Kimpton's first European flagship, set inside a 1908 Art Nouveau landmark a block from Place Vendôme — 149 rooms by Charles Zana, the Sequoia restaurant on the ground floor, and a rooftop bar with the easiest 360° Paris view in the 9th.
"Kimpton's quietly excellent Paris debut: a Beaux-Arts landmark turned over to Charles Zana, with the city's least pretentious five-star rooftop bar and a heated indoor pool nobody can find on the second try."
Kimpton St Honoré Paris opened in October 2021 inside a Beaux-Arts and Art Nouveau building constructed in 1908 by the architect Adolphe Bocage at 27–29 Boulevard des Capucines, immediately east of Place Vendôme. The building had been the headquarters of a major French insurer for most of the 20th century before being sold to a property group that handed the conversion to IHG and Kimpton's design partners. It is the first Kimpton in continental Europe and was deliberately positioned as the brand's European flagship — a brief that translated into a larger budget per room than any other Kimpton property in the group.
The 149 rooms (including 26 suites) were designed by Paris-based interior designer Charles Zana — the same designer who shaped Lafayette Anticipations and several of the major Vendôme jewellery flagships — with a vocabulary of soft pastels, walnut joinery, marble, custom brass hardware, and a near-total absence of the conference-grade carpeting that disqualifies most large-format hotels at this price. The named suites occupy the corner positions on the upper floors, with several offering small wrought-iron Art Nouveau balconies onto Boulevard des Capucines and views across the Opéra Garnier. The Premier and Royal Suites are the two-bedroom units; the standard King Rooms run a generous 28–32 square metres.
Sequoia, the ground-floor restaurant and patio, runs a California-meets-Paris menu under chef Estelle Gounet — light, plant-forward, with a much-praised wood-fired centrepiece and a glass-roofed patio that is one of the most pleasant breakfast rooms in central Paris. Montecito, the rooftop bar and garden, is the asset that has done the most to put Kimpton St Honoré on the Paris weekend circuit: the only walk-in-friendly five-star rooftop with proper Opéra-and-Vendôme sightlines, open from cocktail hour through midnight in season. The basement spa includes a 17-metre indoor heated pool — rare at this size in central Paris — and a small but functional fitness centre.
Kimpton's American service signatures — the daily evening wine hour in the lobby, the loaner bicycles, the genuine welcome to small dogs — are the differentiator from the surrounding Paris five-stars. The hotel is not trying to compete with the Ritz on Place Vendôme grandeur or with Le Meurice on contemporary art collecting; it is competing with the Costes generation of design-forward five-stars on a more grown-up brief, and on most nights it wins that argument.
For a Paris anniversary that wants design and rooftop without crossing into Place-Vendôme-grandeur pricing, Kimpton St Honoré is the right answer. The Premier Suite plus a table at Sequoia plus an evening at Montecito is the textbook arrangement; €1,400–2,000/night gets a corner suite with a balcony onto the boulevard and the Opéra rooftops.
Montecito on the rooftop is a soft pre-game venue rather than a club; the Royal Suite (two bedrooms, central) is the group's best buy in the Opéra district at this price point. Walking distance to Costes for dinner, to the Buddha-Bar, and to the 1st-arrondissement rooftop circuit. Concierge handles late check-out as standard, which it isn't elsewhere.
For Opéra-district business stays — the Place Vendôme jewellery houses, the Boulevard Haussmann banking offices, the Galeries Lafayette commercial property — Kimpton St Honoré is the most comfortable five-star at the price. Ten-minute taxi to La Défense before traffic builds; meeting rooms run to 60-person capacity; the lobby evening wine hour is the most useful informal-meeting tool of any Paris hotel.
27–29 Boulevard des Capucines
75009 Paris
France
Opéra metro 2 minutes; Place Vendôme 5 minutes; Madeleine 4 minutes; CDG 40 minutes by car
149 rooms (incl. 26 suites)
King Rooms from €505/night
Junior Suites from €900/night
Premier Suites from €1,400/night
Royal Suite from €3,500/night
Check-in: 3:00 PM
Check-out: 12:00 PM
Opened 2021; Kimpton's first hotel in continental Europe
1908 Beaux-Arts / Art Nouveau building by Adolphe Bocage
Sequoia (ground-floor restaurant)
Montecito (rooftop bar, in season)
17-metre indoor heated pool
Spa & fitness centre
Daily lobby wine hour
Loaner bicycles & dog-friendly
From €505/night. Suites with Boulevard des Capucines balconies book three months ahead for May–June and Fashion Week; rooftop dinner reservations should be requested at booking.
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