The best pastry shops Bastia

Here, you're greeted with a smile and the smell of freshly baked cookies. We love the canistrelli, dry cakes with flavors from the maquis and elsewhere: figs, chocolate, white wine... It's hard to bring back a more gourmet gift from the island of Beauty, but you can also enjoy them on site, indoors or out on the terrace. As for the shop window, it serves as a showcase not only for Corsican specialities such as migliacciu, cheese cakes, but also for cookies and other sweets, each more delicious than the last.

We are formal, the best canistrelli of Corsica are a stone's throw from the old port of Bastia, at Mireille's house! Mireille, almost 50 years old and her mother Felicie, 90 years old, work under your eyes in their small shop of barely thirty square meters. Here, the recipes are authentic. You will find canistrelli, frappes (the famous fritters), fiadone (brocciu cake) and other Corsican delicacies. And if you arrive at the right time, every holiday of the year also has its speciality: Pentecost, All Saints' Day, Easter, Saint Joseph, etc. Mireille and Félicie also offer some salty snacks such as the famous Migliacci or La Bastelle (chard and broccoli slippers), but you will have to come early to buy some because they are very quickly victims of their success every day. It is said that if you walk down the street at cooking time, you will succumb to temptation.