In September 2021, Joris Bruneel opened Babel, a hotel-restaurant with 31 rooms and 70 seats in the heart of Belleville, designed as a tribute to the cultural, economic and creative wealth of this Paris neighborhood where he has been living for eight years.
Candied lamb gyozas, hot chocolate with a hint of zaatar, and around thirty rooms designed as so many invitations to travel… Launched a few months ago by Joris Bruneel, president of the MyHotels hotel group, and Franco-Afghan chef Clarie Fera-Akram, the Babel hotel thinks of both its cuisine and its decor (the work of French interior designer Daphné Desjeux) as a celebration of Belleville’s multiculturalism. Committed to making this new project of his an integral part of this northeastern Paris neighborhood life, Bruneel has been deploying at Babel a variety of initiatives in the hope to serve its inhabitants as well as its local economy: a menu filled with products coming from close-by shops, an employment policy that insists on recruiting workers that are either local and/or slowly reintegrating society, as well as a room made permanently available for emergency housing needs.
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