The best pastry shops Rhône-Alpes

At Etienne Culot, everything is homemade by a pastry chef who never ceases to amaze us with his creations, particularly around fruit. In his boutique on Place Championnet, Etienne Culot follows the rhythm of the seasons to bring us mouthfuls of happiness. This passionate craftsman amazes us with new products every time we visit, using only the finest seasonal ingredients. Summer offers a fruity festival of tarts, flans, tropézienne, brioche... All full of flavor. Original recipes, remarkable expertise, committed patisserie, cakes large and small to enjoy on the premises, on the terrace or to take away, chocolates for the holidays... Heart on Etienne Culot.

Since 1991, the Laurent patisserie in La Grand-Croix has been transporting you into a world of sweetness and light with its handcrafted products. The varied range of cakes, chocolates, ice creams and other delights is carefully prepared using fresh local produce, in keeping with tradition and the rules of the art. Specialties such as "la Cacotte" and "le Craquelin" are a must for gourmets. The menu changes regularly, offering new flavors according to the season and the inspiration of our talented pastry chefs.

The most delicious Merveilleux made before your eyes in a pastry shop that you should not just photograph. Light, crispy and melting at the same time, these cakes are a specialty of the North. Frédéric Vaucamps has made the Merveilleux lighter and tastier. Working in total transparency, this craftsman has selected excellent products to make his Merveilleux to be eaten as individual pieces or as cakes for 4 to 24 people. Another wonderful store in the 6th district to succumb to this divinely diabolic temptation.

Maison Lenoir's unique expertise has been passed down through 4 generations. A family affair, with craftsmen who are passionate about their profession as bakers and confectioners. A brand name and several addresses where you can enjoy a good loaf of bread every day, including the house specialty: pain au torchon. If Futé has chosen Maison Lenoir as one of its patisseries, it's because he's fallen in love with the classics - wonderful millefeuille, forêt noire, ambassadeur, tropézienne... - and home-made creations. Everything is made on the premises, even the tart shells, giving an inimitable taste to tailor-made cakes. Delivery and catering service available. A historic brand that's very much of its time.

It's the kingdom of chocolate and pogne! An address of excellence that delights sweet tooths. It was in 1891 that Jean-Pierre Lionneton opened the first Lionneton bakery in Ardèche. The company has continued to exist without ever renouncing its origins and its traditional, artisanal pastry, chocolate and bakery work. The range of chocolates and pastries is an enchantment for the palate as well as for the eyes. The pogne de Romans is among the best in the appellation area and the bread menu is just as good. More than one reason to stop by.

Champagne has its pink Reims cookies, Saint-Péray has its chips: a specialty that dates back to 1871. This patisserie is renowned for its Malavieille chips, sweet rolled cookies in the shape of a chip, delicately scented with orange blossom. This delicacy celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2021! The shavings can be eaten crunchy or softer, depending on your taste, at teatime or as an aperitif, or even as a dessert. The chef also concocts madeleines, suisses and other sweets in his workshop.

In their two stores, Jordan and Mathieu and in Vichy Vincenzo and Alex make old wheat breads with natural leavening, the 2 Brothers signature baguettes and the absolute organic one, farmhouse breads, pointed baguettes, rye pies from Auvergne, large pieces including their famous old-fashioned bread of more than 15 kg sold by weight, with an amber crumb and a malt aroma. Every Saturday: stone bread made from local sourdough flour flavored with honey. Range of sandwiches made with meat, cheese and fish. Range of pastries, pastries and snacks.

Founded in 1964 by Jean-Charles Giraud, and later joined by his son Louis, this gourmet brand welcomes us to its attractive boutique just down the boulevard. Maison Giraud is renowned for its pastries, chocolates and ice creams, as well as its catering service. The Giraud patisserie also combines a downtown tea room with a renowned catering service. In a hurry at lunchtime? Try the menu of the day with salad, dish of the day and pastries, on the terrace if the weather's fine, or on the mezzanine, in the warmth of the interior.

After weeks of work, this pastry shop/tea room has finally reopened for our greatest happiness. You just have to go through the door of this invitation to indulgence to understand that we are really dealing with pastry chefs. There are two of them, Dérick and Alain. Two talented and gourmet men who have embarked on a beautiful adventure, that of satisfying all our senses. The aesthetics of the cakes is remarkable: bright colors and perfect shapes. And the taste is generous... No doubt about it, everything is homemade and made with local products.

