The best pastry shops Paris

The first Pierre Hermé boutique was opened in Tokyo in 1998. The second one on rue Bonaparte was opened in 2001. Since then, it has been an undeniable success. The macaroons of this star pastry chef make even the most fashion-conscious ladies swoon: on the one hand, the "Infiniment" (vanilla, lemon, chocolate, pistachio...), on the other hand the "Signature" (Mogador, Chloé...). As for the pastries, the creations are divided into two categories: the unavoidable ones, such as the Ispahan (rose, raspberry, lychee) and the 2000 leaves, and the cakes according to the seasons. You can also enjoy a coffee at Café Pierre Hermé, on the other side of rue Bonaparte, at 61.

This is where the L'éclair de Génie adventure began. By the end of 2023, the brand launched by Christophe Adam had three outlets: this one, the one at Galeries Lafayette and L'Eclair de Génie Café in Montmartre. It's hard to describe the whole range, which is recognizable by its flashy colors, but we guarantee it's worth the detour! A (very small) preview? At Christmas 2023, for example, you could snap up a boxed set of dark chocolate-peanut and Madagascar vanilla-caramel éclairs... We'll let you discover the rest in store.

As well as offering creative pastries to eat in or take away, this establishment also offers pastry classes. Customers can order their products via the café's website or through delivery services such as UberEats and Deliveroo. For those looking for an original gift, Café Michalak also offers gift vouchers for 3-hour classes with a Michalak Masterclass chef.

This house of excellence, whose origins date back to 1862, is an integral part of the living heritage of French gastronomy. It has revolutionized pastry making with its "inimythables":the opera, the nun of dreams, macaroons, chocolate lace, and saint-honoré lollipops. You will also find in the shop hot and cold starters as well as dishes (meat, fish, vegetables). Dalloyau has received the distinction "Entreprise du Patrimoine vivant" (Living Heritage Company).

Angelina is probably one of the most famous Parisian tea rooms. The "old lady" celebrated its 110th anniversary in 2013. We come here first of all for its "Africain"; a thick, hot and creamy chocolate accompanied by a small pot of whipped cream, as well as for its Mont Blanc, a meringue filled with whipped cream covered with vermicelli chestnut cream. As a stylist, the pastry chef unveils his collections twice a year. Recently, he scrolled on his podium Trocadéro, the combination of milk chocolate with hazelnut crunch. The setting has retained its charm with its large paintings and gilded mirrors. Angélina also has her own shop where you can buy a wide range of sweets to enjoy at home or while strolling around Paris.

Maison Larnicol is first of all a Breton institution created in South Finistere by Georges Larnicol. His first bakery was opened in the 80s. He invented the Torchette^®. This cake was so successful that it spread quickly across Brittany, then in the West before arriving in Paris. This Meilleur Ouvrier de France keeps inventing while maintaining tradition: kouign-Hamann, galettes with buckwheat, wheat and algae galettes or with buckwheat and chocolate, palets, cocouettes... Among the sweets, we love lollipops marshmallow or chocolate and fruit, meringues, the moumouttes, macaroons with fresh fruits without animal fat, not to mention chocolates which can be customized on request and become genuine creations. He also makes artistic chocolate pieces for all celebrations: weddings, baptisms, birthdays. The time range allows, even in the late evening, to go and get a little treat for oneself or to offer.

Romain Gaia, a Frenchman with a passion for Japan, decided to continue his apprenticeship in the Land of the Rising Sun. Back in Paris, he launched Tomo to introduce Dorayaki, the iconic Japanese pastry. Takanori Murata, from a family of wagashi (traditional Japanese pastry) makers based in the Nagoya region, joined him in this adventure. Both of them wanted to offer a real artisanal product respecting the tradition of both Japanese wagashi and French pastry, and favoring as much as possible organic ingredients of French origin. Mission accomplished! Second address : 16 rue Grégoire de Tours (6e).

It is a tea room without equivalent, which deserves that one lingers there. The reactions are unanimous, and very positive, when you walk through the door for the first time. Marble, Art Deco chandeliers, spacious and wavy benches: the place has an undeniable charm. Kanoun is a nice oriental tea room (which also offers a restaurant). If we come there, it is for its pastries with an authentic taste, fine, to taste with delicious teas. We can only recommend a visit to Kanoun, 100%!

A gourmet bridge between France and Algeria... Laouz offers a contemporary vision of Algerian pastry, mixing yesterday's and today's flavors. The result: high-end sweets with surprising flavors - poppy, grapefruit, praline, pistachio, yuzu... The first Parisian store was opened in 2016, on rue St-Honoré. The success of the brand has not been denied, and by the end of 2022 it had five boutiques, including this one. In addition to pastry creations, it also offers baking specialties(kesra, khoubz dar, matloo...), as well as a catering service (lunch formulas to take away or enjoy on site) and event catering. In short, a sure value!

Carl Marletti made his classes at the Grand Hotel Intercontinental in Paris before launching himself in the adventure in 2007, from his shop does not dissolve. His recipe: high-end pastry at relatively affordable prices. His shop is chic with its gray grinding and the sober interior, like the one that works inside. A word on the incomparable flavors: The religious is at the rose, the saint-honored to the violet, the lemon tartette of Paris, the red fruit leaf, etc. We must immerse ourselves in his creations as desirable as any other… Carl Marletti is a real goldsmith.

