A la Mère de Famille, Paris’s oldest sweet shop, is offering some refreshing frozen desserts for the summer season. Head pastry chef Julien Merceron has taken some classic French desserts and substituted their fillings with the company’s famous artisanal ice cream and sorbets (among the best in Paris!) Chef Merceron’s “tartes glacées” come in four … Continue reading Summer desserts: Les tartes glacées
Paris’s oldest sweets shop, A la Mère de Famille, has come up with a cool new treat, just in time for summer. The confectioner and chocolatier’s rochers glacés (frozen rochers) feature a mouthful of delicious ice cream or sorbet covered in a thick layer of milk or dark chocolate sprinkled with bits of almond, hazelnut or pistachio. … Continue reading Rochers Glacés, new from A la Mère de Famille
Häagen-Dazs is an American ice cream company with a dozen shops in Paris. The company was founded by Polish immigrants Reuben and Rose Mattus in New York in 1961. Today they have franchises in 54 countries around the world. The company sells ice cream, sorbet and frozen yogourt as well as coffee, tea and hot … Continue reading Häagen-Dazs
Chocolatier Alain Furet has been at the helm of this venerable sweets shop, founded by the Tanrade family in 1728, for the last two decades. He took over the business when the last generation of Tanrade family members retired in 1987. After working for Gaston Lenôtre and Maison Boissier, another long-established Parisian sweets shops, today … Continue reading Le Furet Tanrade
This is the place to stop for ice cream when you’re on the Butte Montmartre: No less than 41 flavors of ice cream and sorbets are on offer in this tiny shop, which recently took over from its predecessor, La Butte aux Glaces. In addition to classic flavours such as chocolate and vanilla, they have … Continue reading Tutti Sensi
Founded in June 2005, Pozzetto has rapidly gained a reputation as one of the finest ice cream shops in Paris – some even say it’s the best of them all. And for good reason: the gelato is made with all-natural ingredients and the flavours are sublime. Classic flavours such as dark chocolate, milk chocolate, and … Continue reading Pozzetto
A simple, unassuming neighbourhood ice cream shop popular with locals in this part of the chic 16th arrondissement. A nice variety of chocolate flavors, including dark chocolate, chocolate with nougat, chocolate with candied orange peel, chocolate with candied chestnuts, and chocolate and cinnamon. They even have chocolate sorbet. Pascal le Glacier 17, rue Bois-le-Vent, 75016 … Continue reading Pascal le Glacier
