Yves and Claudine Camdeborde’s Le Relais Saint-Germain includes three operations: an elegant hotel with 22 roomy rooms with mirrored walls and exposed wooden beams (the most luxurious is the Marguerite de Navarre, with its own private terrace), and a pair of Paris’s highly buzzed about dining spots. There are two ways to dine at the enormously popular Le Comptoir: Jostle for one of its 20 tightly-packed seats during the daytime (when it’s first-come, first-serve and offerings include delicious bistro dishes like pâtés and terrines and lightly grilled tuna served with a bright anchovy sauce) or book some six months in advance for the evening prix-fixe menu which features plates like roasted Normandy scallops with algae butter. In 2009, the couple opened the adjacent L’Avant Comptoir, their standing room only “hors d’oeuvres bar.”
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