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 [...]
The legendary tea room Angelina is set to open another tea room in Paris at the Musée du Luxembourg (6th arr.). Housed in a brand new building designed by architects Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines, the combined tea room, café and restaurant will offer museum visitors light lunches, desserts and its famous hot chocolate [...]
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 [...]
French online tea retailer Les Thés de Constance and organic cake and pastry specialists Marlette will be in Paris as a tea and cake “pop-up store” from May 21 to June 26. Les Thés de Constance specialises in exotic single-origin teas from around the world. Marlette, an Ile de Ré-based “bio gourmand” company, makes high-end [...]
Owned by American expat Peggy Hancock since 1980, this little gem of a tea room is located in Galerie Vivienne, one of Paris’s loveliest passages couverts (covered passageways). In addition to a wide assortment of teas, they serve wonderful cakes, scones, brownies and a delicious fruit crumble. Brunch and light lunch fare is also available. [...]
One of the most beautiful tea rooms in Paris, the elegant Café Jacquemart-André is situated in the former dining room of the mansion built by banker Edouard André between 1869 and 1875. The palatial boulevard Haussmann residence was home to Monsieur André and his wife, artist Nélie Jacquemart, with whom he assembled the impressive art [...]
One of Japan’s most prestigious and oldest makers of traditional Japanese confections, Toraya (founded in the 16th century) opened its doors in Paris in 1980 just steps away from the busy place de la Concorde. The quiet shop and tea room feature traditional Japanese pastries such as yokan, manjû, oshiruko and namagashi along with a [...]
A listing of some of the most well-known tea rooms in Paris, as well as some lesser-known ones.
Tucked away inside the quiet passage Dauphine in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés L’Heure Gourmande serves up its traditional hot chocolate the old-fashioned way, in a chocolatière. Here’s what the Boston Globe says about the hot chocolate served here: “Although it retains a potent chocolate flavor, L’Heure Gourmande’s version has a light and creamy texture that [...]
Stepping into La Charlotte de l’Isle is like entering a warm and cosy chocolate dream filled with unexpected delights. Founded in 1972, this curiosity shop of sorts is still run by the same owner, a chocolate artist who creates chocolate figurines, cakes and other goodies in her magical kitchen. Part tearoom, part chocolate shop, the [...]
