Epicure Paris at Le Bristol: 3 Michelin Stars, Dress Code and Prices

Epicure is the three-Michelin-star restaurant inside Le Bristol Paris at 112 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008. Chef Arnaud Faye, a Meilleur Ouvrier de France, has run the kitchen since spring 2024, when he succeeded Éric Frechon after 25 years. Service runs Tuesday to Saturday, 12:00 to 13:30 for lunch and 19:30 to 21:30 for dinner, and the restaurant is closed Sunday and Monday. The tasting menu is €490 for eight courses or €360 for six at lunch, and the vegetable tasting menu is €360 and €280. On dress, the restaurant asks for elegant dress and states that a jacket is not compulsory but remains highly recommended.

The hotel styles the restaurant simply as Epicure, though it is widely written as L’Épicure, and the property itself appears as both Le Bristol hotel and Hôtel Le Bristol Paris. All three refer to the same Michelin star restaurant in Paris at 112 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré.

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Epicure Paris at a glance

Detail	Current information
Full name	Epicure, at Le Bristol Paris (Oetker Collection)
Address	112 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris
Chef	Arnaud Faye, Meilleur Ouvrier de France, since spring 2024
Michelin rating	Three stars
Lunch	Tuesday to Saturday, 12:00 to 13:30
Dinner	Tuesday to Saturday, 19:30 to 21:30
Closed	Sunday and Monday
Tasting menu	€490 (8 courses); €360 (6 courses, lunch only)
Vegetable tasting menu	€360 (8 courses); €280 (6 courses, lunch only)
A la carte range	Starters €105 to €130, fish €105 to €145, meat €120 to €180, desserts €46 to €53
Dress code	Elegant dress; jacket not compulsory but highly recommended
Pets	Not accepted
Phone	+33 1 53 43 43 40
Email	[email protected]
Nearest metro	Miromesnil (lines 9 and 13), about 3 minutes on foot

What is the dress code at Epicure Paris?

Epicure asks for elegant dress, and its own guest information states that wearing a jacket is not compulsory but remains highly recommended. That wording matters, because older write-ups, including the earlier version of this page, describe Epicure as a room where men are asked to wear a jacket. The restaurant’s own guest information does not say that. A guest in a well-cut shirt and tailored trousers meets the published requirement.

There is no published tie requirement, no separate rule for women, and no published list of banned garments. The rule is a standard, not a checklist, and the same standard is published for lunch and for dinner. Trainers and torn jeans are not formally forbidden anywhere in that text; they simply sit outside what elegant dress is asking for.

Question	Answer
Is a jacket required for men?	No. Highly recommended, not compulsory
Is a tie required?	No published tie requirement
Is there a separate rule for women?	No. The published rule is “elegant dress” for all guests
Does lunch differ from dinner?	The published rule is identical for both services
Are pets allowed?	No. The restaurant states pets are not accepted

Who is the chef at Epicure Paris now?

Arnaud Faye is the chef at Epicure. He took over in spring 2024 and Le Bristol lists him as chef de cuisine at Epicure and head of the hotel’s kitchens. Faye holds the title of Meilleur Ouvrier de France, an award made once every four years, and he arrived from a career built in French palace-hotel kitchens. Epicure has kept its three Michelin stars through the handover.

His cooking at Epicure is lighter and more vegetable-led than the room’s previous register, and Le Bristol describes the tasting menu as shaped by seasonal produce and refined French technique. It is French cuisine in the palace-hotel tradition of gastronomy rather than a departure from it. Le Bristol describes his menu as one “where the vegetable is king”, and the carte backs that up: a black truffle and celeriac risotto appears among the starters at €120, priced level with the fish courses, and there is a full eight-course vegetable tasting menu rather than a single vegetarian dish.

Éric Frechon, also written Éric Fréchon, ran Epicure from 1999 to 2024 and won its third Michelin star in March 2009. If you have read about the stuffed macaroni with black truffle, artichoke and foie gras, or the Bresse chicken cooked in a pig’s bladder, those are Frechon-era dishes and they are not on the current carte. Anything you find online describing Frechon as the current chef predates spring 2024.

How much does it cost to eat at Epicure Paris?

The eight-course tasting menu costs €490 per person and the six-course lunch version costs €360. The vegetable tasting menu is cheaper at €360 for eight courses and €280 for six at lunch. Building a meal from the carte lands in a similar place: a starter, a main and a dessert comes to €256 at the cheapest combination on the current carte and €363 at the most expensive, before wine. Taxes and service are included in every price below.

Menu	Courses	Price	Availability
Tasting Menu	8	€490	Lunch and dinner
Tasting Menu	6	€360	Lunch only; drops the turbot and the vanilla dessert
Vegetable Tasting Menu	8	€360	Lunch and dinner
Vegetable Tasting Menu	6	€280	Lunch only; drops the truffle and the vanilla dessert

What is on the Epicure menu, dish by dish?

