Favorite Patisserie in Paris
 

What is your favorite patisserie in Paris and where is it located?

I rather like Laduree on the Champs Elysees - But then........I think they're all fabulous!

Gerard Mulot in the 6th on 76 rue de Seine.
www.gerard-mulot.com

I agree with Maribel. The best tart citron!!!

I vote for the tarte citron at Bonbonnerie de Buci, rue Buci, in the 6th. If I had to pick a favorite patisserie, that would be it.

Laduree, rue Bonaparte

Bonbonnerie de Buci

Our apartment was right around the corner from here, and we stopped in every day for our treat du jour. Yum!

so many FABULOUS Patisserie's, yet my very favorite so far is GERARD MULOT.
I wish I could go there today!!!

Another vote for Gerard Mulot. We go by there on the day we are leaving and pick up a goodie for the plane. We may be crammed in with the hoi polloi but we are eating well!

This is making me salivate!

I agree about Gerard Mulot. In addition to the pastries they have great quiche to take out.

Also love Le Notre - the napoleons were great). There's one on rue Cler plus other locations.

I like different patiseries for different things but my overall favorite is Secco which is also a fantastic boulangerie (Stéphane Secco (7th) 20 rue Jean Nicot)The pastries are less visually stunning than some, but the quality and taste (and price!)are much better, in my opinion, than the big names.

Impossible to choose just one favorite, but on my last trip I loved the one on the NW corner of rue St Martin and rue Rambuteau.

Laudree and Pierre Herme. Both have multiple locations.

Andre Cleret in the 1st; 4, rue des Lavandieres-Sainte-Opportune. We happened upon this place many trips ago and found that after we had been there many times that Patricia Wells recommends it in her book, "Food Lovers Guide to Paris". Not only do they have delicious pastries, cookies, and breads, but they also have outstanding sandwiches.

This is must have info for my trip.

What is my favorite patisserie in Paris? the closest one, of course.

I haven't found a patisserie in Paris that I didn't like. I was just in Paris the first week of June and I finally bought macaroons from Laduree on rue Bonaparte. I have always chosen eclairs over the macaroons, but this trip I fell totally in love with the chocolate ones. I tried the big ones and the small ones-the same and sooooo delicious. I bought macaroons EVERY day. God, I wish I had about 4 of them this very second.

Scatcat, have you had their sea salt ones? I too didn't try macarons for years because in those pastel colors they just didn't look much like food, but after reading all the rave reviews online, I finally had some last trip and became hooked.

Luckily, a cute new place called Macaron Cafe opened up in my own town just 1 block from my office, so now I can stop by there whenever I'm suffering from Paris-withdrawal.

I just had macaroons last night from the Maison Paul in my very own town right here in Florida. It was a lovely taste of Paris. However, the girl looked at me funny when I walked in and said, "Bon soir!"

shelly_m,
What I liked most about MacarOn Cafe was that all the employees spoke French. Yet I chickened out-- for some reason, it feels far less intimidating to attempt a foreign language while travelling than at home.

I didn't try the sea salt ones. I am so hooked on chocolate. I can't wait to get back to Paris to get more. There are no patisseries near the small town where I live. My son is going to check at a French bakery in Dallas, but I don't think they will have macaroons. If by chance they do, I can't believe they could ever be as good as Ladurees.

There is a recipe for French macarons in the March/April issue of <i>Tea Time Magazine</i>, but I haven't had the nerve to try it. The pictures look like the real thing.

I loved the complete selection (except for licorice) from Laduree on the Champs Elyssee; very hard to choose a favorite. I also like them from Paul Patisserie in London, but, alas, there aren't any in my hometown either.

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Here's a copy of the pastry/bread section of my last Paris trip report:

Here's a report on our pastry/bread/sandwich tastings during our 11 days in Paris.

For croissant, pain au chocolate, millefuelle , chocolate &eacute;clairs, sandwiches and miscellaneous pastries we tried:
Miss Manon, Au Levain du Marais, Pierre Herme, Gerard Mulot, Pain du sucre, Julien, Kayser, BE, Secco, Dallyou, and one whose name I forgot, around the corner from Spring, where I bought a great looking millefuelle that was disgusting and thrown away after one bite. Soggy pastry and gloppy cream.

It was really hard to find that perfect millefuelle. Gerard Mulot had the best cream, very eggy, creamy and just the right sweetness with no frosting, but the pastry wasn't very crisp. Secco also had great cream but the pastry, while crisp, had a burnt butter flavor. Au Levain's pastry was excellent but the cream was not sweet enough! Julien had the best balance of sweet frosting and not too sweet eggy cream but the pastry wasn't crisp enough. Miss Mannon's millefuelle was terrible, a gloppy gelatinous filling like the horrible on in the 9th. I think if we had gotten one right after being assembled, Gerard Mulot would have been the best of the places we tried.

Kayser had the best croissants (plain and chocolate)very flaky, buttery and crisp. I was disappointed by the sandwiches there, however. I remembered from my last trip many really special choices, but this time, the two days we traveled to there to buy sandwiches, they only had a few choices of very ordinary ingredients.

The sandwiches and the ham and cheese croissants from Secco were killer. As were the chocolate eclairs. In fact, I would say that Secco was the best overall for selection, price and quality of the places we tried.

Au Levain du Marias had excellent pain au chocolate and great sandwiches too. They also had a killer almond/chocolate croissant.

Herme had a glazed croissant that was to die for, reminiscent of a Dunkin' Donut to the enth degree.

We hit BE one day after the lunch rush (2:00PM) and were disappointed by the almost empty display cases. We bought a chicken and pesto open face sandwich which they heated for us and took it to Parc Monceau and enjoyed it but wish we could have had more choices. We did have a delicious chocolate finacier from BE for dessert. Unfortunately, they were out of the passion fruit tart that Julot raves about.

I'm sad to say we didn't try any macarons (other than the ones on the dessert cart at Guy Savoy's) but we ate enough other pastry to more than make up for it, including a fabulous vanilla eclair called a Lili at Pain du sucre.

Here are some pics:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26819563@N02/sets/721

Plafield, I'm suffering from a serious saliva flow right now. Dribble, dribble...

Thanks for sharing.

oops, here's the link:
http://tinyurl.com/4ty4br

you have to love a lady who creates a &quot;pastry/bread section&quot; in her trip report, LOL..