Is it because of the elegant grey color of the front or because of the name - Antoine - written in large letters above the window, in any case, this bakery-pastry shop immediately caught our eye and titillated our curiosity. The welcome is smiling, and the breads are of high quality, as are the pastries (seasonal fruit pies, chocolate cakes, lightnings...). For lunch, the house offers different options for a quick lunch at the office. A selection of gourmet products are also on sale: La Gosse lemonades, Bovetti spreads, Patrick Fonte nectars…

Heaven that they are beautiful and light these cakes angel who landed in our capital without making noise! It seems that the Japanese are crazy… They call them the cakes cloth… These small treats are taken away or they have the particularity of taking care of our line. It's just a mixture of egg whites and rice flour, flavored with caramel, raspberry, exotic fruits, matcha tea, lemon, yuzu, etc. They are sold at the unit or by eight, well presented in origami boxes and a 5 roll-cakes box allows to taste different fragrances. Behind all this, Youlin Ly, the boss of the Sola restaurant, and Aya Tamura, a custard of Alain Ducasse and Thierry Marx, is the fairy fairy. 

Created in 1957 and now owned by the Accor group, Lenôtre currently has a dozen boutiques in Paris and the Paris region (Vincennes, Neuilly and Parly 2). At the same time, the company has developed internationally through a network of franchises. It must be said that Lenôtre is a safe bet, a name synonymous with quality and French gastronomic know-how. Pastries, chocolates and other refined dishes... You will find here a dessert or a gourmet gift, such as sweets, if you are invited, or everything to concoct an intimate dinner. If you want to organise a weekend brunch, no problem either: Lenôtre has designed a special offer for this purpose.

"Biscuitier-Sucrecuitier". This is what the front of this store, which looks like a biscuit factory of yesteryear, shows. Here, the lollipops are packed one by one, the cakes are presented in pretty metal boxes, decorated and patinated in the traditional way. All delicacies are handcrafted in the South of France, in the Hérault, and call upon childhood memories. The aromas of the caramels make the mouth water: muscatel grapes, nuts, chocolate, nougat, rose... All available in assortments already ready to offer. All the biscuits and cakes are reissues of delicious traditional recipes: calissons, shuttles, almond crunchy or biscuits filled with fruit pulp, which are the house specialities.

Just opposite his restaurant Le Chardenoux, Cyril Lignac, the media leader, opened his pastry, which was the result of a meeting with the talented pastry chef Benoit Couvrand. In a very contemporary setting, some traditional pastries are revisited and adapted to the tastes of the moment thanks to subtle associations. Chocolate, caramel butter, but also seasonal fruit are the bases of beautiful gourmet flavours: The strawberry pie adopts the pistachios in Sicily, the Éclair flash blends with nuts, the Lemon Pie or the Paris-Brest have a very innovative look. Pâtisserie offers a choice of breads, pastries, salads and sandwiches all year round. A second address was created in September 2013 in the 16 th arrondissement. Whether it be here or in the 11 ^th, prices go a bit: € 5 for a pastry, € 2,30 for a chocolate loaf and € 1,20 for the Tradition wand.

Fabrice Le Bourdat attracts customers a bit like a magnet. They come from the Aligre market to buy their hot baguette(s) and/or pastries. It is true that the gentleman has a beautiful past: Nantais trained at Debotté's, he worked at the Palais in Biarritz, at Martinez in Cannes, at Plaza and Bristol in Paris. Just that... All his cakes make us melt with pleasure. Special mention for the madeleines, the Goût de paradis (mango-passion, coconut mousse) and the Tatin tart, made of a caramelized apple placed on a Breton pallet... The simple tarts do not deserve it. This bakery and pastry shop along Trousseau Square is also a tea room.

This beautifully decorated store makes the diabetic happy. Alixe Bornon, the owner of the place, she is diabetic since the age of 13, offers pastries with the glycemic index controlled. So, she worked with a Master pastry chef-chocolatier and a Medecine endocrinologist. For two years, they performed many tests to establish the glycemic index of each recipe based on natural combinations ( ancient grain flours, pure chocolates, unrefined sugars, and so on). Here, spices, alcohols and infusions play the role of flavor enhancer usually held by sugar. The most curious can even see the laboratory in the back of the store. 

We knew the restaurant Les Tartes Kluger, today there is the counter, installed in an ancient horse horse right next to Rose Bakery. This is the new, épurée point of sale of Catherine Kugler. Prepared with seasonal products, all salted or sweet pies are made on site and house. From the counter, you can see the preparation of the pies that you are ordering or you are looking for. 6,50 € per salt share and 5 € for sweet. The 25 € brunch is quite correct.

This address is simply a delight! It offers a restaurant, bakery, pastry, tea and catering. Every desire can be satisfied with Manon! Located on the same premises where Robespierre lived, this gourmet centre is a paradise for savoury and mostly sweet flavours. Before going to work, people like to have breakfast or lunch which, without being very gastronomic suitably falls on the lunch menu at €13,50 at this place which is unbeatable in the district or at teatime. How would you resist the cakes that attract you as you walk into Manon's setting? They are all so beautiful and will tempt everyone; even the less gourmand. The prices are also affordable!

It is a temple of oriental pastry since 1993, already a quarter of a century… Dates, figs, oranges, almonds, pistachios, honey… They're all there. Since its creation on rue Saint-Maur by Samira Fahim and her partner Hassen Rahmani, La Bague de Kenza has expanded the family by opening several boutiques in Paris and the suburbs. What makes its success? The quality of Algerian pastries, and often Algerian, melting and deliciously sweet... About 60 little pleasures to discover: walnuts, almonds, pistachios, dates, roses, honey... The adjoining catering shop will also give you a very warm welcome. And though the prices are a little high, they are fair.