At David Bory's, the choice is vast and everything is good: pastries, bread, snacks, confectionery, chocolates, cakes... The creations are unique and colourful like the fig/raspberry/chocolate bread. The assemblies of cakes and individual pieces are delicate and greedy. Fruits, caramel, chocolate, all the taste buds will enjoy! The service is impeccable, always smiling and friendly. The lunch formulas can be enjoyed on the spot (inside or on the terrace) or to take away.

With the announced opening of a second boutique in the future Halles Mézerat, Au Péché Gourmand is now part of a dual entity under the name of Maison Dussap, named after Kevin, its creator. However, we'll continue to indulge our sweet tooth in front of the window displays filled with cakes, giving the store a jewel-like feel. Everything is homemade, with flavors that change with the seasons. On the summer menu are "Eskimos", made with organic milk from Jonzieux cows, "mojitos" with brown sugar cookie and mint-lemon cream, chococcinos or marvelous, crunchy hazelnut, nougat cream and apricot confit. There's no point resisting!

The Durand House has solid foundations. Created in 1890, four generations perpetuated traditions. For 30 years, Michel and Bernard have been on the Orders and have become real specialists in pastry-chocolate. They revived the manufacture of the true "pastry sausage", a well-known cake of the sixties, created in Boën, composed of a sponge filling of chocolate cream wrapped in a chocolate glacine, which gives a stick closed to the ends by a string as a boudin. Other specialties, Chloé's delights, flat rollers with almonds, gold pucks, large cru, and roses of the rolled sands pralines. A selection of gift objects is offered in its decoration space.

The Praluline, the gourmet treasure of the Pralus House, is a success! This brioche with pink praline chips is very popular. Invented in Roanne by Auguste Pralus in 1955, this little delicacy can be bought on rue Blatin. Its success sometimes requires patience, as it is so much in demand. The shop also sells pink praline slivers in jars and delicious chocolates created by the master chocolatier François Pralus, who also makes a chocolate version of his brioche, even if it must be said that the praline version, with its secret recipe, is unequalled!

There's nothing better than creating a joyful, gourmet universe in a small cake! The Little Petits Gâteaux team will be delighted to help you personalize your cakes. In the Ainay district, a tea room which, despite its half-French, half-English name, claims its "French touch". The real tour de force of this team of pastry enthusiasts is to make cakes that are too beautiful, including the dizzyingly shaped "Layers Cakes", and too delicious to eat. Never nauseating, the cakes are made with fresh, natural ingredients. Colorful, fragrant, disguised, from small or giant cupcakes to custom-made wedding cakes, there's a huge, delicious choice.

Catherine and Christian Perret are more than 30 years old, at the entrance to this pedestrian street in the old town. A discreet and refined shop, according to the French tradition of pastry-chocolate. The specialty of the house is the Cure, a sandblasted dough with almonds, praline and meringue cream. Many other cakes on display and a beautiful collection of fine chocolates. We appreciate being able to sit in the tea room for a relaxing moment.

L'Atelier gourmand d'Eric Martins is an institution. Located in Orcines, his macaroons are delicious, as are his meringues, tarts and verrines, not to mention his cupcakes, wedding cakes and cookies, each more surprising than the last. The artisan chef takes a new approach to classic pastries, with boldness and brio. He plays with flavors: Auvergne blue pear macaroons or fig foie gras. His wedding cakes are original and impressive. Ideal for all your events, with the option of ordering your cake made-to-measure.

Chocolate and macaroons in the Auvergne style, this is how we can describe the products of the house created by Claude and Elisabeth Déat. For Easter and the holidays, the Chamalières store, as well as those in the metropolis, are always full. The chocolates are made from Grands Crus Pure Plantation cocoa. Their macaroons with exquisite flavors are soft and tasty. There are also jams and pastries. It is possible to offer gift certificates for pastry classes: chocolate and macaroons will no longer have any secrets for you!

In 1848, Françoise Guilloud married Pierre Labully. Originally from France, she married this Savoyard while Saint-Genix was still under the sovereignty of Piedmont-Sardinia. In her luggage, she took with her the secret recipe for a brioche scented with orange blossom. Her husband added his personal touch by adding pralines to the original recipe, and it was under the name of "Gâteau Labully" that he marketed it, eclipsing the Saint-Genix appellation. This confusion persists to this day, with many variations.

Founded in 1977, Maison Bouillet has evolved with the know-how and creativity of Sébastien, who has reinvented patisserie with new shapes, new colors and new flavors. Creative patisserie with no limits, real jewels that make you fall in love with them every time you visit: St Ho caramel and vanilla, Baba Too Baba and Crème d'ange that change with the seasons, Lyon-Tokyo, Chiffon Cake... The E-boutique and the numerous addresses (9 in all) are practical ways to sample all the delights of Sébastien Bouillet.

