This is one of the few grand hotels that still feels personal, traditional, and, dare we say, a touch quirky. The rooms in this sixteenth-arrondissement bijou are elegantly fuddy-duddy, and the service is exceptional (especially the concierges). No wonder Wes Anderson shot his 2007 short “Hotel Chevalier” here. —Christine Muhlke

Christine Muhlke, a former editor for The New York Times and Bon Appétit, is a co-author of Wine Simple, with Le Bernardin’s Aldo Sohm, and a co-author of Phaidon’s Signature Dishes That Matter. She is also the founder of culinary consultancy Bureau X and creator of the Xtine newsletter