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Created in 1667 by André Le Nôtre, Louis XIV's gardener,in order to improve the view from the Tuileries garden. The avenue was lenghtened at the end of the 18th century, running from theplace de la Concorde to the Arc de Triomphe. Two kilometers long and bordered by trees, les Champs-Elysées has become the center for festivities and official parades. It is likewise a magnet for tourists and night strollers. Set between the many cinemas,the cafés and restaurants tempt you to stop in. Designer boutiques,banks and embassies are also situated in this chic neighborhood.

The Champs-Élysées (literally, the "Elysian fields") is a broad avenue in the French capital Paris. With its cinemas, cafés, and luxury specialty shops, the Champs-Élysées is one of the most famous streets in the world.

The avenue runs from the Place de la Concorde to the Place de l'Étoile, location of the Arc de Triomphe, and forms part of the line of the Axe historique.

The Champs-Élysées were originally nothing but fields, until 1616 when Marie de Medici decided to build a long tree-lined pathway. In 1724, the avenue was extended up to the Place de l'Étoile.

By the late 1700s, it had become a fashionable avenue where Queen Marie Antoinette strolled with her friends and took music lessons at the grand Hotel Crillon. The Champs-Élysées became city property in 1828, and footpaths, fountains, and gas lighting were added. Over the years, the avenue has undergone numerous transitions, most recently in 1993.

The Élysée Palace is located not far from the avenue.

Restaurants on the Champs Elysees :

Bistros & brasseries
Le Boeuf sur le Toit
34 rue du Colisée, 8th (01.53.93.65.55). M° St-Philippe du Roule.
Open noon-3pm, 7pm-1am daily.
Average €38.
Prix fixe €31.
Credit AmEx, DC, MC, V. Non-smoking room.

Le Boeuf sur le Toit started out as a lively cabaret in the 1920s. Taken over by Groupe Flo in the mid-1980s, the brasserie was restored and enlarged, but echoes of ‘les années folles’ remain in the decor and the bubbly crowd. The huge bank of oysters is one of the highlights here, but there are also some satisfying Mediterranean-style dishes à la carte, alongside brasserie classics such as the andouillette de Troyes. The wine list offers a good choice, including carafes, and a range of prices.

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Chez Léon
32 rue Legendre, 17th (01.42.27.06.82). M° Villiers.
Open noon-2pm, 7.30-10pm Mon-Fri. Closed Aug.
Average €40.
Prix fixe €29.
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This old-fashioned spot is charming for its sincerity, fly-in-amber decor and carefully made, generous, rare bistro classics. The €29 prix fixe offers stunning value for money since it includes a better-than-decent half bottle of wine. What a treat to find homemade jambon persillé so full of taste. Main courses of smoked herring with an aubergine timbale and rumpsteak with chips are also excellent, and the waiters express an existential resignation worthy of a boulevard comedy.

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Les Ormes
8 rue Chapu, 16th (01.46.47.83.98). M° Exelmans.
Open 12.15-2pm, 7.45-10pm Tue-Sat. Closed Aug, first week in Jan.
Average €45.
Prix fixe €40.50 (dinner and Sat lunch).
Lunch menu €26, €30.
Credit AmEx, MC, V.

It’s worth the trip to discover the cooking of talented young chef Stéphane Molé, whose delicious cooking is at once lusty and refined. The good-value prix fixe - three courses plus cheese from the fromagerie Alléosse - changes almost daily but typical dishes include quenelles de brochet (pike-perch dumplings) with sauce américaine, and boneless veal knuckle with gnocchi. Desserts are excellent, too.

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Restaurant GR5
19 rue Gustave Courbet, 16th (01.47.27.09.84). M° Trocadéro.
Open noon-3pm, 7-11pm Mon-Sat.
Average

Incongruously located among the chic boutiques of the 16th is this mock mountain refuge, named after the long-distance footpath that winds through the Jura to the Alps. The welcome is warm, and rib-sticking cheese and potatoes are the key ingredients in Savoyarde fare such as fondue queyrassienne (€35 for two people) - a three-cheese version of the Alpine classic with bacon and onions - raclette valaisienne, or tartiflette, a cheese, potato, and bacon concoction that will give you the energy, if you can get up from the table, to climb Mont Blanc.

