The bedrooms function a tapestry cover.Credit score: Provide
The creativity within the lodge’s public areas pulses via the 61 rooms, which vary from 20-square-metre “classics” to family-friendly interconnecting duplex suites with views of Paris. Overlooking an inside patio-winter backyard that includes dreamy wall panels by Spanish artist Sofia Pega, our 30-square-metre deluxe room has a number of hanging touches, notably a cover with a tapestry of a rural idyll above our queen mattress. There’s surreal crustacean-patterned wallpaper within the wardrobe, the place a minibar has complimentary comfortable drinks, infusions and a espresso machine. Different helpful facilities are the room’s electrical curtains, the Toto rest room (with its toasty seat) and the aromatic Diptyque merchandise within the separate mustard-tiled bathe room.
Meals + drink
Quirky but cosy, Boubale is Le Grand Mazarin’s street-level bar-restaurant. Breakfast right here has a Gallic flavour, with the likes of pastries, French toast and charcuterie, however for lunch and dinner the delicacies embraces the Ashkenazi Jewish heritage of each Le Marais and Jerusalem-born, Michelin-rated chef Assaf Granit.
Quirky but cosy, Boubale is Le Grand Mazarin’s street-level bar-restaurant.
Attracting Parisians and lodge company alike, his dishes have jap European and Center Japanese influences, corresponding to beef cheek goulash with Hungarian paprika and gnocchis, and seafood kneidlach (matzah balls). Count on upbeat background music and an attractive menu of wines and cocktails. Downstairs there’s a late-night speakeasy-style bar with dwell DJs.
Out + about
Parisian artist Jacques Merle has painted a ceiling fresco of Narcissus above the pool.
Le Marais is ace for wandering, window-shopping and people-watching, and also you’ll discover intriguing artefacts in elegant previous mansions-cum-museums just like the Picasso Museum or the luxurious (free) Carnavalet, the place Paris’ engrossing historical past is explored. Past the neighbourhood, the Pompidou Centre, the Louvre and Notre-Dame Cathedral (which reopens to guests in December 2024) are all inside a 15-minute stroll. Fancy going additional? Resort de Ville metro station is simply 100 metres from Le Grand Mazarin, the place the concierge can even fortunately make suggestions.
One of many bigger visitor suites.
The decision
Exquisitely crafted and fantastically positioned, this can be a fabulous addition to Paris’ high-end lodge scene. Good (English-speaking) workers, too.
Necessities
The facade of Le Grand Mazarin.
Rooms from €520 ($863) an evening. 7 Rue de la Verrerie, Paris, France. Ph: +33 1 8364 0065. See legrandmazarin.com
Our ranking out of 5
★★★★½
Spotlight
The lodge’s consideration to design element, from the dainty leaf-shaped ceiling lamps to that beautiful mural above the pool.
Lowlight
Dilemmas, dilemmas. You’ll wish to savour Le Grand Mazarin. It’s pretty and also you’ll be paying a good whack to remain right here. However Paris is your oyster, so that you’ll wish to be outdoors as a lot as attainable.
The author stayed as a visitor of Le Grand Mazarin