http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T05:44:58Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Paris http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/3/24/34420/2450 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/ramsay_trianon.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>Gordon Ramsay's opening a restaurant this Wednesday (26 March) at <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Trianon+Palace+&amp;+Spa,+A+Westin+Hotel/ian/129705"><b>Trianon Palace</b></a>, a grand old mansion hotel in Versailles just outside Paris.<p> <p>Can you think of a more incongruous mix? The foul-mouthed Scottish chef in the tea-and-china tinkling mansion where the Treaty of Versailles was drawn up in 1919. At the entrance to the three-acre manicured park which contains the deceased French royal family's 17th-century Chateau de Versailles - think ladies-in-waiting, extravagant masked balls and feathery blancmange-shaped dresses. <p> The hotel's staffed by an army of stiff concierges and doormen - judging from the look of some of them, they've kept quite a few of the original staff. It's frequented by the snootier members of the French femmefatale 2008-03-24T09:15:01-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/