucchio as executive chef and Antonio Citterio’s design, lunch and dinner daily; it is in the Michelin selection without a star. The Emporio Armani Caffè at 149 boulevard Saint-Germain, opposite Les Deux Magots, is open from 12:15 to 22:30 every day and books on TheFork, and upstairs Armani Ristorante holds one star under Massimo Tringali. Gigi Rigolatto at 15 avenue Montaigne is Paris Society’s Venetian palace of Siena marble and travertine, with the Bellini Bar open to 02:00. Cucina Mutualité, Alain Ducasse’s trattoria at 20 rue Saint-Victor in the fifth, serves lunch and dinner every day. Casa Tua, the Miami import, has landed at J.K. Place Paris, 82 rue de Lille, a hotel with two Michelin Keys.
The new stars to try before everyone else
Four rooms took their first star in March 2026. Prévelle, at 34 rue Saint-Dominique, is Romain Meder’s first restaurant after his years with Alain Ducasse at the Plaza Athénée, plant-centred, with lunch at 65 or 85 euros and tasting menus of five or seven courses at 155 and 175, lunch Tuesday to Friday and dinner Monday to Friday. Zostera, at 40 rue Pergolèse in the former Le Pergolèse, is Julien Dumas’s room. Irwin, at 22 rue Cambacérès, has seven tables and a chef’s table under Irwin Durand. Geoélia, at 125 rue de la Tour, is Camille Saint-M’Leux’s, under two Murano chandeliers. And La Grande Table du Plaza Athénée, the hotel’s gastronomic room now led by executive chef Jocelyn Herland with Anthony Di Prospero, holds one star and asks for a jacket. The complete 2026 star list is on the guide’s French site.
How to get a table in fashion week
The mechanics are the same every season. The hotel restaurants give their own guests first call on tables, which is the strongest argument for sleeping at Cheval Blanc, Le Bristol, the George V or La Réserve that week; our guide to the fashion week hotels of Paris sets out which hotel goes with which room. For Kaspia, Girafe, Loulou and Gigi, book the day the show invitations arrive. Lunch is the loophole: Le Gabriel, Épicure and Le Clarence all serve it, and Monsieur Dior only exists at lunch. For the day-by-day show schedule, the two debuts and the Italian houses in Paris, see our calendar.
The Luxury.it perspective
The Paris list has quietly become an Italian list. Andrea Capasso at Le Clarence, Michele Biassoni at Langosteria, Niko Romito at the Bulgari, Armani on the boulevard, Gigi on Avenue Montaigne, Loulou in the museum beside the Louvre: the kitchens that feed the fashion week carry as many Italian names as the houses that fill it. The stars still belong to the French, and the three-star rooms remain the places where a maison entertains a client it cannot afford to lose. But the room where a collection is judged, the night of the show, over a baked potato and a tin of caviar, has not changed since 1927. Book Kaspia first. Then book everything else.
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