This cosy pâtisserie, chocolaterie and salon de thé offers a selection of pastries, cakes and viennoiseries, as well as artisanal chocolates, gourmet teas, fruit jellies, marzipan confections and other goodies. The focus is on regional specialities from the Lorraine region in eastern France. Le Valentin’s chocolates are made with Valrhona chocolate. Among the house specialities [...]
Celebrity French chef Cyril Lignac has just opened a pâtisserie in the heart of Paris’s 11th arrondissement, just across from his restaurant Le Chardenoux. Named La Pâtisserie by Cyril Lignac, the shop is a collaboration between Chef Lignac and former Fauchon pastry chef Benoît Couvrand. Together they offer modern adaptations of traditional french pastries and [...]
Celebrity French chef Cyril Lignac opened his pâtisserie in Paris in November 2011. Located in the heart of Paris’s 11th arrondissement, across from the his restaurant, Le Chardenoux, the shop is a joint venture with pastry chef Benoît Couvrand. The shop offers modern adaptations of traditional french pastries and cakes, as well as breads, viennoiseries [...]
Located on the ground floor of the Printemps department store, Café Pouchkine is known for its fabulous assortment of stunning Russian pastries, buttery viennoiseries and thick hot chocolate. Russian desserts such as Médovick Tort (honey cake), gâteau de Prague (rich chocolate cake with apple marmalade), Tvorog almond and poppy seed roll, and Pirojkis (small sweet [...]
Bordeaux-based Baillardran specialises in canelés, tiny cakes with a thin caramelised exterior and a soft centre. Baked in the shape of a striated cylinder approximately 5 centimetres (two inches) high, canelés are made with egg, milk, flour and sugar and flavoured with either vanilla or rum. Typically sold in lots of six or ten, these [...]
The recently opened Popelini specialises in choux à la crème (cream puffs) in a rainbow of colours and flavours. Vanilla, raspberry, chocolate, coffee, praline, salted butter caramel, lemon and pistachio are just a few of the many variations you’ll find here, showcased in a bright, modern décor. The store is named after the Italian pastry [...]
Founded in 1887, La Pâtisserie de l’Eglise — Maison Demoncy-Vergne is family-run business that combines pâtisserie, chocolaterie, glacier and traiteur. The Demoncy family have been at the help since the 1960s, first Anne-Marie and Pierre, and since 1983, their children Clara and Laurent. When they took over the business in the 1980s, the latter teamed [...]
This very chic boulangerie and pâtisserie makes more than two dozen different types of bread, among which fresh baguette, fougasse, foccacia, raisin bread, rye bread. On the pastry side, you’ll find a delectable millefeuilles, lemon tarts, mont blancs, religieuses and savarins. House specialities include the Gateau au chocolat grands crus, which features a 70 per [...]
Pastry chef and chocolatier Teddy Monceau makes macarons in wonderful flavours like salted butter-caramel, nougat, pistachio, raspberry and, of course, chocolate. Monsieur Monceau, who took over this neighburhood pâtisserie in 2006, has already developed a reputation among locals for both excellence and creativity. In addition to classic pastries and confections, he makes chocolate frogs, dinosaurs [...]
Chez Bogato is a delightful sweets shop and pâtisserie that makes fun cakes, pastries and cookies clearly designed with kids in mind. But their goodies are also for those looking for unusual cakes for special events and parties. The cakes (moelleux au chocolat, quatre-quart, framboisier, dacquoise and others) come in all kinds of shapes: castles, [...]