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Restaurant L’Entredgeu
83 rue Laugier, 17th (01.40.54.97.24). M° Porte de Champerret.
Open noon-2pm, 8-10.15pm Tue-Sat.
Prix fixe

This snug little bistro has been packed ever since it opened thanks to its excellent food at very reasonable prices. Young chef Philippe Tredgeu mastered this sure-fire formula while heading the kitchen at Chez Casimir. The blackboard menu changes daily, and might feature scallops cooked in their shells with salted butter and crumbled cauliflower, chewy, flavourful roast pork with braised chicory and lamb stuffed with foie gras. Homely desserts run to caramelised bananas and apple crumble.

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Le Scheffer
22 rue Scheffer, 16th (01.47.27.81.11). M° Trocadéro.
Open noon-2.30pm, 7.30-10.30pm Mon-Sat. Closed Sat in July and Aug, 25 Dec-2 Jan.
Average

A stone’s throw from busy Trocadéro, Le Scheffer is a tourist-free haven for French family-style dining. OK, so the French Sloanes with immaculate enfants aren’t your average family, but their palates are reassuringly classical. Slather os à moëlle (unctuous marrow bone) on bread and follow with crispy confit de canard or salmon grilled à l’unilatéral (on one side). A mound of profiteroles or fluffy île flottante vie for top sweet. Be sure to book ahead.

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Contemporary/trendy
Le 16 au 16
16 av Bugeaud, 16th (01.56.28.16.16). M° Victor Hugo.
Open noon-2.30pm, 7.30-10.30pm Tue-Sat.
Average

Ghislaine Arabian’s former restaurant has been adroitly reinvented and even improved by the team she left behind. Chef Frédéric Simonin has a sassy creativity and excels in seasoning and timing, as shown in the fillet of beef in a rich shallot and red wine reduction with ratte potatoes, and sea bass with white beans and thyme. Dessert thrills include sublime figs poached in wine with pine nuts, and the assiette 16 sur 16, a spectacular study in chocolate and caramel. There’s a brilliant wine list with a good selection of foreign bottles, and a buzzy crowd.

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L’Envue
39 rue Boissy d’Anglas, 8th (01.42.65.10.49) M° Madeleine or Concorde.
Open 8am-11pm Mon-Sat. Closed Aug.
Average

Even if you have an aversion to fashion restaurants, make an exception for this place, since the decor, food and service are really good in a part of Paris that desperately needed an option between the plastic corner café and haute cuisine. The menu is ideal for grazing, since you can order a tasting plate of seafood - sea bass sashimi, salmon tartare and rillettes, brandade and green beans - and a similar all-in veg plate, or go à la carte with a cheese-and-chive soufflé or tomatoes stuffed with chèvre, followed by steak tartare, chicken in lemon-saffron sauce, or langoustine risotto with mango.

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Flora
36 av George V, 8th (01.40.70.10.49). M° George V.
Open noon-2pm, 8-10.30pm Mon-Fri; 8-10.30pm Sat. Closed two weeks in Aug.
Average

Engaging chef Flora Mikula runs this stylish new restaurant with floral-upon-floral wallpaper and 1940s-style glass wall sconces. Mikula, one of the best Provençal chefs in Europe, has broadened her horizons to include an international version of the south that visits Morocco, Turkey, India and Vietnam. Starters such as a croustillant de crabe in tomato soup, a main of lobster with broad beans and girolles in a jus of its own coral, and desserts including a macaroon in rose syrup with lime sorbet, are all wonderful, and the hospitality is southern too.

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Maison Blanche
15 av Montaigne, 8th (01.47.23.55.99 / www.maison-blanche.fr). M° Alma-Marceau.
Open daily noon-2.30pm, 8pm-midnight.
Average €100.
Lunch menu €75.
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The Pourcel twins have done a brilliant job at reviving this trendy spot over the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. The decor is slick and the menu is superb. It’s the starters that star, with dishes as visually interesting as they are appetising: sea urchins stuffed with dressed crab and garnished with caviar; tarte Tatin of shallots with grilled red mullet, and mains such as sea bass baked with preserved lemons and roast duck fillet with a ‘pastilla’ of carrots and apricots. Desserts are brilliant, too.

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Spoon, Food & Wine
14 rue de Marignan, 8th (01.40.76.34.44 / www.spoon.tm.fr). M° Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Open noon-2pm, 7-11pm Mon-Fri. Closed 14 July, last week in July and first three weeks in Aug.
Average €75.
Prix fixe €37 (dinner only).
Lunch menu €37, €43.
Credit AmEx, DC, MC, V.