Two addresses for this very greedy Halloween. On the one hand, you have the pastry with a contemporary tea lounge, in pink and white tones, at 7 rue Notre-Dame, and on the other the chocolate shop itself, at 2 square of town hall. The speciality of the house? Big-Kisses, pralines chocolates, black or milk, lip-shaped. The shop also offers selected wines for their ability to marry chocolate. A very good address for chocolate drinkers.

After effort, comfort is well known. Those who do not know Annonay will see what we are talking about if they come from the bottom - that is an index! - Mesclon pastry tells us about a time that people under the age of cannot know. With its wooden display, its counting, its candy jars and its profusion of chocolates with delicious pastries, it also reminds us that it is time to taste, unless it is the dessert… Why look for a pretext, all that makes us simply envy - to taste on site or to take away.

A child of Grenoble, the city to which he pays homage with his famous Grenoisine, Thierry Court is a creator of little pleasures: sweets, cookies and artisanal bars. Winner of "Meilleur pâtissier Les Professionnels" 2017, master artisan pâtissier-chocolatier-confiseur, Thierry Court revisits the classics of the genre in his own original - neo-artisanal snacking - and gourmet way. For the grown-ups, it's a chance to recapture their childhood memories, while for the kids, it's a feast of quality products. Pastry classes to get you started.

A real craftsman in Drumettaz-Clarafond, in the heart of the village! Dominique and Edith Sabourdy are the patrons of this very welcoming bakery. On the one hand, the bread-based breads of French tradition and Red Label, from the mill of La Motte-Servolex. Dominique has a slow fermentation unleavened bread that guarantees more taste and better conservation. A bread 100% French wheat, without additive, shaped to 90% by hand! Every day, some kinds of bread with the queen, the stick but also of alpine bread, stone bread, beautiful rye pies… Irresistible reblochon bread and bacon cubes like sandwich, aperitif or salad. Two daily breads follow the chef's mood to vary the pleasures. Side desserts, completely homemade, color, harmonious forms playing with air and enchanting names! Dominica comes from the bakery. Ice creams, sorbets, fresh fruit jams, fruit pasta, small furnaces, macaroons, individual cakes or to share, you no longer know what to choose. A completely baked pastry and 100% cocoa butter from Valrhona for chocolate. Set for sweet brioches in tulip, fluffy and generous tulip but also for All Chocolate or Le based on milk chocolate foam, chestnut cream, milk caramel. A nice address that deserves a little detour!

An exceptional house that now has three addresses in Montélimar, in the city centre and on the outskirts. Here you can find good cakes, bread, chocolate, and of course nougat: from traditional recipes to more daring creations. During the Christmas holidays, you can even order the basket of the 13 Christmas desserts. The whole is run by a pastry chef-chocolate maker-confectioner awarded a diploma of Best Worker in France. The plus: possibility to order online. Good to know: the boutique route de Marseille is open 7 days a week.

While France remains one of the lands of pastry -and Rue Paul-Bert has at least a famous one…-, the United States is the land of pastry. Often, when travelling to the States, in New York, you wonder why one of these famous bakeries has not opened yet in our neighbourhood. So, that's done two steps from the train station of Part-Dieu with Dorodi Pastry, whose specialty is donut. Donut, it is a little like in our country the eclair or doughnut, a real inexhaustible source of little pleasures that do not really help to lose weight but are so much fun! Donuts in tens with seasonal flavours, but the dark chocolate is timeless in our opinion, muffins and cookies that are each better than the last, as well as gourmet cheesecakes to enjoy with a homemade lemonade. The only concern is that we must keep coming back to taste everything! Note that we can find Dorodi and the charming Myriam on the markets (Croix-Rousse, Quai Saint-Antoine).

For over a century, La Ruche Trianon has been famous for its Belle Epoque façade. An old store, but modern pastries. The creations are supervised by the artisan pastry chef and chocolatier Thierry Constant. Among the specialties of the house: the Devil's Sins (dark chocolate, milk ganache flavored with blood orange and ginger), Volcania (dark chocolates with hazelnut, raspberry and rum flavors), gentian chocolates, entremets, other creations. The house has a second point of sale in the Aubière area.

Norbert Chenevier is one of the Best Craftsmen of France who were distinguished a few years ago. His shop window is an invitation to happiness to arouse the taste buds: macaroons and chocolates, small and large cakes... The reputation of this craftsman, who works with hand-picked products, is well established! A simple pogne will do for a snack or a breakfast, while at Christmas and Easter the range of chocolates is extended and in summer the range of ice creams with numerous flavours. This is the home of an authentic defender of taste.

