L'Axel

Top choice in Fontainebleau


Chef Kunihisa Goto has gained a Michelin star for his inspired flavour combinations: turbot with candied artichoke and yuzu-butter sauce, veal sweetbreads with cinnamon-roasted carrot purée, and mango mousse in a white-chocolate coconut sphere with banana and passion-fruit sorbet. Book several weeks ahead.


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1. Château de Fontainebleau

0.2 MILES

The resplendent, 1900-room Château de Fontainebleau’s list of former tenants and guests reads like a who’s who of French royalty and aristocracy. Every…

3. Forêt de Fontainebleau

0.55 MILES

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4. Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte

11.28 MILES

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5. Marché International de Rungis

29.46 MILES

Covering an area bigger than Monaco (234 hectares), Paris' wholesale markets are sectioned into vast halls for meat, cheese, fish, fruit and vegetables,…