The best pastry shops Rhône-Alpes

Meilleur ouvrier de France in 2004 and world pastry champion in 2006, Bruno Montcoudiol has been delivering excellence at Monistrol since 2008! All his creations (macaroons, shortbread, chocolates, including spreads and ice creams) are the result of a fine search for combinations of textures, tastes and colours. This creator of delicacies, as he defines himself, uses seasonal products on a daily basis and, whenever possible, from short circuits. Pleasure for the eye and the taste buds, you won't be disappointed!

Artisan patissiers Guillaume Bois and Loïc Vendramini create chocolates, ice creams and festive desserts, as well as pizzas and savoury pieces for cocktail parties. Simply place an order for any occasion (weddings, birthdays, vernissage...).

A bakery and patisserie just like you've always dreamed of. Stéphanie and Adrien are a team in life and at work. She's an adorable, attentive receptionist. He's a pastry chef by trade, with a background in baking. The results are delicious. Breads made from local flours and delicious pastries, a treat in keeping with seasonal produce. Viennoiseries, including a marvellous pistachio triangle, entremets, homemade fruit jellies, chocolates, special breads, not forgetting the snack formula at lunchtime. Wedding platters.

Passionate about pastry since he was a child, Jean-Baptiste Soulière now enjoys reworking the great classics of the profession. He brings his own touch of creativity and modernity and uses quality raw materials, such as Rouge des Dômes strawberries for his strawberry/basil tart. At the beginning of the year, let yourself be tempted by his excellent galettes, filled with a frangipane made with coarsely crushed whole almonds.

Marcus is a manufacturer of handmade cookies for individuals and professionals. He adds a touch of class to all the important moments in your life: birthdays, weddings, christenings, and supplies works councils. We love the original flavors: Lyon pink pralines, M&M's, caramel milk, pecan nuts, milk chocolate pistachios, caramelized white chocolate, dark chocolate chips and Vichy pastilles, among other new products. You'll find him at farmers' markets, local produce markets and other events around the region. Workshops for all to come.

Hervé Durif and Cédric Lahaye, friendly Compagnons du Tour de France, are located in the capital of Auvergne, a stone's throw from the Place de Jaude. This bakery-pastry shop offers a very complete range of desserts. The emphasis is on exotic flavors and elegant creations: passion fruit tarts with macaroons, a basket of nougatines filled with balls of sorbets with island flavors, verrines... Available on order: surprise bread, petits fours, salted cakes, mignardises, etc. Guaranteed success for your receptions and festive meals!

Emilie in Les Deux Alpes is pure indulgence! Trained by the best pastry chefs, Emilie has brought a pastry shop up to date, offering us her creations made with seasonal produce, preferably local. Enjoy a delicious blueberry tarte de l'Oisans, a Lauze or a seasonal cake on the terrace or at home. Other delights include homemade chocolates and wonderful viennoiseries to get the day off to a good start. A real treat.

There are doughnuts and there are doughnuts, and the ones you can enjoy at this address - which was able to reopen after some renovation work - are what you might call "a dinguerie"! Okay, we won't count the calories, we're here to enjoy ourselves first and foremost! So, on the spot or to take away, come and enjoy all the delicious sweet and gourmet surprises. Cleverly filled and generously topped space donuts for XXL delights, like this Kinder Maxi. Pancakes and cookies in the same spirit, not forgetting the syrups that replace sodas and the amazing possibility of personalizing your drink with the photo of your choice (how do they do it??). Brunchs to be announced this summer.

Best apprentice in France, Alexis Thauvin chose Clermont-Ferrand to open his first establishment. He comes from Cahors, his partner Marie, who works in the establishment, studied in Chamalières. Here, everything is made on the spot, from pastries to macaroons, including spreads and bread for sandwiches. As for the pastries, Alexis revisits the classics and offers fruity or chocolate flavored desserts. We want to try them all.

In the middle of summer, the queue stretches out on the sidewalk. We quickly understand this craze once we have tasted the products and the friendliness of the team. The breads are delicious and varied, ranging from the Murolaise to the Authentique and the organic cereal bread. Choosing quality raw materials is a priority for Renaud and Irina. The pastries, for example, are all made with AOP butter and Valrhona chocolate. The pastries color the inside window and call for greed. Everything can be enjoyed on the terrace.

Notice to all gourmands and chocolate addicts of all kinds. This is the perfect address to treat yourself. Between the excellent viennoiseries, mignardises, refined and graphic entremets, top-of-the-range chocolates, artisanal ice creams and salted products. During the festive season, the whole team works hard to create superb chocolate, exotic or acidic logs, as well as their amazing Christmas ball-shaped entremets in four flavours. You can now order online. Amaze your guests at dessert time.