The à la carte menu runs four starters, three fish, four meats, a cheese course and five desserts, and every dish carries a published price. The table below is the current carte as Le Bristol publishes it. Half-portions of starters carry a 15 per cent supplement, and all meat is sourced from France and Spain.

Course	Dish	Price
Starter	Mackerel, fennel and bottarga, caviar remoulade	€105
Starter	Crab, buckwheat and salicornia, light coral mayonnaise	€115
Starter	Melanosporum black truffle, celeriac and celery risotto	€120
Starter	Blue lobster, stuffed semi-dried tomatoes, geranium vinaigrette	€130
Fish	Red mullet, grilled eggplant, fish soup and basil veloute	€105
Fish	Sole, Touraine carrots and verbena	€120
Fish	Turbot, celtuce and lovage, creamy cockle jus	€145
Meat	Pigeon, girolles and verbena peach, jus a la diable	€120
Meat	Milk-fed veal sweetbread, cauliflower with Menton lemon	€155
Meat	Milk-fed lamb, onion stuffed with black truffle	€180
Meat	Poultry from Bresse, served in two courses, for two guests	€310
Cheese	Fresh and matured cheeses from the cellar	€39
Dessert	Peach poached with redcurrant, almond from Polignac	€46
Dessert	Rhubarb, caramelised arlette and red shiso	€46
Dessert	Strawberry, yogurt meringue shell, parsley sorbet	€46
Dessert	Grand Cru chocolate from Sao Tome, cocoa meringue	€49
Dessert	Vanilla Pompona from Peru, crispy gavottes and light cream	€53

What is the Epicure Bresse chicken, and can one person order it?

The Bresse poultry costs €310 and is served for two guests only, across two courses. The first brings roasted chicken breast with leeks, girolles and crayfish in a tarragon jus; the second is a white chicken pudding in tarragon broth. A solo diner cannot order it, which is the single most common disappointment for people who arrive having read about Epicure’s chicken.

This is not the same dish as the Frechon-era Bresse chicken cooked in a pig’s bladder that most older articles describe. The bird and the two-service structure survived the handover; the preparation did not. If you want it, say so when you book, because a €310 shared main reshapes the rest of the order.

Does Epicure Paris have a vegetarian menu?

Yes. Epicure publishes a full Vegetable Tasting Menu at €360 for eight courses and €280 for six at lunch, and it is the cheapest way into the room. Courses include semi-dried stuffed tomatoes with geranium jelly, fennel escabeche with anise-infused remoulade, carrot variations with verbena, the Melanosporum black truffle risotto, and an onion stuffed with black truffle in truffle jus, before cheese and two desserts.

Every ingredient list is published dish by dish, and Le Bristol marks individual dishes as vegetarian, vegan or gluten free on its menu, so specific dietary needs are worth raising at booking rather than at the table. The six-course lunch version drops the truffle course and the vanilla dessert, which is where most of the price difference sits.

When is Epicure Paris open?

Epicure serves lunch Tuesday to Saturday from 12:00 to 13:30 and dinner Tuesday to Saturday from 19:30 to 21:30. It does not serve lunch or dinner on Sunday or Monday. Breakfast runs daily from 07:30 to 10:30, which is the one service that does not close at the weekend.

Service	Days	Times
Breakfast	Daily	07:30 to 10:30
Lunch	Tuesday to Saturday	12:00 to 13:30
Dinner	Tuesday to Saturday	19:30 to 21:30
Sunday and Monday	Closed for lunch and dinner	Breakfast only

Two ordering deadlines catch people out. The six- and eight-course tasting menus must be ordered by 13:00 at lunch, and the eight-course menu by 21:00 at dinner. Book a 13:15 lunch and the tasting menu is already off the table. Le Bristol also publishes occasional holiday closures, though the list on its site still showed December 2025 dates when this page was checked, so confirm festive dates directly rather than trusting the published list.

How do you book a table at Epicure Paris?

Epicure takes a reservation through SevenRooms, by phone on +33 1 53 43 43 40, or by email at [email protected]. Both services run inside a short published window, 90 minutes at lunch and two hours at dinner, across five days a week, so the number of seatings available in any week is small. Booking well ahead matters more here than at a restaurant with rolling service.

• Name the menu when you book. Tasting menus have order cutoffs and the Bresse poultry needs two people.
• Raise dietary requirements at booking. The kitchen publishes a full vegetable menu, so it can plan a route through the meal in advance.
• Leave three hours for dinner. Service starts at 19:30 and an eight-course menu is not a 90-minute meal.
• Do not plan to bring a dog. Epicure’s published guest information states that pets are not accepted.

Where is Epicure and how do you get there?

Epicure is at 112 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in the 8th arrondissement, on the same street as the Palais de l’Élysée. The nearest metro is Miromesnil on lines 9 and 13, about three minutes on foot; Saint-Philippe-du-Roule on line 9 is about five minutes. Nearby bus stops include Haussmann-Miromesnil, La Boétie-Miromesnil and Matignon-Saint-Honoré.

