From baguettes to boules, Paris is heaven for bread lovers. Click and zoom on this map to find a bakery near you, or one worth crossing town for.
Where can you score a great baguette in Paris? We asked our contributing advisors – a group of Paris-based food writers – to name five favorite places for a baguette fix. The overall favorite: Eric Kayser.
Here’s a collection of our favorite Paris bakeries, organized by arrondissement. Click on the name to read more, including which rave reviews and professional awards the bakery has won, including the awards for the 2011 Best Baguette in Paris competition.
75001 Eric Kayser – 33 rue Danielle Casanova Julien – [...]
Gerard Mulot offers a visual feast of grand cakes and tarts, tiny and tempting petit-fours, chocolates worthy of their own boutique, a case of savory prepared foods, and good baguettes to boot. One stop shopping, à la Parisienne.
For the 4th year in a row (see past results below), a bakery in Montmartre has taken home the top prize. Congratulations to Pascal Barillon of Au Levain d’Antan! We’ll report on the remaining top 10 results as they are revealed later tonight. You can click on any of the links to see these bakeries on our Google map, and you can visit Our Guide to Paris Bakeries for practical information and reviews.
Want to taste the best baguette in Paris (2011) for yourself? Here’s the practical information you need to sample Pascal Barillon’s prize-winning baguette
This wildly creative pastry shop is known for, among other things, a line of multicolored marshmallows, square-shaped tarts, use of unusual flavors (there might be rosemary sticking out of your gateau), and a baba that receives its dose of rum from a hypodermic needle. There’s bread, too, if you’re just looking for a baguette.
Pascal Guerreau now runs this longstanding bakery, pastry, and chocolate shop.
Make a pot of mint tea or strong black coffee and bite into these fragrant, sticky-sweet Algerian pastries.
The “bread” part of Bread & Roses is a lovely range of organic loaves. The rest of it is an English-accented lunch spot and tea salon featuring fresh tarts (savory and sweet), sandwiches, and lively salads, plus flaky scones, serious cheesecake, and a few grocery items, including Marmite. What you won’t find are any bargains.
Our illustrious group of contributing advisors and the judges of Grand Prix de la Baguette de Tradition Française de la Ville de Paris agree that Gosselin produces one of the best baguettes in Paris (#2 and #5 respectively). The pastries are gorgeous, too.
Across the street from the tree-filled Square Trousseau, Fabrice Le Bourdat makes some of the most beautiful desserts in Paris. Morning pastries are killer, too, and can be enjoyed with espresso on the sunny terrace. Don’t miss the now legendary iced madeleines.
“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.
The baguette here finished 10th in the 2011 Grand Prix de la Baguette.
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