In this online-only establishment (website or social networks), everything is made in an artisanal way: from marshmallows to spreads, including sorbets, ice creams, or traditional macaroons. And by the way, the pastries and chocolates are made from local products and are free of coloring, preservatives and artificial flavors. In short, there's plenty to enjoy and, as the icing on the cake, this pastry chef chooses seasonal products and the creations can be personalized.

It's so delicious, Le Petit Futé couldn't resist! Glood Cookies is a range of delicious cookies designed entirely by the small hands of Ingrid, "Glood" from her nickname. The new boutique opened on rue Gambetta at the end of 2023, with a beautiful workspace upstairs. Note that the preparations are made with top-quality products, like this raspberry cookie created from homemade organic raspberry-flavored butter. We also like the responsible approach with local producers and recyclable packaging.

In the heart of downtown Saint-Etienne, take a gourmet break in the temple of the cookie. Théo, pastry chef and chocolatier, worked with the Meilleur ouvrier de France before creating this beautiful project, which showcases all his know-how and creativity. In this little boutique, you'll find original cookies (which change every month and whose products are inspired by the seasons) as well as pastries like the "pistache" made with pistachio paste, roasted pistachios and vanilla caramel, and the "gourmands" with Nutella, which melts in your mouth. The light, low-sugar dough contains no refined sugar. So, how about a cookie?

Push open the door of this chocolate, cookie and confectionery shop. You'll fall in love with the beautiful brioches you can enjoy with the spread of your choice, or with small or large chocolate bars. Don't miss the astonishing Charroux purple mustard macaroon. You'll also find plenty of retail chocolates, caramels, nougats, mignardises and other delicacies on the shelves. Chocolate fountain. Some lovely gift ideas for Christmas, for decoration (objects, bowls, mugs...) or tasting (nougats, calissons, teas...).

Vanessa and Jérôme run two boulangeries-pâtisseries, one of which is also a cookie factory perpetuating a family history, thanks to a traditional recipe for small shortbreads, Saint-Pourci'Noix®, as well as a range of Auvergne and Rochers de la Sioule shortbreads. They make all kinds of breads and savoury preparations. They create cakes for every occasion. On request, they can create gift baskets. A wide range of snacks and lunch menus.

This pastry and chocolate shop in the old part of Montferrand offers several sweet and savoury specialities. The house specialty is the "white mullet" in reference to local history. It is available in chocolate sweetness, with praline lightly flavoured with Cointreau and in white chocolate, dark chocolate and praline feuilletine pastries. Enough to delight the most discerning palates! Jean-Pierre Perrin, master craftsman, and Valérie, work with chocolate from the finest vintages. We warmly recommend this place which will awaken your senses.

Well-known in the region, Bruno Guerpillon has been delighting gourmets for over 20 years, with his own original recipes and revisited traditional ones, made from rigorously selected ingredients. You'll love our range of pastries, available in our stores and online. Cakes, yes, but chocolates too! Discover the chocolate moccasin, more masculine than its counterpart the escarpin, or the cabosse, as gourmand as its belly contains beggars and other mini-tablets.

Don't look for any summit in Savoie with that name. She's a Bellequoise from Beaulieu-sur-Layon in Maine-et-Loire, home of Arnaud Bertrand, our baker of the day, who makes traditional bread with high-quality French Banette flour. A well-baked bread with a thick crust to develop more flavors. All breads are stone-baked, as before, from below. Traditional baguettes, organic breads, a dozen special breads. Try the pain d'automne, a farmhouse bread with milk, honey and dried fruit. Patisserie is mainly made in-house, with specialties including millefeuille, tarte Tatin and Belledonne, a simple but fresh blueberry shortbread dome with Chiboust cream. Meal formulas with a wide choice of 35 sandwiches and mixed salads concocted in the back store with fresh produce.

After a change of hands and some renovation work, the pastry shop of Armand and Noélie Pagès now clearly asserts its own identity. With the same passion as the previous owners, the young couple is delighting a clientele that loves refined pastries. As a fervent defender of 100% home-made products, the pastry chef is committed to making them according to the seasons and special occasions. Strawberries, fruit charlottes and crackers are displayed alongside candies, chocolates and other fruit jellies.

Pâtisserie chocolate-chocolate is among the best addresses of the city roannaise, a family house where chocolates are made on site. You have the classics of fine chocolates and as there are specific creations for Easter and Christmas. You will also find a wide selection of season desserts. And for your assembled parts this is possible too! All facets of a trade, conducted in accordance with traditions.

Le Comptoir du Chocolat is a patisserie located in Boën. Specializing in top-of-the-range chocolate creations, this store offers a wide selection of chocolate subjects made from Valrhona chocolate, a leading chocolate house. Among the creations on offer are booties, small bags and coffee cups, as well as small cars, buses, trains and their carriages, and a toolbox. The store also offers chocolate containers to fill to your heart's content. For those who wish to place an order, it is advisable to do so in advance.

