Address: 31 rue Lepic, 75018
Nearest transport: Abbesses (12), Blanche (2)
Hours: Open every day from 8:30am
Reservations: Reservations not accepted
Telephone: 01 84 79 23 40
Average price for lunch: Less than 10€
Style of cuisine: Baked goods, soups/salads/sandwiches
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Photo via L’Éclair de Génie Café’s Facebook
Address: 25 rue Chanzy, 75011
Nearest transport: Rue des Boulets (9), Charonne (9)
Hours: Open every day from 8am-7pm
Telephone: 01 55 87 21 40
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Paris Bouge (2016) “L’incroyable (inégalable même!) chocolat chaud aux notes biscuitées et pralinées, la tablette «grand cru» au lait et noisettes, l’entremet noisettes avec crème de noisettes, ganache gianduja nappé d’une couche chocolat/amande. Vous le sentez ce goût de l’enfance? Addictif, sucré et craquant, lacté et boisé, c’est l’obsession de Cyril Lignac.”
Address: 5 rue saint Bernard, 75011
Nearest transport: Faidherbe-Chaligny (8)
Hours: Closed Saturday & Sunday; Open Monday-Friday 8:45am-6pm
Reservations: Walk-ins Welcome
Telephone: 09 80 81 82 85
Average price for lunch: 20-39€
Style of cuisine: Baked goods, Middle Eastern, modern French
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Le Figaro (2016) “Officiellement, ce petit bout d’enseigne s’annonce comme un «coffee & bakery» (il y a de cela) si ce n’est qu’on y profite aussi de la sacrée touche d’un binôme cuistot – pâtissière boutiquant des assiettes intuitives, sans codes ni frontières hors celle du feeling.”
Christophe Vasseur’s breads are worth crossing town for, and many people do. Beyond the famous pain des amies pictured above, his viennoiseries are really something special. Croissants and pain au chocolat are reliable, but the various escargots, with flavors that change with the seasons, always present a delicious dilemma. On a recent visit, both the pistache chocolat and citron amande made it into my bike basket. The chausson aux pommes is filled with pure, not-to-sweet apple, and is something of a revelation for those used to run of the mill apple turnovers. Sample your sweets (or some of the savory breads sold from a basket near the register) at the picnic table outside, or on a bench at the banks of the nearby Canal.
Between the chocolate mustache-topped sable sandwich cookies that resemble an inside-out Oreo, the “f*cking dark” chocolate tarts topped off with chocolate skulls, or a lemon cream in between sesame madeleines disguised as a hamburger, this pastry shop can feel a bit too self-consciously cool. Thankfully, the sweets mostly deliver, and the tattooed and bearded eponymous pastry chef is present most days, and gracious. The deconstructed cheesecake inside of a Camembert box is an interesting take on a ubiquitous dessert, and the fresh fig tart with dragées rich with an intensely vanilla cream in a crisp, not-too-sweet shell. Pastries taken to-go are packaged in reusable plastic pencil cases adorably slapped with a robot sticker. In yet another departure from his peers, Laurent Favre-Mot will be offering a limited savory lunch and brunch in the back room of the pâtisserie.
— Catherine Down, October 2015
The giant madeleine door handle and the tiny seashell shaped sweets printed on the wallpaper are a good indicator of what lies within. The classic childhood treat is here elevated to a work of art in a variety of flavors. Delicately perfumed with crisp, buttery edges, the lemon glazed and salted caramel were particularly excellent. Madeleines were invented in Alsace where pastry chef Gilles Marchal hails from, and, while his are more expensive than most, they’re superlative within their category. It’s no surprise given that Marchal was the pastry chef for a number of years at Le Bristol, Plaza Athénée, and La Maison du Chocolat before striking out to open his own neighborhood bakery. The madeleines might be the stars of the show, but there are numerous other options including breakfast pastries, after school snacks, an ice cream cart in summer, and artfully presented tarts, such as a piquant lemon tart garnished with meringue cigarettes. There’s even occasionally a solid gluten-free option in the form of a “sacher cake” which resembles a chocolatey tiramisu. There’s no space to sit so plan on taking your pastries to-go and snacking on the steps of Sacre-Coeur.
— Catherine Down, September 2015
From the formica tables to the sweetly mismatched china, Chambelland looks like any other trendy café in the 11th with the notable exception that all of their food is gluten-free. The only thing “crunchy” at this sleek spot is its literally crunchy (and excellent) five grain bread. The bakery specializes in crusty rice & buckwheat breads using flour from their own mill in Provence. The delicately scented orange flower wand and focaccia are two excellent options for the gluten intolerant and tolerant alike. The small café serves hearty sandwiches (with vegetarian options), soups and salads, plus a selection of cakes, tarts, a brownie cookie hybrid, and even chouquettes for dessert.
This wedding cake bakery has a café in front, serving house made American style treats, and - whoa! - free refills on drip coffee.
Organic, slow-risen loaves baked in one of only four wood-burning ovens in Paris.
Baker Gontran Cherrier is making some of the most interesting breads in Paris, including a rye loaf with miso.
Sébastien and Sylvie Lohézic placed seventh in the 2010 Grand Prix de La Baguette.
The 2008 winner of the annual Grand Prix de la Baguette de la Ville de Paris.
The fourth place finisher in the 2012 Grand Prix de la Baguette.
Head baker Djibril Bodian won the 2010 Grand Prix de la Baguette.
Bazin is known for his breads, as well as his classic Paris-Brest.
A perpetual contender for the best baguette in Paris, Delmontel makes a wide variety of loaves, and gorgeous pastries, too.
Baker Alexandre Chavin's baguette finished 3rd in the 2012 Grand Prix de la Baguette.
Some cakes, some bread: This boulangerie/pâtisserie from Claire Damon makes some of the best in Paris.
"Gana" is founder Bernard Ganachaud, who won the "Meilleur Ouvrier de la France" title in 1979. This bakery was opened by his daughters in 1989.
This unassuming bakery and pastry shop offers Viennese specialties like sachertorte and strudel, but is also known for its extra-bitter chocolat chaud.
A fantastic bakery in the location formerly owned by another master, Jean-Luc Poujauran
This baker finished 2nd in the 2012 Grand Prix de la Baguette.
This charming patisserie near Parc Monceau is run by Miyuki Watanabe, who worked with Gerard Mulot.
Here you’ll find all of our bakery and pastry listings, organized by arrondissement. Some of them do only pastry, some do only bread, but most do both. Click on the name for more information.
Angelina
Eric Kayser 
Hugo & Victor
Jean-Paul Hévin
Julien
La Bague de Kenza
Pierre Hermé
Eric Kayser
Gaetan Romp
Régis Colin
Stohrer
Café Pouchkine
Gerard Mulot
Jacques Genin
La Bague de Kenza
Maison Plisson
Meert
Pain de Sucre
Poilane
Popelini
Profiterole Chérie
Tout Autour du Pain
An all-organic bakery, with multiple locations around Paris.
This upper Marais bakery, which changed its name in late 2015 from 134 RdT, has placed three times among the top ten winners of the Best Baguette in Paris competition. Baker Benjamin Turquier has also won first prize in the city’s competition to name the Best Croissant in Paris.
This traiteur/pâtisserie/boulangerie offers a visual feast of grand cakes and tarts, tiny and tempting petit-fours, chocolates, savory prepared foods, and baguettes to boot.
A stylish new pâtisserie and boulangerie from Benoît Castel serving sandwiches, salads, stuffed savory breads and more. The "bobo au rhum" is very aptly named for the neighborhood.