He returned to open his luxury boutique in his hometown after having made his arms among the largest in 2008. This new high-end address welcomes the gourmands. Pierre Clarissou's windows combine fine and original pastries. In addition to the collection of desserts that vary over the seasons, the house makes delicious fine chocolates developed in the French tradition of chocolate, fruit pulp, macaroons, caramels, meringues and even travel cakes to take on a hike or a return of travel to keep the roannaises flavours in mouth. Most: the chef for the private pastry classes. !!

A smiling welcome in this superb store with its stone and woodwork decoration, making it a tea room. How not to succumb to the temptation of the exquisite pastries of this renowned house for two generations? the "unavoidable" Chamonix is always on the menu (dark chocolate mousse, praline puff pastry and macaroon cookie). Excellent "homemade" ice creams, with a wide choice of flavors. To take some strength before shopping or when coming back from the slopes! Macaroons, tarts, pastries, everything is as beautiful as good!

What you're about to taste in Romaric Boilley's 3 Lyonnais boutiques and Tassin store is unique! Head for Les Brotteaux to discover the historic address of Délices des Sens, where the chef created his gourmet universe of exacting standards, excellence and originality from quality ingredients, almost 20 years ago. Starting with macaroons, especially those with salted butter caramel or homemade dark chocolate, unmissable specialties. Then there's 100% homemade desserts, including praline tarts and seasonal fruit tarts, as well as chocolates, spreads, cakes and ice creams... So many gourmet pleasures to savor.

Frédérick Fossey, pâtissier chocolatier, and his team make liters of ganache, nougats, fruit jellies, pralines and macaroons, as well as alcohol pearls for liqueur chocolates in boxes of all sizes. They make smooth, silky or tangy entremets and pastries, individually or for the whole family. Each year they offer a new range of logs. They also offer a snack shop, where you'll find the famous potato pâté, viennoiseries and breads of all kinds. Parking in front.

An address that night know well, because they can buy the warm croissants by leaving nightclubs, history of getting a little hunger and ending the evening in beauty. For 20 years, this bakery has made 100% house products. In the day you will find a good bread, including a landscape, but also good pastry and chocolates. Two specialties: the bread of Genoa, a almond cake and the Verney, a almond or, cream nougatine praline. Frozen desserts for amateurs and also a snacking part (croûte, quiches, thirsty). Toast, sofas, small furnaces and evening cakes on order. We love the warm welcome of this neighborhood bakery and close to the train station. 

Who hasn't dreamed of being able to indulge in a sweet treat without feeling guilty? With Pavone patisserie, that's now the case! Their tarts contain neither sugar nor white flour, which lowers the glycemic index. We love their original recipes, such as pear & hojicha tea, Granny Smith & hazelnut, or yuzu & black sesame. Some variants are vegan, gluten-free and lactose-free. So there's something for everyone!

Today, Stéphane Barthoux is at the helm of this veritable institution. Here, you'll find recipes dating back to the 1850s, such as praline, a true specialty of the town, whose recipe is carefully guarded. You can also try marzipan, small round cookies made from sugar, egg white and almonds, for which Stéphane has recovered the secret recipe. The pastry chef's own creations are also on offer, blending tradition and modernity. The house offers a whole range of chocolates, mendiants, individual cakes, logs and pièces montées.

The Rocagel house is famous for its Vic's pie. This Carladès speciality is made with flour, eggs and curdled milk or fresh tomme, slightly caramelized. The secret recipe has earned the artisan baker several awards including the Goudot d'or in 2008. But other delicacies are to be found in the shop window such as the carré de Vic or the cornet de Vic. And for a tasting on the spot, the shop is a tea room. Don't forget the quality of its breads.

Rue Chenoise is home to a gourmet institution that makes you want to love this entire neighborhood in the historic center. Since 1974, La Pao has been delighting lovers of handmade oriental pastries in the respect of tradition. La Pao is also a meeting place where people like to discuss local news while drinking tea and eating cakes. Date makrouds, almond kataïfs, flavored loukoums, walnut baklavas and many other wonders. If you don't know the place, just ask and you will be informed with a smile.

Sylvain, artisan patissier, chocolatier, ice-cream maker and confectioner, and his team work with raw materials selected for their high quality, in short circuits. A wide choice of products is on offer: personalized entremets, lemon cakes, candied fruit, dark chocolate, home-made frangipane cakes, palm-oil-free spreads, chocolate assortments, Christmas logs and entremets, home-made ice creams, eclairs, pièces montées, etc.