Located in Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert, this workshop produces a wide range of artisanal cookies in a friendly, family atmosphere. So if you'd like to indulge in shortbread, cookies, cat's tongues, meringues or coconut rochers, head over to the eshop, where you can place a tasty, gourmet order. You can also find the cookies in various outlets, notably supermarkets, in the Plaine and Vallée du Gier. At Gamm Vert, you'll find these sweets under the name Gourmélia, a brand created especially for this store.

When it's time for a snack, My Cookies is the place to be. Right in the center of Andrézieux-Bouthéon, Cindy offers a gourmet assortment of lovingly baked cookies. The choice is colossal: in addition to traditional chocolate chip cookies, you'll find filled cookies in some fifteen different flavors. Blueberry, chestnut cream, lemon... Cindy also offers brookies and XXL cookies. A very pretty address, with a very friendly welcome!

Since the opening of Moonbo, life has been rosy on Place de l'Hôtel de Ville. This original, gourmet coffee-shop was created by our Clermont-Ferrand neighbors. With its sweet and savoury selection, Moonbo's menu is mouth-watering. The donut is the star of the menu, and comes in several well-known flavors: Kinder, Oreo, speculoos... Head for a bagel for lunch, with chicken, turkey or salmon. For the thirsty, your heart can sway between a latte, a milkshake, or a bubble tea with tapioca pearls.

Beautiful brick architecture, bay windows and an arbour terrace for this Maison Guillet store, run by Lou and César Guillet (^3rd generation). Committed to the bakery tradition, La Fabrique offers long opening hours, top-of-the-range pastries, fresh viennoiseries and a savoury range of quality snacks. The bread is often organic, always made with natural sourdough and local flours, and the result of slow kneading and long fermentation. And the 3 bars of chocolate in the pain au chocolat are the hallmark of this gourmet house!

Biscuiterie RéminiSans takes this name to reflect the two aspects of its concept: re-establishing the pleasure of eating without restriction, inspired by Proust's famous madeleine, and the term "sans" underlines the absence of gluten and other ingredients such as dairy products, eggs, nuts... La Biscuiterie offers very healthy products: bread, banana breads, cookies and other sweets. RéminiSans will pass on its values through cooking classes, which will be organized in 2024.

Sébastien Brocard represents excellence in pastry-making, sharing his high standards and sensitivity. An exceptional career for this pastry chef and chocolatier (gold medal for best apprentice, finalist in the French Pastry Cup, gold medal in the French Dessert Championship), who treats us to marvellous desserts made with the finest ingredients. Unforgettable sensations with the rhythm of the seasons and gourmet desires with a Geneva-Lausanne.

A renowned patissier-chocolatier-glacier and a gourmet address well worth a visit. In 2021, Franck Broyer gave way to one of his employees, who has successfully taken over the business, respecting the original quality. The store window is a real eye-opener. Individual cakes, entremets to share, chocolates, macaroons, order cakes... One thing's for sure: you won't leave without your selection of gourmet treats. We always recommend this fine patisserie with the same conviction.

A collection of pure butter sweet cookies and pure olive oil savory crackers with seeds, 100% organic and handcrafted, using mostly local ingredients: that's the commitment of this young gourmet brand that set up shop in Grane, in the Crestois region. Since then, we've been enjoying the crunchy little squares as aperitifs, with pumpkin or black cumin seeds, chocolate and sunflower seeds, lemon and poppy, lavender and many other flavors. Shortbread can be eaten in one bite, and so can crackers!

In the gourmet series of single-product boutiques, here's the madeleine. Childhood memories or not, the madeleine offers much more than a comforting bite in this deliciously regressive boutique. Young chef Antoine Dubois revisits the madeleine in all sizes, up to XXL, with real cakes - and even logs for the holidays - and in all flavors. Made with top-quality ingredients, including Valrhona chocolates for the hulled madeleines (our favorite...), the madeleines reach their peak in the pastry version, with "classics" and regular novelties (pineapple, speculoos...). Another delightful boutique in the ^6th arrondissement.

Between Brotteaux and Tête d'Or, the two Dorner brothers, Maxime, a pastry chef who has worked in Michelin-starred establishments, and Gauthier, a chef and travel manager, continue to develop their gourmet idea: revisit the great pastry classics and give free rein to their imagination with delicious creations. In this lively setting, where you can sit in a cosy dining room or on the terrace, gourmands savour desserts that are transformed into veritable jewels. Spectacular fruit tarts, colorful creations, head-turning mille-feuille... Brioches and giant madeleines, chocolates and pleasures to take away or share in this beautiful tasting area.

