George V Paris: which restaurant to book, Le Cinq, L’Orangerie or Le George

Le Cinq has been Christian Le Squer’s since 2014, and the hotel credits him with its third star. The MICHELIN Guide describes columns, mouldings and tall bouquets in soft light from the interior garden, and a chef from Morbihan who pairs sea bass with caviar and lait ribot, the Breton buttermilk. The hotel adds that the tablecloths, china and silver were made for it.

On the carte read on 11 October 2026 that sea bass costs €190. Gratinated onions in the Parisian style are €120; foie gras “like a pebble”, poached in an iodised broth, €140; Dublin Bay prawns with warm mayonnaise and buckwheat pancakes €185; the spaghetti gratin with ham, ceps and black truffle €210. Wild turbot is €240 and Wagyu beef €280. The tasting menu, called The Epicurean Escape of Christian Le Squer, runs from foie gras and poached oysters to Oscietra caviar and Wagyu, and ends on kouign-amann, the pastry of his childhood.

L’Orangerie is the glass-roofed room on the Marble Courtyard, where Bertrand Noeureuil cooks by the season. The Guide gives it 2 stars and notes a hanging porcelain sculpture of thousands of bougainvillea petals. This autumn it serves 2 menus: 6 courses, with a broth, wild forest mushrooms, shellfish glazed with hollandaise and red mullet in a salmis, which the menu calls sea woodcock; or 9, which add a choice of hare, Mont d’Or with a pine sap infusion and a chocolate dessert infused with camphor. Wine pairings cost €205 or €340 with 6 courses and €240 or €370 with 9.

Le George is Simone Zanoni’s: Italian and Mediterranean cooking under a 7-metre conservatory, with tall windows on the courtyard. It has one star in the Guide, which also lists it among the best Italian restaurants in Paris. On 11 October the weekday lunch offered yellowtail crudo with sea bass tartare, veal agnolotti, pollock with lemon sauce and wood-fired Aveyron lamb. The tasting menu costs €160 a person, with seared langoustine for €15 more and the chef’s pasta selection for €35 more.

La Galerie, hung with Flemish tapestries and nineteenth-century paintings, feeds the hotel for the rest of the day. Its menu has an onion soup at €41, snails with garlic and parsley at €39, beef tartare with fries at €56, a croque monsieur with ham, Saint-Nectaire and truffle at €62 and a Simmental tenderloin flambéed with Rémy Martin cognac at €95.

On Google, a guest who proposed during a stay wrote in September 2026 that dinner at Le Cinq was a highlight and the wine selection phenomenal. In May 2026 a diner at La Galerie found the fish overcooked and was offered another dish; the same month someone at Le George praised everything from the pasta trio to the sea bass.

A 3-star meal at midday means Epicure at Le Bristol, where a jacket is mandatory. Alain Ducasse at Le Meurice is the room to choose on a Monday, when Le Cinq is shut. Espadon at the Ritz starts earliest, at 6.30pm, and charges €290 a person for a table cancelled inside 48 hours.