New for autumn:

4* Amiral Hotel at 98 avenue d'Italie 75013.

Italian Vincent Cozzoli is opening his new resto Villa Dell'Arte - in the spot formerly occupied by the Pavilion Puebla next to Parc des Buttes-Chaumont - the restaurant is in a Second-Empire pavilion with views of the park behind. Corner of Ave Simon Bolivar and Rue Botzaris 19e Tel: 01 42 08 92 62

Close by is La Geode, the new hemispheric cinema equipped with the latest digital technology.