Salade très verte à la sucrine comme à l’Hôtel Costes

The Costes family’s reign on the Paris café scene began in the mid 1980s. Since then the glamorous, celebrity-fuelled lure of their restaurants and hotels has not waned. They invented ‘le before’, somewhere cool to eat lightly before continuing the evening elsewhere. Hotel Costes became an institution, unbearably noisy and m’as-tu-vu (showy, flashy) after midnight and during the Fashion Weeks that kept it famous, yet slick and discreet as an all-day hideaway for those needing quiet a