This stretch of the Faubourg Saint-Honoré is a couture and gallery street rather than a restaurant district, so there is little else to walk into on the block itself. If you are building a day around the meal, the nearby public squares of the 8th arrondissement and the Champs-Élysées are both within a short walk, and our guide to things to do in Paris covers what is worth pairing with it.

What are the other restaurants at Le Bristol Paris?

Le Bristol holds four Michelin stars across two restaurants: three at Epicure and one at 114 Faubourg, its brasserie. As of this check, 114 Faubourg is listed by the hotel as temporarily closed, so Epicure is the only starred room currently serving. Le Jardin Français, Café Antonia and Le Bar du Bristol are the hotel’s other dining rooms and none of them carries a star.

Venue	Type	Michelin	Status
Epicure	Gastronomic restaurant	Three stars	Open Tuesday to Saturday
114 Faubourg	Brasserie	One star	Temporarily closed
Le Jardin Français	Courtyard restaurant	None	Open
Café Antonia	All-day cafe	None	Open
Le Bar du Bristol	Cocktail bar	None	Open

Wine Spectator awards Epicure three glasses and 114 Faubourg two, and Le Bristol describes the cellar the two rooms share as one of the largest of any palace hotel. If Epicure is booked out, our pages on Plenitude and Paris haute cuisine, La Tour d’Argent and Restaurant Lasserre cover the closest equivalents, while Le MaZenay and L’Ardoise 86 are far cheaper rooms doing serious cooking.

What is the dining room actually like?

Epicure is a light room rather than a dark-panelled one. Chandeliers, upholstered armchairs and tall windows give it the feel of a drawing room, which sets it apart from the heavier dining rooms of several older Paris three-stars. Because lunch is the daylight service and the room is glazed on one side, a lunch booking shows the space at its best. Le Bristol’s French garden is served separately by Le Jardin Français, not by Epicure.

The service model is the palace-hotel one. Le Bristol lists Arnaud Faye as head of the hotel’s kitchens rather than of Epicure alone, and it runs a dedicated sommelier team across both of its restaurants. Pace is set by the kitchen rather than by the table, which is worth knowing before booking a pre-theatre dinner: with service opening at 19:30 and tasting menus running to eight courses, this is the evening, not a stop on the way to something else.

Five mistakes people make booking Epicure

• Turning up on a Sunday or Monday. Epicure closes for lunch and dinner on both days, and this is the most common wasted trip.
• Booking late for a tasting menu. Order cutoffs are 13:00 for lunch and 21:00 for the eight-course dinner menu, so a late seating removes the option entirely.
• Planning around a jacket rule that no longer applies. Elegant dress is the requirement; the jacket is recommended, not compulsory.
• Expecting Frechon’s dishes. The stuffed macaroni and the pig’s-bladder Bresse chicken are not on the current carte under Arnaud Faye.
• Ordering the Bresse poultry alone. It is a two-guest dish at €310 and cannot be split down to a single serving.

Who should book Epicure, and who should not?

Book it if you want to taste a three-star Paris meal in daylight rather than in a dark room, if a vegetable-led menu appeals, or if you are marking an occasion where a €280 to €490 per-head budget is the point rather than the obstacle. The six-course vegetable lunch at €280 is the least expensive way any diner can eat a full tasting menu at this address.

Skip it if your schedule only allows Sunday or Monday, if you need a short meal, or if you are chasing the dishes that made the room famous a decade ago. Skip it too if you are travelling solo and had set your heart on the Bresse poultry. For a lower-cost route into serious French food, the city’s markets are a better use of the same afternoon; our guide to the best Paris food markets and our notes on tipping in France both cover ground this page does not.

Epicure Paris FAQ

Sources and what changed on this page

Every price, time and rule above comes from Le Bristol Paris’s own published pages for Epicure: the restaurant page, the menu page and the tasting-menu page, all checked on 5 August 2026. The chef handover was confirmed against the MICHELIN Guide’s own article on Arnaud Faye at Le Bristol. Metro walking times come from RATP journey data for 112 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré.

This page previously named Éric Frechon as the current executive chef throughout. He left in 2024 and Arnaud Faye now runs the kitchen, so every reference was corrected and the Frechon photograph is now captioned as the historical record it is. The page also stated that men are asked to wear jackets; the restaurant’s published rule is that a jacket is recommended but not compulsory, and that correction is the single most consequential change here. Three further claims were removed because no source supports them: that Le Bristol’s two gastronomic restaurants are Epicure and Le Jardin Français (the second starred room is 114 Faubourg, currently listed as temporarily closed, and Le Jardin Français is an unstarred courtyard restaurant); that the garden runs to more than 1,000 square metres; and a passage inviting readers to imagine Anthony Bourdain dining here, which was invention. A chicken dish “served with a delicate vanilla and chocolate sauce” and a limoncello souffle were also dropped, as neither appears on the current carte.

Last updated 5 August 2026. Prices, hours and menu composition at a restaurant of this kind change with the season, so treat the tables above as a snapshot with a source rather than a permanent record, and confirm at booking. For planning context around a meal like this, see our Paris travel tips.

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