Mamie gâteaux, Il Gelato del Marchese, Thé-ritoires, Colorova and Ladurée are my favourite tea houses in the 6th arrondissement of Paris.
Unfortunately, Un dimanche à Paris is definitively closed.
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An impressionist Easter egg
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Jacques Génin Easter egg and the Van Gogh painting (The starry night).
Favourite French culinary specialities
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Photo sources : marché de rungis, Amandine cooking, culinotest.fr and culture crunch
An Italian tea time at Cova in Paris (near the Samaritaine store)
A chic and timeless tea time at the Grand Véfour in Paris
Delicious Christmas cakes in Paris
The Gerbeaud café in Budapest, Hungary (2016)
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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. … Continue reading
Tea time in Paris 2
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Tomo and Dépôt légal are my favourite tea times in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris. Bernardaud’s teapot and an ancient mahogany shelf (Napoleon III).
A golden teacup
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Homemade Alsatian Christmas pastries
Wonderful and delicious Christmas pastries in 2020
Parisian pastries 2/2
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The Flan pâtissier is a flan (an egg cream beaten with milk and baked in an oven) put on a short pastry. « Baba au rhum is a light cake raised with yeast, containing raisins and dried fruits and soaked … Continue reading
Parisian pastries 1/2
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Chouquettes are small choux pastries with pearl sugar. The choux pastry dated from the 16th century and was invented by the Italian Popelini who was the pastry cook of the French Queen Catherine de Médicis (1519-1589). In 1760, Jean Avice … Continue reading
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This floral wall was designed by Nicolas Gilsoul for the tenth anniversary of the exhibition “Jardins, Jardin”. Moreover, the cups are from Villeroy & Boch (Manoir tasse à café sans soucoupe).
Photo source : garancejardin.canalblog.com
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Homemade Alsatian Christmas pastries
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We made Alsatian pastries for Christmas : Cinnamon stars or Zimtsterne (soft cinnamon cakes recovered with icing sugar), Kouglof (Brioche with raisins and almonds, shaped in a special mould with a hole in the middle) , Spiced bredele, Florentins (biscuits … Continue reading
Easter sweets 2019
Favourite culinary specialities in Bourgogne, France
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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 … Continue reading
Favourite sweet specialities in Bourgogne, France
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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 … Continue reading
Alsatian Christmas pastries
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Homemade Alsatian Christmas bredele (Étoiles à la cannelle, Linzer…).
A gourmet Christmas in Alsace
In the set, there are my favourite Alsatian pastries for Christmas : Cinnamon stars or Zimtsterne (soft cinnamon cakes recovered with icing sugar), Kouglof (Brioche with raisins and almonds, shaped in a special mould with a hole in the middle) , Shortbread linzer (chocolate and spiced biscuit filled with jam), Spiced bredele, Florentins (biscuits with almonds, crystallized orange and lemon barks), Stollen (Christmas fruit bread with almond paste), Spitzbueben (filled biscuits with jam) and Berawecka (Christmas fruit and nuts bread).
Wonderful and delicious Christmas pastries (2018)
Easter sweets
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The teddy bear in milk chocolate, the pinapple in dark chocolate and the bunny in white chocolate are from the French pastry Karamel Paris. The funny bunny with yellow glasses in dark chocolate is a creation of the French pastry … Continue reading
Easter sweets 2018
Delicious homemade pastries for Christmas
Christmas teas
Christmas 2017 sweets
Celebrating Christmas with marvellous pastries (2017)
Delicious Advent calendars
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Advent calendars to drink : Advent calendars to degust : Photo sources : sortiraparis.com, cosmopolitan.com, iletaitunefoislapatisserie.com, chocoladdict.com, odelices.com, kissmychef.com, parisianavores.paris, vanityfair.fr, doctissimo.fr, 30ansoupresque.com, femina.fr and arts-et-gastronomie.com.
