Hotel Sezz

Eating

This is essentially a B&B hotel, but there's also an in-room snack and sushi service for those with sudden attacks of the munchies. There is a small dining room with a glass roof and a couple of ornate birdcage tables at either end of the room, each with padded pink leather seats.

Breakfast is served between 7am and 11am. Unless you want it brought to your room it’s a help-yourself affair (tea and coffee are freshly made and brought to you). You get fresh fruit salads, sweet figs, muesli with sunflower and sesame seeds mixed in, hams and cheeses, and baskets of croissants, brioches and pains au chocolat. Freshly-squeezed orange juice comes at a premium, but there are jugs of concentrated juice on tap, plus soy milk and cow’s milk.

There’s a substantial room service menu. Sushi from a local Japanese restaurant is delivered until 10.30pm. On top of that you get 24-hour service for soups, pastas, fish, meat, even Ben and Jerry’s ice cream.

Before going out to dine, have a pre-dinner drink at the bar La Grande Dame, then wander up to Rue de Passy for a wide choice of restaurants. You’ll get good brasserie food and friendly service at Le Tournesol, steak frites and a student crowd at the bar around the corner; or book three months in advance for a table at two-Michelin-starred L’Astrance. Staff will happily advise on what’s hot and book you a table.