Cafés & Pastry Shops — Paris
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Angelina
A Belle Époque tea room on rue de Rivoli, opened in 1903, famous across Paris for its thick "Chocolat Africain" hot chocolate and chestnut-cream Mont-Blanc pastry.
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Café de Flore
A Saint-Germain-des-Prés institution opened around 1887, the postwar haunt of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, who reportedly wrote at its tables to escape unheated apartments.
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Du Pain et des Idées
A canal-district bakery in a preserved 1889 shopfront, run by former fashion-industry baker Christophe Vasseur, celebrated for its pistachio-chocolate escargot and pain des amis loaf.
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Fromagerie Barthélemy
A rue de Grenelle cheese shop that supplied the Élysée Palace under Nicole Barthélemy, stocking more than 200 mostly raw-milk cheeses aged in its own cellar beneath the Left Bank street.
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Ladurée
A pâtisserie founded in 1862 whose staff is credited with inventing the modern double-decker macaron in the 1930s, its opulent Champs-Élysées salon serving them alongside tea and light meals.
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Les Deux Magots
Café de Flore's next-door rival on Place Saint-Germain-des-Prés, named for two carved Chinese figures still watching over the room, and a magnet for writers from Hemingway to Camus.
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Pierre Hermé
The Saint-Germain flagship of the pastry chef nicknamed the "Picasso of Pastry," known for architecturally precise macarons in flavours like Ispahan (rose, lychee, raspberry).
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Poilâne
The Left Bank bakery founded in 1932 by Pierre Poilâne, still wood-fired and hand-shaped, whose sourdough "miche" loaf, stamped with a P, is exported and imitated worldwide.