101 rooms by Jacques Garcia inside the 19th-century corner block above the 1899 Fouquet's brasserie — the most photographed café-terrace on the Champs-Élysées and the official César Awards after-party for two decades.
"The Champs-Élysées hotel that comes with the Champs-Élysées brasserie attached — Fouquet's downstairs, 101 Garcia-red rooms upstairs, and the only Paris five-star where the corner you arrive at is more famous than the lobby you walk into."
Fouquet's brasserie has held the corner of the Champs-Élysées and Avenue George V since 1899, when Louis Fouquet opened a coachmen's bar that grew into the canonical Parisian café — the venue Marlene Dietrich made her Paris habit, the room James Joyce used as his unofficial study, and the official venue for the Académie's César Awards dinner since 1976. The hotel above the brasserie opened in 2006 under the Barrière family — the casino dynasty whose holdings include Le Royal Deauville, the Cannes Carlton management contract, and Fouquet's brasseries in eight cities — to a Jacques Garcia interior brief that calibrates the rooms to the Belle Époque exterior the city already knew. The building was extensively rebuilt in 2017–2020 with new architecture by Édouard François adding a contemporary residential wing facing rue Vernet.
The 101 rooms and suites — including 35 suites — combine Jacques Garcia's signature deep colour palette (oxblood reds, charcoal greys, brushed gold) with avant-garde technology: pillow menus, laptop-friendly desks, marble bathrooms with separate walk-in showers and freestanding tubs in suite categories, and 24-hour butler service across the property. Major suite categories include the Studio Apartments (residence-style units in the 2020 wing with full kitchens, available for extended stays), the Garcia Suites (period-true Belle Époque colour with Champs-Élysées windows), and the U Pavarotti Suite (named for Luciano Pavarotti's preferred unit during his Paris recording years). The Marta Suite — the largest at 165 square metres on the top floor — has a private terrace overlooking the corner the brasserie defines.
Dining is the central proposition. Fouquet's brasserie at street level operates as it has since 1899, serving 250–300 covers per service across the famous red-velvet banquettes; tables on the heated outdoor terrace are the most coveted seats on the Champs-Élysées and are not held for hotel guests automatically — book at reservation. The contemporary Le Joy restaurant operates upstairs as the hotel's modern French alternative; the Marta Bar opens onto a private rear terrace; the historic Lucien Barrière Bar handles cocktails. The 800-square-metre Spa Diane Barrière features a 17-metre swimming pool, six treatment rooms, sauna, hammam, and a Biologique Recherche treatment programme — the largest spa of any Champs-Élysées corridor hotel.
Service is calibrated for the entertainment-industry guest the hotel inherited with the brasserie — discreet, fast, and with an extensive book of restaurant access, after-show driver arrangements, and Cannes/Deauville onward connections through the wider Barrière estate. The position is the second proposition: the corner the hotel occupies is the corner of the Champs-Élysées, three minutes from the Arc de Triomphe, four from the Crazy Horse, six from the George V métro, eight from the Trocadéro by foot. For an extended Paris stay calibrated to the Champs-Élysées corridor — fashion, theatre, café-society — Fouquet's is the unanswerable address.
For a Paris anniversary calibrated around the Champs-Élysées experience — café-society at Fouquet's, an 800-square-metre spa with a 17-metre pool, a corner-suite balcony over the avenue — there is no closer match in the city. The Marta Suite at the milestone tier; a Garcia Suite for the calibrated weekend; dinner at Fouquet's reads as Paris in the singular.
Honeymoon Paris bookings concentrate at Fouquet's for the room-plus-restaurant package: the Garcia Suite or U Pavarotti Suite for the address, dinner at Fouquet's for the cliché executed correctly, the Spa Diane Barrière the morning after, and the concierge handling Eiffel Tower private-elevator timings, Versailles drivers, and the Crazy Horse private-table arrangements.
For Paris business stays in the Champs-Élysées corridor — luxury, fashion, M&A, advertising — Fouquet's is the most fluent option. The brasserie at lunch is the most used informal-deal table on the avenue; Le Joy handles the more buttoned-down dinner; the Studio Apartments take residence-style stays of two weeks or more without breaking the hotel-service register.
46 Avenue George V
75008 Paris
France
Métro George V (line 1) at the door; Arc de Triomphe 3 minutes; Crazy Horse 4 minutes; Trocadéro 8 minutes
101 rooms (incl. 35 suites)
Classic Rooms from €1,150/night
Garcia Suites from €2,400/night
Studio Apartments from €3,200/night
Marta Suite from €18,000/night
Check-in: 3:00 PM
Check-out: 12:00 PM
Hotel opened 2006; rebuilt 2017–2020
Fouquet's brasserie continuous since 1899
Fouquet's brasserie (1899)
Le Joy contemporary restaurant
Marta Bar & Lucien Barrière Bar
800-sqm Spa Diane Barrière
17-metre indoor pool
24-hour butler service
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