Tea time in Paris 7
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The gold bowls (ZEN) and the tea pots (LUCKY STAR and BRÛLE PARFUM) are from Mariage Frères. In addition, the bookcase dates from the 19th century and is in speckled mahogany and gilt bronze. Besides, the red silk peonies are from Wayfair … Continue reading
Favourite tea times in Paris 16
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The white cups (Manoir tasse à café sans soucoupe) are from Villeroy & Boch. Besides, the background represents Paris and is from the Disney movie “The aristocats”.
Easter sweets 2017
Christmas pastries : An enchantment for the palate and the eyes (2016)
Halloween sweets
Savoring delicious and ravishing pastries at l’Osmanthe in Paris
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L’Osmanthe is a pretty and peaceful tea room where we can taste ravishing and delicious pastries. The Chef Fang Jin realizes marvellous French pastries and creates original cakes with Asian flavours (matcha, green tea…). I degusted the fruity and slight … Continue reading
A royal tea time with Marie-Antoinette at Nina’s in Paris
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Nina’s was orginally a perfume distillery company founded in 1672 by Pierre Diaz. This firm was the supplier of fragrances for King Louis XIV and the Court of Versailles. The Queen Marie-Antoinette liked particulary the lavender and rose fragrances. Today, … Continue reading
A gourmet and elegant Tea time near to the Tuileries at Sebastien Gaudard in Paris
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Closed to the Tuileries, there is the wonderful and refined pastry and tea house “Sébastien Gaudard”. We can degust delicious traditional French pastries and savouring tea. Sébastien Godard is one of my favourite pastry chef in Paris. The decoration is … Continue reading
A Japanese-French fusion Tea time at Sadaharu Aoki in Paris
Sadaharu Aoki is a reputed Japanese pastry maker. The Japanese flavours (black sesame, matcha…) add a Japanese touch to French pastries (eclairs, puff cakes, Opera…). My favourite pastry is the black sesame eclair. It is delicious!
I tasted also the matcha puff cake and It was very tasty. Matcha is a traditional Japanese green tea which is made from powdered green tea leaves. Besides, i savoured a delicate genmaicha tea (Japanese tea made from roasted tea leaves and toasted rice).
I went to the Aoki’s shop located 56, boulevard de Port-Royal 75005 paris. There are others shops in Paris.
The official website : http://www.sadaharuaoki.com
Easter in Wonderland
Delightful and ravishing pastries at Gilles Marchal
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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 … Continue reading
An enchanting timeless breakfast at Angelina
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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 … Continue reading
Christmas gifts for tea lovers
A gourmet and flowered tea : “Coquelicot gourmand” by Dammann Frères
“Coquelicot gourmand” is a wonderful perfumed black tea at once gourmet (biscuits and almond paste) and flowered (poppies, cornflowers and rose peonies). This tea is a delight!
We can purchase this tea on the official website : http://www.dammann.fr/fr/coquelicot-gourmand_1.html
Un amour de thé
A tea Time in gold and blue
So British !
Une théière de rêve
Sugar sweets with Mediterranean flavours
The French brand “Le clos de Laure” has assembled jam makers since 1998. These artisans create Provençal and Nice local gourmet products.
I tasted the “Délice d’amande à la fleur d’oranger” (almond delight with orange blossom) and the “Confit de rose de Grasse” (candied Grasse rose). It is delicious and very flavoured !
The official website : http://www.leclosdelaure.com/
I found these products at the “maison Castro” in Paris.
The French pastry allied to the Japanese taste at “Yamasaki” in Paris
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Yamasaki is a Franco-Japanese tea room and pastry shop in Paris. The French pastries are revisited with the Japanese spirit. The pastries are colorful, delicious and sophisticated. The tea comes from the tea house Betjeman and Barton. It is located … Continue reading
Marco Polo by Mariage Frères : A delicious fruity and flowery tea
Marco Polo is one of the most emblematic and mythical tea of the French tea house Mariage Frères. Marco Polo is a very tasty tea ; the fruit and floral flavours fit in perfectly.
We can purchase it on the official website: http://www.mariagefreres.com/FR/1-the_marco_polo.html