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In regards to dining experiences, the hotel offers a curated dining
and Michelin-starred dining venue, Le Cinq restaurant. Under the
careful supervision of director and one of the world’s best som-
meliers, Eric Beaumard and proficient chef, Christian Le Squer,
the restaurant presents an exquisite dining room and a classic
French menu that adapts newer and lighter cooking styles with
fresh regional ingredients and also balances delicate flavours. To
the chef, cooking is about offering an unforgettable moment and
sensation to guests. Squer also discloses that “The taste of a dish
actually comes to me before I find the ingredients for it. It’s an
intuitive process. It just hits you, a bit like love at first sight”. The
interiors recur to a classical Franco-Anglican style featuring as-
tonishing furniture pieces like Louis XIV cabinets and gold-plated
medallion chairs.
In addition, the hotel also has two other dining establishments,
L’George and L’Orangerie. The former presents a flavoured and
fresh Mediterranean-style cuisine and is headed by Chef Simone
Zanoni. The interiors of this restaurant were designed by Pierre-
Yves Rochon, who created a timeless, chic and serene ambient
through modern and Parisian influences. Some of the features
that stand out the most is the striking vaulted ceiling and the
contemporary artwork by artist Junior Fritz Jacquet. With an in-
timate atmosphere, L’Orangerie has a 7-metre-high glass and steel
structure following the Art Deco style. The restaurant offers tra-
ditional French contemporary cuisine prepared by Chef David Bi-
zet, esteeming the values of elegance, refinement, femininity and
respect for nature. Rochon was once again responsible for the
interiors complementing them with elegant mosaic with plant
motifs covering the floor and lengthened Lalique lamps.
The Hotel also has a Pop up Spa by Jeff Leatham, situated on the
4th floor of the hotel, with an extremely welcoming and con-
temporary quintessence. The spa is bathed with natural lighting
and a Parisian ambience. The spa has four glamorous treatment
rooms, a fitness room geared with the latest equipment, as well
as a nail and hair salon. One of the signature treatments of the
spa is a relaxing orange blossom body scrub, which is followed by
a relaxing massage with warm shea butter.
The Swimming pool, the sauna and the hammam will suffer ren-
ovations during 2018 in order to embrace and welcome guests
with arms wide open.
Out of curiosity, the Beatles once composed one of their most
brilliant songs, “I feel fine” at the hotel and it was also in that
moment that the famed pillow fight photo by Henry Benson
took place. Hollywood and haute couture icon, Elizabeth Taylor
stayed in the Penthouse suite during the honeymoon with her
second husband, Conrad Hilton.
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