49 rooms by Dorothée Meilichzon at 18 rue Bachaumont — opened September 2015 after three-year restoration of the historic Bachaumont brasserie building, with Experimental Group F&B and the most considered four-star design statement in Montorgueil.
"Dorothée Meilichzon's first hotel was the strongest debut in Parisian boutique design this decade — fluted glass, terrazzo and pastel cobalt that have since shaped a generation of follow-on properties. The Experimental Group restaurant in the lobby is a Montorgueil destination in its own right."
Hôtel Bachaumont opened in September 2015 at 18 rue Bachaumont, 75002 — the historic Bachaumont brasserie building in the heart of the Montorgueil quarter, named for the 18th-century journalist Louis Petit de Bachaumont who frequented the original Café Procope nearby. The site previously housed the Bachaumont brasserie and a small mid-century hotel; the property was acquired in 2012 by hotelier Stéphane and Jérôme Achache, who commissioned French designer Dorothée Meilichzon (Chzon) to lead a comprehensive three-year restoration. Bachaumont was Meilichzon's first hotel project and remains the property that defined her hospitality vocabulary — fluted glass screens, pastel cobalt and ochre, terrazzo bathrooms, brass detailing, custom rattan furniture — a vocabulary that subsequently shaped Hôtel des Grands Boulevards (2017), Hôtel Saint-Marc (2018), Le Roch (2017) and Calle Junin (2019).
The 49 rooms are arranged across the building's six floors with a glass-roofed central courtyard that brings natural light into the interior categories. The room categories are five — Cosy (15-18 sqm overlooking the courtyard), Comfort (18-22 sqm), Superior (22-28 sqm street-facing), Junior Suite (32 sqm) and Suite Bachaumont (50 sqm on the top floor with private terrace). The room palette is signature Meilichzon: pale terracotta, ochre and cobalt, brass picture rails, vintage Mulhouse fabric, custom Pierre Frey patterns. Standard categories include Nespresso, Bose audio, walnut floors and terrazzo bathrooms with Buly 1803 toiletries. The fluted-glass shower screens — a Meilichzon signature now widely copied — were debuted at this property.
The Restaurant Bachaumont is the ground-floor headline kitchen — a French brasserie operated by the Experimental Group (the Romée de Goriainoff–Pierre-Charles Cros–Olivier Bon trio behind Experimental Cocktail Club, Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels, Le Mary Celeste, Davies and Brook in London). The dining room reads as a Meilichzon-rebuilt brasserie — fluted-glass partitions, banquettes in cobalt velvet, the bar in green Verde Alpi marble — with chef Tomás Loubet (Argentine-Parisian, ex-Septime, ex-Rhône) running a French bistro register with strong Latin-American detailing. The bar service runs from 4 PM to 2 AM as a working evening room with the Experimental Group cocktail menu. The Bachaumont is the only Paris four-star where the lobby restaurant alone justifies a destination booking.
The position is the proposition. Montorgueil is the most-walked food street in central Paris — Stohrer (1730, the oldest pâtisserie in Paris), L'Escargot Montorgueil, Maison Stohrer, the Sunday-pedestrianised market street — and the Bachaumont sits one block off it. Sentier Métro is three minutes north; Étienne Marcel two minutes south; Châtelet five minutes south. The Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection is six minutes south on foot; Les Halles is six minutes; the Marais begins eight minutes east. The Bachaumont is the strongest sub-€400 design boutique in central Paris, and is among the few four-stars in the city where the rate ceiling is lifted by the Suite Bachaumont's private terrace category.
For Paris solo retreats with a food-and-design orientation, the Bachaumont is the precise mid-rate answer — Montorgueil's pedestrian food street at the door, the Restaurant Bachaumont in the lobby for the unstructured solo dinner, Comfort or Superior category as the mid-stay booking. The lobby reads as a working day-room without being prescriptive about it, and the bar service from 4 PM is the cleanest solo-evening room in the 2nd.
For a sub-€500 anniversary that reframes Paris as a working creative city rather than a Belle Époque set piece, the Suite Bachaumont with the private rooftop terrace is the unmatched booking. The Restaurant Bachaumont handles the anniversary dinner reflexively; the Stohrer pâtisserie is 90 seconds away for the Saturday-morning breakfast walk; the Sunday Montorgueil market begins 30 metres from the front door.
For mid-rate bachelor/ette weekends, the Bachaumont is the under-€400 Montorgueil answer — a Junior Suite or Suite Bachaumont as the gathering room, Restaurant Bachaumont's private dining for the group dinner, the Experimental Cocktail Club five minutes east for the night programme. The rooftop Suite Bachaumont's terrace handles 12-15 guests for an aperitif before the evening starts.
18 rue Bachaumont
75002 Paris
France
Sentier Métro 3 min; Étienne Marcel 2 min; Les Halles 6 min on foot; Bourse de Commerce 6 min south
49 rooms (5 categories incl. 1 suite)
Cosy (15-18 sqm) from €280/night
Comfort (18-22 sqm) from €350/night
Superior (22-28 sqm) from €450/night
Suite Bachaumont (50 sqm + terrace) from €1,200/night
Check-in: 3:00 PM
Check-out: 12:00 PM
Opened September 2015
Designer: Dorothée Meilichzon (Chzon)
Restaurant Bachaumont (Experimental Group)
Bachaumont Bar (cocktail programme to 2 AM)
Glass-roofed central courtyard
Buly 1803 toiletries
Suite Bachaumont private rooftop terrace
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From €280/night. The Suite Bachaumont with the rooftop terrace books two months ahead for spring weekends; the Restaurant Bachaumont evening tables require booking 2-3 weeks ahead. Fashion Week and Christmas books the property out three months in advance.
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