Free Macarons on March 20
Here’s a sweet idea for those in Paris next Tuesday, March 20: grab a cookie and help to celebrate the Jour du Macaron. This annual fête for the quintessential French cookie will find Paris pastry chefs giving away free macarons and collecting donations for Autistes Sans Frontières. The shops that we’ve plotted on this map and listed below will all handing out complimentary macs. Two of them, Pierre Hermé and Jean-Paul Hévin, were just ranked among our all-time favorite Five Great for Macarons.
Near the Louvre:
- Jean-Paul Hévin – 231 rue St. Honoré, 75001
- Pierre Hermé – 4 rue Cambon, 75001
In the Marais:
- Dalloyau – 5 boulevard Beaumarchais, 75004
In the Latin Quarter:
- Sadaharu Aoki – 56 boulevard de Port Royal, 75005
In Saint-Germain:
- Jean-Paul Hévin – 3 rue Vavin, 75006
- Pierre Hermé – 72 rue Bonaparte, 75006
- Sadaharu Aoki – 35 rue de Vaugirard, 75006
- Dalloyau – 63 rue de Grenelle, 75007
Near the Champs-Elysées:
- Dalloyau – 101 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, 75008
In or near the big department stores:
- Dalloyau – 48-52 boulevard Haussmann, 75009
- Pierre Hermé – inside Galeries Lafayette at 40 boulevard Haussmann, 75009
- Sadaharu Aoki – inside Galeries Lafayette at 40 boulevard Haussmann, 75009
- Jean-Paul Hévin – inside Galeries Lafayette at 48 boulevard Haussmann, 75009
Near the Eiffel Tower & in the 15th
- Jean-Paul Hévin – 23 bis avenue de la Motte-Picquet, 75007
- Dalloyau – 69 rue de la Convention, 75015
- Pierre Hermé – 185 rue de Vaugirard, 75015
- Sadaharu Aoki – 25 rue Pérignon, 75015
- Laurent Duchêne – 238, rue de la Convention, 75015
Near the Butte-aux-Cailles:
- Laurent Duchêne – 2 rue Wurtz, 75013
In the 16th:
- Pierre Hermé – 58 avenue Paul Doumer, 75016
In Montmartre:
- Arnaud Lahrer – 53 Rue Caulaincourt, 75018
- Arnaud Lahrer – 57 rue Damrémont, 75018
- Christophe Roussel – 5 rue Tardieu, 75018
Related Macaron Reading
- Our editors’ selection of their favorite macarons in Paris – Five Great for Macarons
can’t believe i missed this! will be going next year
I made it to 15 of the shops! And already all my spoils have disappeared. Disappointed that Dalloyau knew nothing about it. Pierre Hermé staff at Publicis Drugstore were lovely and gave me a special Jour du Macaron poster, and loved discovering Lahrer’s caramel macaron – although dangerous as this is on my walk route to work… What a great way to promote a good cause, and to explore Paris.
Yippee! What a perfect way to celebrate my birthday! I knew I was born on a good day.