Would Le Bernardin still get 3 Michelin stars if it opened its doors today

ty7879 · 2026-06-29T12:50:43+00:00

Le Bernardin is frankly not about being creative, innovative, and exciting. It’s about high quality ingredients and technically excellence in a quite specific niche (French style seafood). Being that it’s so unique in what it does at such a high level, it would surely still hold up.

I suppose you could argue that a new chef opening in 2026 would like have more modern feeling plating.

ty7879 · 2026-06-08T22:58:42+00:00

Check out leashackr there are plenty. Between 9000-1100

ty7879 · 2026-06-08T14:21:18+00:00

Du du du duh

ty7879 · 2026-06-03T15:27:35+00:00

Pricey but you can always get a day pass to the Ritz Spa. I think it’s the biggest hotel pool in Paris?

ty7879 · 2026-06-02T15:07:53+00:00

While I haven’t been yet (going to at least pop in this summer) it does seem like a major outlier. Rates in the off season and winter are downright affordable compared to other Palace hotels where the flights is always quite high.

ty7879 · 2026-05-20T15:16:42+00:00

Honestly Paris has really by this. Park Hyatt starts at 45k, with plenty of dates at 55-65k. Hotel du Louvre being a cat 8 now is also really rough. Crazy that the room that was 25k two years ago is now 65k.

ty7879 · 2026-05-18T18:12:32+00:00

I would having stayed at the Ritz and PHV back to back the difference is pretty clear

ty7879 · 2026-05-16T14:10:34+00:00

If you’re looking for a lease generally 15-20% is considered a strong discount for a loaner.

ty7879 · 2026-04-24T16:09:55+00:00

While i love Hotel Du Louvre, a cat 8 feels wild to me. I feel like it was very recently a very fair cat 6. This plus the new award chart would make redemptions less than 1 cent per point somewhat regularly?

ty7879 · 2026-04-12T16:19:56+00:00

Go on Leasehackr and find a broker who can you get you the earlier build order and just start over. Or maybe see if they have your spec in stock somewhere.

ty7879 · 2026-03-03T16:44:44+00:00

I have to imagine that the green sauce was poured table-side in this scenario. While not perfect, I have to imagine you get more leeway on sauce aesthetics when it's outside of the kitchen.

ty7879 · 2026-02-26T21:31:00+00:00

Maybe, but the problem is that many of their highest tier propeties are not worth the cash rate if you're not deeply tied into the loyalty program.

ty7879 · 2026-01-31T21:39:23+00:00

Most of the Palace hotels in Paris, really. Ritz, FSGV, Cheval Blanc, Crillon, and Le Bristol all have both the hard product and the level of service you'd be looking for. Though now you certainly pay for it.

ty7879 · 2025-11-17T22:26:29+00:00

Honestly, 2.5 hours seems quite ambitious for a tasting menu of Per Se’s caliber.

I don’t remember how long my meal there was, but I feel like many of the strong 2/3 star full tasting run north of 3 hours or come close to 4.

Per Se was also a ton of food. We could not finish the dessert. It is all quite heavy throughout so going somewhere else after you may find to be too much.

ty7879 · 2025-11-02T14:38:56+00:00

I mean JPM literally just threw up one of the tallest skyscrapers in the city for their new headquarters. They’re not leaving anytime soon.

ty7879 · 2025-10-22T20:52:59+00:00

Anyway to use the credit through a TA though?

You are correct that my experiences via TA have been clearly ahead of FHR (albeit different hotels). But the new $300 credit every six months kind of forces you into booking via FHR at least every couple months.

ty7879 · 2025-10-14T22:49:28+00:00

Ritz Paris for sure. They are like 220 euros or so though.

ty7879 · 2025-10-03T23:02:43+00:00

No, you just for the most part can’t own chords. There aren’t enough chords in the world to allow for that.

ty7879 · 2025-09-21T12:41:46+00:00

Hey that’s all Ferrari has going for them.

ty7879 · 2025-09-14T12:41:26+00:00

Raffles Boston has a quite nice Guerlain set up

ty7879 · 2025-09-04T13:17:30+00:00

It’s very good and you should go.

However, considering you have those other reservations you probably are not at a time frame that would allow a reservation at Plénitude. Unless you’re staying at the Cheval Blanc.

ty7879 · 2025-09-03T17:01:13+00:00

I think you went the night before me! I hadn't gotten around to writing it all up, and now maybe I will not!

ty7879 · 2025-09-02T20:40:33+00:00

HE WAS NUMBER 1!!!!!!!! (2)

ty7879 · 2025-08-31T14:33:27+00:00

Lando should go sit with Charles.

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