# Hôtel Ritz Paris

The Hôtel Ritz Paris, located at 15, Place Vendôme, is a 5-star luxury hotel founded in 1898 by Césare Ritz and Auguste Escoffier. A member of The Leading Hotels of the World marketing group, the Ritz Paris is famous for hosting celebrities and members of high society.

## Quotes

* Ritz knew bette than anyone the importance of the kitchen in creating a truly luxurious hotel experience. He had built his success in the hotel business in tandem with the brilliant chef Auguste Escoffier. At the Grand Hotel in Monte Carlo and the Grand Hotel National in Lucerne, where they had both worked for years, Escoffier had dazzled guest with his cooking, inventing new dishes and finding new ways of presenting classics.
** Luke Barr, Ritz and Escoffier: The Hotelier, The Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class. New York: Clarkson Potter. 2019. p. 33. ISBN 0804186316.
* The Ritz is the highest-priced hotel in Paris. Nine dollars for a single room is the minimum here, all is elegant, chic, gay and sophisticated. The Ritz clientele is cosmopolitan to the nth degree. Diplomats, English nobility, financiers, smart women of society, buyers and actresses of the stage and screen make their reservations months in advance for the spring season. To get good accommodations, at this time of the year, you must be known to the management. If you are known, it doesn't matter about your pedigree or even bank account. Chorus girls with a certain popularity and indigent but well-known journalists are treated with more respect by the staff than wealthy but unknown tourists.
** Helen Josephy and Mary Margaret McBride, Paris is a Woman's Town. New York: Coward-McCann, Incorporated. 1929. pp. 100–101.
* ... for Mr. Field, the 51-year-old head bartender at the Hemingway Bar at the Ritz hotel, it’s just another stop on a 27-month global journey — of wandering, reinvention, freelancing, passing the time — while the famed Ritz is renovated. ... The Ritz set the gold standard for hotel living when it first opened in an 18th-century residence on the Place Vendôme in 1898. All that is landmarked will stay the same: the sculptures, marble staircases, the building facade, the Art Deco bas-reliefs and wood paneling in the Imperial suite, and the ceiling and 18th-century marquetry floors of the Chopin suite. Of course, the wood-paneled, leather-armchaired Hemingway Bar (the reincarnation of Le Petit Bar) will not be disturbed. Marlene Dietrich, Ingrid Bergman, Robert Capa, President John F. Kennedy, Henry Ford II, Noël Coward, Cole Porter, Graham Greene, Truman Capote and F. Scott Fitzgerald (as well as Ernest Hemingway, of course) all drank there. The royal highball and the seapea cocktail were invented there.
** Elaine Sciolino, (April 5, 2013)"A Bartender’s Sojourn, Garnished With Adventure". New York Times.
* Like many upscale establishments of the period, the Ritz maintained a separate bar for women who were unaccompanied by men.
** James L. W. West III, p. 414 of Annotations to Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Simon & Schuster, 2020; novel first published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1934
* Since it became fashionable to boast a Paris divorce, the Ritz ladies' room has been headquarters for the Alimony Sisterhood, who meet there and compare notes about past and future husbands, lawyers' fees, their dearest friends and the increasing popularity of pearl necklaces. Some of the veteran alimony leaguers seem perpetually in a state of expectancy—of divorces or new husbands. There are ladies making the Ritz bar a nightly ceremony who are at their fourth husband and who won't admit to thirty years of age.
** Basil Woon, The Paris that's not in the Guide Books. New York: Brentano's Publishers. 1926. pp. 9–10.

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Hôtel Ritz Paris on Wikipedia
* * (April 12, 2022)"Meet Colin Field Bartender at the Bar Hemingway, Hotel Ritz Paris". Lartisien, YouTube.
* (December 15, 2024)"Best Historical Luxury Hotels Around the World 2024 (Top 10)". Rest & Roam, YouTube. (Hotel Ritz Paris at 5:27 of 9:16)