Marc, a pastry chef with a passion for his craft, has been creating delicious, refined chocolate and fruit entremets, in individual or family-size portions, for almost 30 years. He makes macaroons, including the exclusive Chocaté. Petit-fours and cakes, including his specialty, croquants d'Aurec. We also offer a whole range of chocolates in ballotins and fancy gift boxes, as well as fruit jellies, sold in retail or on skewers. You'll also find a range of Dammann Frères teas and tea-related items.

Délicat Délice lives up to its name: on the menu, pastries, chocolates and even ice cream in summer. The cakes are fine, tasty, and the flavors change with the seasons. An appetizing range of cakes is launched every Christmas, and custom-made cakes can be ordered. We recommend the Tikaho, ultra chocolatey. As for the chocolates, the range is good and varied, with a large choice for Easter and Christmas. We appreciate the pretty terrace which overhangs the Foron and which allows to have a pleasant view on the mountains while tasting its small sweetness.

Come and discover Fred's incredible pastry creations and trendy little desserts that she spices up according to her desires while keeping the basics. She creates nice associations, in harmonious declensions of colors, adding her touch of originality, without excess of sugar. Everything is of high precision, as much for the pleasure of the eyes with common markers lace, velvet, chocolate disc, as that of the papillae. Treat yourself with his delicacies at the Atelier Saint-Jean, to be enjoyed on the terrace of Canailles Saint-Jean.

Specializing in bakery products, it offers a variety of freshly baked pastries and breads.

In the heart of the city, you can find a great choice of homemade cakes - including a variety of cookies, cookies, pastries, tartlets… - or low-quality artisanales. Chocolate achievements are also to recommend a new welcome to indigestible indigestible.

Renaison is a charming town in France and home to the Pralus patisserie chocolaterie. This store offers a wide selection of delicious artisanal pastries and chocolates. The store follows the opening hours of Les Halles de Renaison.

Who hasn't heard of donuts, the round-shaped doughnuts popular in North America? Morad Asnabla has decided to reinvent them. He doesn't use frozen doughnuts, but instead makes his own, using local produce whenever possible. The variations are varied, from classic sugar doughnuts, to gourmet pastry-style doughnuts, to refined doughnuts with original flavors. On the savoury side, he reinvents burgers in the form of "bangers", composed of a croissant-style flaky bun, topped with Panko chicken, beef and bacon, or avocado for his vegetarian version.

Treat yourself to the seasonal fruit or chocolate pies, pastries, ice cream, sorbets from the pastry shop/tea room of Céline, Louis and their team. Everything is homemade, to be enjoyed with tea, coffee or homemade hot chocolate. Their creativity makes it possible to regularly discover new products such as 100% pecan pies or chestnut nuns. Also a whole range of sweets, desserts and individual and family cakes, logs, pancakes... They also make a typical Bourbonnais cake, the piquenchâgne.

The colors, shapes and flavors of Paul Jaillot's pastries leave no one indifferent. Originally from the Ardèche, he has conquered the finest palates. The recipes are finger-licking good. To take the time to taste them, it is possible to settle comfortably on the terrace. In summer, sweet and savory homemade ice creams are offered. The tea room is also open at noon. Salad bar and plates are on the menu. The drinks are local. As the holidays approach, homemade chocolates become the stars.

Everyone has the right to indulge in good food. A big bravo to Liber'Tart, which is not only a 100% gluten-free and healthy patisserie, but also a Japanese-influenced canteen, blending in every case flavors from here and abroad. Franck Moulard doesn't just offer a delicious tarte Tatin, blueberry tart or citrus tart, he also offers an extensive menu of sandwiches, savory tarts, soups and Japanese canteen dishes made by Yukiko. Meals can also be prepared for people with gluten and lactose intolerance, other allergies and diets (vegetarian or vegan). Long live the freedom to eat well!

Here, everything is done to combine the pleasure of the eyes and the taste buds. An old style front, a nicely decorated and stocked shop window, elegant and tasty pastries, melting chocolates, pastries with a good taste of butter... If the classic products are highlighted, you will also find fruit jellies from Auvergne, old-fashioned sweets or even pretty coated dried fruits. Each product is worked with passion. An address not to be missed in Issoire for gourmets and lovers of beautiful pastries.

Franck Deville is the macaroni maker of the chefs! He delights the taste buds with his multiple flavoured macaroons and has acquired a solid reputation in France and internationally! He preciously keeps the secret of the basic recipe of the macaroon shell, simple but delicious. Nevertheless, in his show-room in Roche-la-Molière, you will discover all the flavours through his collection of sweet macaroons with chocolate, raspberry, grenadine praline, ice-cold mint and the sweet and sour macaroon collection with green olive tapenade, goat's cheese and Espelette chilli pepper, and snail persillade. It even marries foie gras and chocolate!