At the NoMad hotel, French designer Jacques Garcia has fashioned a restaurant and bar as layered, plush, and richly detailed as a European grand hotel. Using sumptuous materials and meticulous craftsmanship, Garcia conjured a sense of history and tradition. Step up to the 24-foot-long mahogany bar, which is guarded by carved elephants, and you get the feeling this place is here to stay.

Set apart from the main dining area, the cozy fireplace room offers an intimate escape. The centerpiece is an ornate antique stone mantel imported from a French château. Finished in deep reds, floral patterns, and with plenty of lush upholstery, the room exudes warmth—even when the fire isn’t roaring.

Sited at the foot of the Trollveggen, or Troll Wall, the highest vertical rock face in Europe, the visitor center and cafeteria has a dramatically angular roof line that was inspired by the craggy mountains that surround it. Designed by Oslo architect Reiulf Ramstad, it’s an eye-opening addition to the pristine parkland. Ramstad has completed a number of breathtaking modernist interventions at Norwegian tourist stops, which makes him no new comer for working at such a breathtaking locations

The dining area design is all about the owned for view. A simple cafeteria offers casual meals, and visitors are free to place a chair wherever they please. In good weather, the best seats are on the terrace or the integrated bleachers. But even when precipitation or cool temperatures force people inside, the glass walls and steeply angled roof ensures that the architecture doesn’t impede sight lines to the sky.

There’s another reason to visit the Marché aux Puces de Saint-Ouen, the largest and most famous flea market in Paris, which has nothing to do with negotiating a deal on antique furniture—Ma Cocotte, the amazing new restaurant designed by famous designer Philippe Starck himself. Featuring a casual, eclectic interior design furnished largely with objects Starck sourced from the Paul Bert and Serpette markets, it’s an ode to a world of intriguing and unusual finds.

The restaurant has been designed for two levels. The ground floor dining area design is enclosed by garage doors that can open up to an outdoor terrace on sunny days. Upstairs there are two additional spaces that feel as warm and inviting as living rooms, as well as an elevated terrace. However, few diners will want to rest for long. Stocked with sculptural objects and distinctive vintage pieces, the interiors prime patrons for the discoveries that await them just outside.

The first restaurant outside Spain for renowned Catalonian chef Paco Pérez, 5-cinco is located in the chic new Das Stue hotel. The hotel inhabits a former Royal Danish embassy built in 1939, and the interior public spaces, designed by Patricia Urquiola, feature stately, sober architectural design updated with dramatic contemporary details —including a crocodile head sculpture in the lounge area.

5-cinco’s formal dining rooms interior design doesn’t take itself too seriously. A haphazard arrangement of copper vessels swarms a cluster of Tom Dixon copper pendant lamps, creating a striking focal point that reflects the energy of chef Pérez’s home country.