With its origins dating back to 1682, Dalloyau has been making exquisite cakes and pastries for more than 300 years. The renowned Parisian pastry shop, chocolatier and caterer today has several stores in Paris as well as boutiques in Japan, Korea, Dubai and Doha. For this year’s holiday collection the theme is gold and light, … Continue reading Dalloyau Bûche de Noël Eclat d’Or and Féérie de Lumière
Renowned Breton chocolatier and caramel maker Henri Le Roux has just opened his first shop in Paris. Located on rue de Bourbon le Château, in the heart of the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district, the new store offers Monsieur Le Roux’s famous salted butter caramels, fabulous ganaches and pralines, single-origin chocolate bars, fruit jellies, wonderful marrons glacés (glaced … Continue reading Chocolatier and caramel maker Henri Le Roux opens shop in Paris
Opened a year ago, Un Dimanche à Paris is a marvellous chocolate “concept store” located in the heart of the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district. Created by Pierre Cluizel (son of renowned chocolatier Michel Cluizel), this thriving one-stop shop features a chocolate shop and pâtisserie, restaurant, tea room (salon de chocolat), lounge and cooking school in the historic … Continue reading Un Dimanche à Paris Noël 2011 Christmas collection
Internationally renowned master chocolatier Pierre Marcolini opened his first chocolate shop in Brussels in 1995. Today he has two shops in Paris as well as stores in New York, Tokyo, Kuwait, and London in addition to his home country of Belgium. He is one of the rare chocolatiers to personally select his cocoa beans, working … Continue reading Pierre Marcolini Noël 2011 Christmas collection
Since its opening on the Left Bank in 1975, Gérard Mulot‘s boulangerie, pâtisserie and chocolate shop has established itself as a gourmand institution. Today, the company has grown to include three shops in Paris and several stores in Japan. The flagship boutique on rue de Seine is known for its gorgeous window displays of jewel-like … Continue reading Gérard Mulot Bûches de Noël 2011
Hernán Cortés first introduced chocolate to Europeans in 1528 when he returned to Spain from Mexico with samples of cacao beans, cultivated by the Aztecs for thousands of years and used in a ceremonial drink known as xocolatl. Not accustomed to the bitter flavour of cacao, the Spanish created their own version of the Aztecs’ traditional … Continue reading Chocolat Chaud, or 40 ways to make hot chocolate
