Gourmet products local specialties and wines Route 66

Do you dream of a good rich pastry or a crispy baguette? If you are caught up in a very French desire, Baker Miller will offer you everything you can dream of! Everything here is homemade. In addition to the bread you can buy at retail, you can have lunch, the cuisine is simple and made of sandwiches and salads. Don't miss cookies and sweet cakes, they're great. The particularity of the place is that Chef Dave makes his own flour at the back of the restaurant.

Alongside traditional Italian espressos and cappuccinos (which are far better than most Las Vegas coffees), this spot opened by coffee brand Illy offers a wide range of mouth-watering ice cream flavors. There's something for everyone (blood orange, tiramisu, peanut butter, Nutella coffee crunch, cheesecake...). Pastries, salads, soups, sandwiches and other savory snacks are also on the menu. Prices are unfortunately rather high, but still more affordable than many other places on the Strip.

Located in New York-New York, Hershey's Chocolate World will delight chocolate lovers, especially milk chocolate, the house specialty. Over two floors and more than 130^m2, the establishment offers more than 800 chocolates and candies, and features a sculpture of the Statue of Liberty made from almost 800 lbs (more than 360 kg) of milk chocolate. Impressive. In addition to chocolates, you can also sample Reese's famous peanut butter mini-pies.

Like all Americans in big cities, Chicagoans have been going green in recent years, judging by the multiplication of farmers markets in the city. There are organic products sold by the farmers themselves, honey, soap, flowers, vegetables and fruit... The prices are not cheap, but the atmosphere is friendly. Farmers will even give you recipes to prepare small dishes from their products. From November to April, the market is held in the Peggy Notebaert Museum.

If you miss France, stop at La Fournette! This typically French family bakery offers all kinds of pastries, quiches and various breads, prepared by chef Pierre Zimmermann, 1996 world champion baker. There are also pancakes, salads and sandwiches that you can enjoy on the spot. Just like the artisan shops that surround it in the charming Old Town district, this bakery café provides quality products that delight regulars and visitors alike.

A very popular market among the inhabitants of the district, where you can find a wide variety of products, often local: fruits and vegetables, honey, flowers, farm products (eggs, milk, meat...), fresh juices or pastries. You can also eat on site thanks to the Mexican food truck, the salad bar or the pancake stand. In the fall, pumpkins of all sizes invade the market! Friendly atmosphere.

The French chef Vincent Colombet runs this bakery which sells all the sweets we know well: baguettes, croissants, chocolate breads... You can eat on the spot but the place is quickly crowded, it is better to opt for a delicious pancake - a speciality of the house - to eat while strolling. If you are lucky, you can also meet the food truck of the bakery that walks the streets of Chicago. It is better to visit the establishment's site to find out where the truck is going.

This delicious chain is named after its founder, Jeni Britton Bauer, who opened her first store in 1996 under the name Scream. She launched the very first Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams store six years later. Her recipe for success: creamy, gourmet ice creams. Gooey butter cake - dark chocolate truffle, cinnamon roll, peanut butter... Hard to resist!

Opened in 1983, Diddy Riese is a true Westwood institution. Its mission: to serve tasty, gourmet artisanal products at unbeatable prices. While it has always offered delicious brownies, cookies and ice cream, this address built its reputation on its Ice Cream Sandwich, a scoop of ice cream sandwiched between two enormous cookies, served for the first time in 1995. The line can be long, but the experience is well worth the detour and allows you to immerse yourself in the 100% student life of the neighborhood.

Classic recipes include The Promise Ring, a donut covered in chocolate, maple syrup or plain icing, and the Rites of Sprinkles, a vanilla cake topped with chocolate or vanilla and confetti. But Donut Friend is also known for its original creations, such as the Youth Brulée, filled with Bavarian cream, and the Green Teagan and Sara, topped with matcha tea and sesame seeds. Special mention for the X-Ray Speculoos, as delicious as it is hearty. A huge favorite!

As its name suggests, this Los Angeles-based company, founded in 1972, specializes in cheesecakes: what began as a small shop has become a company with over 200 locations in the USA. On the menu: some thirty delicious cheesecakes, each more gourmet and hearty than the last, among which the simple and evocative Original stands out. While desserts can be ordered at any time of day, The Cheesecake Factory also serves savory dishes for lunch and dinner.

Macaroons, cupcakes, viennoiseries, tartelettes amandines, bear claw- a typically American pastry, originating in the 1920s -, sublime cakes and pièces montées... Gourmet alert! A family-run, old-fashioned bakery in the heart of West L.A.'s Chinese-American district. A rather confidential address, it's aimed above all at sweet tooths who want to take something to eat before setting off to explore the city. Delicious creations at prices that couldn't be cheaper.

Founded in 2006, this small, family-run establishment specializes in the artisanal preparation of ice creams for the general public, as well as those based on plant-based milk. Madagascar vanilla, Ecuadorian chocolate, hazelnut, coffee, stracciatella, cookies and cream, vegan dark chocolate, toasted coconut, strawberry or mango sorbet... These are the classic flavors. Young and old alike also flock to Pazzo Gelato for its more original flavors, such as avocado, banana with dulce de leche, brown sugar with candied bacon, or salted butter caramel. Delicious!

The aim of Emili's Pastry & Cafe? To offer customers an "authentic European experience". Lemon meringue tarts, crème brûlées, Napoleon, opera, linzer torte revisited... In the window, the great classics of pastry excellence rub shoulders with the must-haves of the "Danish breakfast" - a reference to the term "viennoiseries" - ranging from butter croissants toapple strudel , almond croissants and palmiers. Also on the menu: a vast selection of muffins, quiches and coffee. Delicious!

This small chain of bakeries, which also operates in Hollywood, Highland Park and outside Los Angeles in South Pasadena, was founded by Alfredo Livas and Ricardo Cervantes as a tribute to their native Mexico. In the window: pan dulce, conchas - traditional sweet rolls - taquitos, chocolate croissants, corn bread - pan de elote - cocadas - a delicacy made from shredded coconut - and guava cake, among others. People also come for the delicious coffee, which can be bought in bags.

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Like many big cities in the United States, Las Vegas has its Chinatown where Chinese businesses gather under pagoda-shaped roofs. Every year, the famous dragon dance is performed there for the Chinese New Year. However, the place is far from matching the Chinatowns of San Francisco and New York: most of the facades are purely decorative and the buildings form a large classical shopping mall. There are about fifteen stalls, restaurants, bars and about twenty stores (supermarket, bookstore, decoration).