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Easter chocolates in 2025 in Paris
Source : https://www.marieclaire.fr/cuisine/selection-plus-beaux-oeufs-paques-2025,1472231.asp
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The Gerbeaud café in Budapest, Hungary (2016)
I ate the famous Palascinta (Hungarian sweet pancakes) at the Gerbeaud café in Budapest, in 2016. It is a pastry with a blend of several flavours (apricot, walnuts, vanilla and chocolate). The atmosphere and decoration are elegant, chic and timeless. In 1858, Henrik Kugler opened a café in Budapest ( József nádor Square). His shop…
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Favourite culinary specialities in Bourgogne, France
Cheese gougère, snails of bourgogne, wine of Bourgogne and mustard are my Favourite culinary specialities in Bourgogne, France. There are others specialities in Bourgogne like beef bourguignon (beef with wine, onions, bacon and mushrooms), wine rooster, truffle of bourgogne, Chablis wine, aligoté (wine), sauvignon, œuf en meurette (poached egg with red wine and bacon), marbled…
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Favourite sweet specialities in Bourgogne, France
Ginger bread, blackcurrant (fruit, jam, candies, cream, sirup…) and nonnettes (round small pastry with ginger bread, often with jam inside) are my favourite sweet specialities in Bourgogne, France. There are other sweet specialities in Bourgogne like anise of Flavigny, gamblettes (small cakes with almond, ginger bread, peels, spices and candies fruits), cramaillotte (dandelion jelly with…
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Alsatian Christmas pastries
Homemade Alsatian Christmas bredele (Étoiles à la cannelle, Linzer…).
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Delightful and ravishing pastries at Gilles Marchal
I discovered this beautiful and delicious pastry shop when i walked on the hill of Montmartre in Paris. The decoration and the pastries are very refined. The chandelier, the madeleine printed wallpaper and the door handle in the form of a madeleine are charming. The shop proposes French pastries (St Honoré, Mont-blanc, eclair…), biscuits (madeleine,…
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An enchanting timeless breakfast at Angelina
I tasted the breakfast at the famous Tea house Angelina in Paris. Angelina was founded in 1903 by Antoine Rumpelmayer and the decoration was designed by the famous Belle Epoque architect Edouard-Jean Niermans. The decor is finely-worked and sophisticated with gildings, murals and mouldings, ledges, medaillons… It is an ravishing and timeless place. My favourite…
