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A Tribeca Hotel With a French Frame of Mind

One hundred and ten years after François André Barrière founded his namesake hotel management group, the company — known for its luxury lodgings and casinos throughout France — is opening its first hotel in the United States, on a cobblestone block in TriBeCa with 325 feet of street-level frontage. To fuse the hotel group’s French style with its new location across the Atlantic, the team tapped Swedish interior designer Martin Brudnizki. Fouquet’s New York’s lobby takes cues from the Art Deco movement, a natural aesthetic bridge between New York and Paris, evident in the jewel-like beveled glass lining the front desk, behind which a wall-sized chrome panel by the Israeli American artist Nir Hod reflects passers-by on Desbrosses Street outside. While all the guest rooms have a color scheme that feels drawn from a box of macarons, with pleated silk curtains and accents of pistachio and lilac, some also feature custom toile de Jouy wallpaper comprising New York City landmarks and pigeons carrying croissants. A subterranean spa offers an extensive menu of treatments as well as a Hydropool hot tub, sauna and steam room. An outpost of the Parisian brasserie Fouquet’s, which will open in the coming weeks, anchors the hotel’s food options with a menu created by Pierre Gagnaire in collaboration with executive chef Philippe Orrico, serving such classics as lobster thermidor and crêpes suzette. The original Fouquet’s on the Champs-Élysées is also known for hosting a gala dinner following the annual César awards. Echoing this tradition, the New York hotel has an acoustically insulated screening room that seats 100 — a fitting addition to a neighborhood that has a storied film tradition of its own. From $1,100, hotelsbarriere.com.

In the world of craft chocolate, there are hierarchies of taste. At the top are bars made mostly of cacao, more bitter than sweet, while somewhere below is the lushness of butterfat-enriched milk chocolate. But for Fossa, an independent chocolate maker based in Singapore, these constructs don’t apply. “We will not restrict ourselves in the type of base chocolate, whether it’s dark, milk, or blond,” says…