Hôtel Barrière Le Fouquet's


Hôtel Barrière Le Fouquet's Paris is a 5-star hotel located at 46 Avenue George V in Paris, France. The hotel, owned by the French hospitality and casino group Barrière, opened on 6 November 2006 and is a member of The Leading Hotels of the World.
The restaurant Fouquet's, known for its red awnings on the Champs-Élysées, is part of the venue. The hotel received its fifth star on 11 June 2009, and it won the category of "Europe's Leading City Hotel" at the World Travel Awards in 2013.

History

In the 1990s, the Barrière family purchases the restaurant Fouquet's, along with seven buildings surrounding it, to open the first hotel of the group in the French capital city a few years later, in 2006. The hotel was developed with the collaboration of the architect Édouard François and designer Jacques Garcia.
In 2017, the hotel closed for a few months for a renovation programme. It reopened on 1 July 2017.

Restaurants and bars

The venue includes 2 restaurants and 3 bars:
The first restaurant of the establishment, which was called "The Diana" in tribute to Diane Barrière-Desseigne, with Jean-Yves Leuranguer and Christophe Schmitt as chefs and Claude Ducruzet as pastry chef, is mentioned in Hallier, L'Edernel jeune homme published in 2016.