Whether you are in the French capital enjoying a well-deserved holiday or on a business trip, one of the best ways to experience the French lifestyle is having breakfast or lunch like the French. And for the French, that means bread, macarons, and of course, pastries.
The Magic Of A Paris Bakery
Paris has the dopest pastries in the world (dating back to about 1800s.) There's the chocolatey eclair, the palmier, the Paris-Brest. The list goes on. The city’s pastry scene ranges from modern trompe l’oeil treasures to outrageous cookies, making it more dynamic (and delicious) than ever.
Here's every Paris bakery you need to see when you go to France.
Poilâne
Poilâne opened in 1923 offering traditional country breads, and those have been their signature offering ever since. The company also now provides miche bread, pain de Campagne, and country bread, as well as delicious butter cookies.
Des Gâteaux et du Pain
The Des Gâteaux et du Pain bakery is a favorite amongst neighborhood residents. This bakery offers varieties of bread, breakfast pastries—aux Pommes, and pâtisseries.
Karamel
Karamel Paris is the first pastry shop and tea salon from pastry chef Nicolas Haelewyn, and it offers different pastries like Kararoll with a topping of oats and hazelnuts.
Senoble Famille Gourmande
Senoble Famille Gourmande bakery is a family-run shop with an ice cream parlor, pastry shop, and tea salon. Once you're there, you'll find ice cream, chocolates, and plenty of sweets.
La Pâtisserie Cyril Lignac
La Pâtisserie Cyril Lignac offers breads, chocolate, and pastries, and chef Cyril Lignac's signature creations. There are a few locations around the city.
Yann Couvreur
Yann Couvreur is the first of two pastry shops from Yann Couvreur, and they offer ready-made tartes to roulés, in pistachio-chocolate, milk chocolate, hazelnut, praline, rose and coconut flavors.
Aux Merveilleux de Fred
Aux Merveilleux de Fred offers airy, layered meringue mounds coated in everything from chocolate flakes to caramelized hazelnuts.
Gilles Marchal
Gilles Marchal Paris bakery is a sophisticated, trendy bakery offering traditional treats such as galette des Rois (King's Cake) or posh flavored tarts in orange, chic-choc, lemon meringue, bourdaloue, or exotic fruit.
Popelini
At any Popelini Paris bakery, you will find dessert chou (which literally translates to cabbage, no apparent relation to the vegetable in taste or anything else) in caramel, black forest, red fruit, chestnut, passion fruit, raspberry vanilla, and more.
Acide Macaron
Acide Macaron is a tea salon and pastry shop is known for experimenting with flavors and ingredients. Jonathan Blot (the owner) is known for experimenting with flavors (such as olive macarons) from a diverse array of cultures and taking inventive twists on classic desserts (fig wedding cake pastry.)
Farinez’ Vous
The Paris bakery Farinez’ Vous only uses ingredients from local producers, organic agriculture and fair trade, offering customers the opportunity to enjoy a warm croissant while also being environmentally responsible. As a bonus, it's located very close to the Seine, perfect for an afternoon stroll.
Le Grenier A Pain
You might want to stop by Le Grenier A Pain to enjoy delicious chocolate and coffee-flavored eclairs. But what you can't leave without is a loaf of their bread. They pride themselves on their traditional loaves, with ten unique flavors.
38 Rue des Abbesses, 75018 Paris, France