Since its opening in 1925 as a "travelers’ hotel", the owners of Hôtel Le Bristol – first the Jammet family and, since 1979, the Oetker family – have constantly strived to create ideal conditions and surroundings for a perfect stay.
Le Bristol is a magnificent 18th century style palace with fine antique furniture, an outstanding collection of Gobelins and Lille tapestries and old master paintings, many of which were acquired from an auction of reserve works staged by the Louvre Museum before the Second World War. Le Bristol has been consistently renovated and modernized since 1980 and every year introduces new improvements to conserve the hotel’s treasured heritage.
It has now entered a new phase with the arrival of Didier Le Calvez as General Manager. Many changes are now on the way : the total renovation of Le Bristol’s residential area, which was completed at the end of April, and the creation of a breakfast service and a special lunch and dinner menu at the hotel’s restaurant, Le 114 Faubourg. The hotel’s new restaurant services will also include an invitation to an independent winegrower to come to the hotel on the evening of the first Monday of every month. The producer’s wine will then be featured for the entire month and will be selected to complement a specific menu for that evening. Another big new initiative introduced by Didier Le Calvez is the creation of a breakfast prepared to order at the Gastronomic Restaurant, with personalised service that is particularly suited to business breakfasts. Finally, from 8.30pm to 11.30pm every evening, Le Bristol’s bar will host a pianist, who will bring Paris’s most famous meeting place alive with music.