Le Meurice Paris Restores Its Rooms Under Alain Ducasse's Direction

Le Meurice has spent the past several seasons quietly restoring itself, one section at a time, under the direction of Alain Ducasse's team and led on the ground by Clémentine Bouchon. About a hundred rooms had been completed as of last year, with the sixth floor finishing in September 2025 and the Suites Castiglione following in 2026 under architects Lally and Berger. It is a slow, deliberate approach for a hotel on Rue de Rivoli that has hosted kings and artists for well over a century, and one that seems designed to protect the building's character rather than modernize it away.

The kitchen has been just as active. Restaurant Le Dalí, under Bouchon's own direction, introduced a new lunch menu built around traditional French technique filtered through her own point of view, and welcomed Japanese chef Masayoshi Hanada for a limited culinary residency called Hanadalí. For 2026, the restaurant is planning a broader relaunch of its lunch and afternoon tea programs, alongside a quarterly series of winemaker dinners called Les Jeudis de Vignerons running in March, May, October, and December.

None of this touches the hotel's headline restaurant, which continues to hold two Michelin stars under Ducasse's name and remains one of the more consistent fine dining rooms in Paris regardless of what is happening elsewhere in the building. For guests who have stayed here before, the changes are the kind you notice mostly in the details: a newly finished floor, a refreshed lunch menu, a slightly different rhythm to the tea service, rather than anything that changes what the hotel fundamentally is.

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