While others have come and gone Spoon, with its mix-and-match menu, has stayed much the same, though it’s not chock-full as it used to be and prices are decidedly cheeky. The Speedy Spoon, a recently introduced 40-minute lunch menu, draws on a different continent every day, providing a kind of upmarket TV dinner. The Spoon Top Five desserts include great cheesecake and nougat ice cream.

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Haute cuisine
Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athénée
Hôtel Plaza Athénée, 25 av Montaigne, 8th (01.53.67.65.00 / www.alain-ducasse.com). M° Alma-Marceau.
Open 8-10.30pm Mon-Wed; 1-2.30pm, 8-10.30pm Thur, Fri. Closed last two weeks in Dec, mid-July to mid-Aug.
Average €220.
Prix fixe €190, €280.
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Ducasse’s spectacular cuisine continues to shine, and the service is probably the most professional, engaging and precise of any restaurant in Paris. From amuse-bouches of perfectly poached langoustines topped with caviar, and spider crab served in its orange shell beneath a bubbly foam of coral, through sautéed Breton lobster with asparagus tips and morels in a light sauce of its own cooking juices, a superb plate of cheeses and desserts that are an operatic triumph, this address provides an unforgettable dining experience. Book well ahead.

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Le V
Hôtel Four Seasons George V, 31 av George V, 8th (01.49.52.70.00 / www.fourseasons.com). M° George V.
Open noon-2.30pm, 6.30-11pm daily.
Average €180.
Prix fixe €90, €190.
Lunch menu €70.
Credit AmEx, DC, MC, V. Wheelchair access.

A look at the menu replete with lobster, truffles, caviar, Bresse chicken, turbot and sea bass and you could believe it to be simply a roll-call of grandeur. Not so. Philippe Legendre does indeed produce luxury fare, but combined with precise execution, well-judged service and just a whiff of invention. The undoubted highlight is the lobster, wood-smoked in its shell and surrounded by a delicate, frothy morel sauce. The cheese trolley is full of well-aged specimens, among them the fabulous venaco de Corse.

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Pierre Gagnaire
6 rue Balzac, 8th (01.58.36.12.50 / www.pierre-gagnaire.com). M° Charles de Gaulle-Etoile or George V.
Open noon-2pm, 7.30-10pm Mon-Fri; 7.30-10pm Sun. Closed one week in Feb, last two weeks in July.
Average €150.
Prix fixe €195.
Lunch menu €90.

Credit AmEx, DC, MC, V. Wheelchair access.
There is only one Pierre Gagnaire. The man is a creative genius, and a meal here is a breathtaking adventure. Dishes are made up of several elements, served separately, which attempt to tell the story of a particular ingredient: ‘la langoustine’, for instance, featuring a pan-fried version with a lime tuile, a mousseline with lemongrass, a tartare with apple and ginger, and grilled, with thyme nougatine. Others illustrate surprising complementarities (veal and frogs, for example). The prix fixe offers an ideal introduction, with some nine separate courses. Book well ahead at this top table.

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International
Japanese: Kifuné
44 rue St-Ferdinand, 17th (01.45.72.11.19). M° Argentine.
Open 7-10pm Mon; noon-2pm, 7-10pm Tue-Sat. Closed two weeks in Aug, two weeks in winter.
Average €35.
Lunch menu €23.50.
Credit MC, V.

The sleepy street is not very easy to find but that doesn’t stop this small, understated restaurant from filling up with an entirely Japanese crowd. Starters include a sublime crab and prawn salad - real crab claws with squeaky fresh prawns and ever-so-thin marinated cucumber slices - and richly flavoured miso soup with clams. Sushi and sashimi are expensive but the quality is equivalently high.

Our team look after our guests' every need from the moment they arrive at the hotel le A ( close to the Champs Elysees and the Arc de Triomphe ) to the time of their departure. Be assured to be understood in English, Italian, German, Spanish and French.
The Hotel Le A boasts 25 sumptuous guest bedrooms, including 9 junior suites, 1 classic room, 7 superior rooms, 8 deluxe rooms and 1 apartment.. Each room is equipped with all modern amenities to enhance your stay : air conditioning, interactive satellite television with 16 channels, the Wi-Fi connection technology, electronic control of the blinds, adjustable lights…