When it comes to desserts, pavlova is the gateway to heaven. What is a pavlova? It's a dessert of incredible lightness, just like the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova for whom the recipe was created. It's made from a base of meringue, both crunchy and soft, topped with whipped cream and fresh fruit. So when master pastry chef Joël Maier offers us the "king dessert" on a seasonal menu of individual or shared pavlovas, each more sublime than the last, it's an absolute delight. Pavlovas to take away, but also to enjoy every weekend with the brunch at the Salle à Manger on rue Mercière.

Samuel and his team create gourmet and refined pastries made with fresh and artisanal products. Discover in their superb and tempting windows their sweet creations of season, realized each day with care on the spot. They make individual pastries, desserts, brioches, pastries, macaroons, confectionery, chocolates and ice cream. Assembled pieces on order. Savoury side, sandwiches, wraps, croque-monsieur. In the summer, they also make mixed salads, vegetarian and gluten-free products.

Maison Antoine may no longer be located on Quai Saint-Antoine, but it's still firmly established on this corner of Rue de la Charité. A beautiful gourmet showcase full of natural light, with large bay windows and a small terrace just a stone's throw from Place Bellecour for a gourmet break. A Maison Antoine that breaks away from the codes of the traditional tearoom to offer a range of tasty snacks, from sandwiches to poke bowls. Pastries that combine flavor and beauty with subtly revisited classics, some of the city's best viennoiseries and breads made from regional flours. From gourmet breakfasts to shareable snacks.

St-Just-St-Rambert has no shortage of good pastries! Near the banks of the Loire, La Muscadine, run by Julien and Richard Joassard, is a reference address to please you every day or to offer a moment of greediness on a special occasion... your guests will not be disappointed! As beautiful as they are delicious, the desserts, pies, tarts, boxes and frozen desserts are as classic as they are unbridled: the majestic Croustichoc, Fleur de Vanille or Mistral rub shoulders with a ball of pétanque or Sergio the Lama in chocolate! Try one of the latest creations: Eden, made with roasted peaches, a hint of rosemary and a sparkling almond... it has a little taste of paradise!

In this historic boutique, a veritable institution in Chambéry, Cédric Pernot deploys all his expertise to offer you an unforgettable taste experience! The ambience of the store is designed down to the smallest detail to enhance the cakes. Don't miss out on the famous lollipops, so popular with everyone, and with good reason! It's with discretion but obvious passion that this young patissier has been admitted to the exclusive Relais Desserts association, bringing together the elite of French artisan patissiers and chocolatiers, a guarantee of quality and excellence.

The beautiful story is that of Maël and Roxana, graduates of the Alain Ducasse school in Yssingeaux, who, after selling their products on the Croix-Rousse markets, took over a historic patisserie-chocolaterie (Galland for 40 years) in the Jean Macé district. Lalibela is a gourmet treasure trove run by artisans of taste who share their know-how and creativity, and put a lot of love into everything they do. Viennoiseries, brioches - babka with pink praline... -cakes, small and large cakes, a superb lemon meringue pie, delicious tiramisu with organic Ethiopian coffee and Valrhona chocolate... Tearoom to savour the joy of being at Lalibela.

Cookies, cakes, entremets, macaroons, tarts... In Anne Meunier's pastel-colored tea room, flavors and colors appeal to all our senses. First installed in Sainte-Florine, the pastry chef had to enlarge her store. So she moved to Issoire. In addition to the delicious pastries, chocolates are made. Seated in the nicely decorated room, you can see the team working through the glass roof. Lunch formulas are also available. Here, everything is home-made with seasonal products.

Their product range specializes in the use of natural sourdough and offers a variety of breads of the world, brioches, panettones, pizzas, cookies and other delicacies to delight your taste buds. Utopia also offers gluten-free and vegan products. The bakery is easily accessible from the traffic circles at the entrance to the town, with parking access. For travelers, it is close to the Montélimar Nord exit n°17, direction Le Teil, Alba La Romaine.

From an early age, Christophe Tafforeau has nurtured an unshakeable passion for pastry-making. At just 30, he was appointed head pastry chef at the prestigious Le Meurice palace. In addition to delicious chocolates, you'll have the opportunity to sample the daily special, as well as savoury tarts and mixed salads, among other options, at Chocolat' the. With an indoor space and a terrace, this place has become a must-visit gathering place in Albertville. It's the perfect place for lunch!

This is one of 4 Pascalis addresses specializing in Romans pogne. The company has been in existence since 1892. It is also present in Romans, as it should be, and in Bourg-de-Péage (new address in Chanas-Corson). A house that knows how to handle orange blossom and praline, butter and marshmallow. Sweet versions of the great local traditions, such as the pogne de Romans and the suisse de Valence, a famous shortbread available in different sizes, as well as the saint-genix and the craqueline, are the stars here. On-site: a pogne museum (free).

Chocoline is a bakery. It offers a welcoming and convivial tea room. Chocoline does not offer a delivery service, but you can order takeaway. Chocoline is a family-run bakery offering a wide range of quality products.