Regina Paris Hotel

Behind the listed facade, opposite the Louvre, overlooking the Jardin des Tuileries and a few steps from the impressionists of the Musee d'Orsay, The Regina Hotel welcomes you to the centre of art's history in an elegant and refined setting, with Art Nouveau inspiration.

• Breakfast: Start the day right, the Regina Hotel takes special care with your breakfast. Take the time to savour melt-in-your-mouth pastries and delicious coffee. Or, before plunging into the busy Paris life, get off to a good start with a real meal of porridge, omelets, scrambled eggs, bacon, etc.

• Le Pluvinel and its garden courtyard: The Regina's Restaurant is a delight for all the senses, especially taste. Lobster lasagne with a Matignon de Legumes (Leeks, Carrots and celeriac) and parmesan, sole filets with purple and Jerusalem artichokes, veal snacks with foie gras and pureed celery, pheasant breast with apples and potatoes in a wine sauce. The menu concocted by Chef Herve Riebbels is filled with talent, taste and the pinch of creativity that makes gourmets shiver with delight. The Pluvined will also temp your eyes with its Art Nouveau treasures such as the superb Majorelle fireplace and tickle your nostrils with fresh scents wafting from its Garden Courtyard, a calm and verdant paradise in which guests can enjoy their meals beneath parasols in fine weather.

• English Bar and Tearoom: You thought you were in Paris and in the blink of an eyelid here you are in the heart of Victorian England. You can thank the very British decor of Bar for this jump across the English Channel. With its wood paneled walls, coffered ceiling and vermilion leather armchairs, the Regina's Bar has a decidedly English ambience. But you will be back in France by lunchtime, because the Bar's menu includes an au gratin onion dish, duck foie gras, lamb filet, sole meuniere, wine-roasted pears in short, a decidedly French menu much appreciated by both Hotel guests and locals.