Palais Jamaï closed in 2014, and Fès waited twelve years for the state railway company that owns it to finish rebuilding a Grand Vizier's mansion into something guests could sleep in again. The restoration reopens this spring under the Preferred Hotels Legend Collection, with Alain Ducasse running the kitchens: 94 rooms carved from a 19th-century Fes el-Bali compound, zellij tilework and carved cedar intact from the original build. Still, the tilework is the tilework. Come back when the reviews are in.
6.3SCORETORCHROOM'S AHEADHEAT 52▮
ROOM'S AHEAD — the room's ahead of what's landed.
BENCHMARK IN THE 50 · the nearest thing on the 50 is Fortnum & Mason, and it isn't close — continuity is the story in both, but Ducasse's name is doing the marketing here, not an unbroken institution
THE MUSA FAMILY · HEIRWAVE
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