While in Paris, I sampled macarons, pastries and bread, crepes and casseroles, chocolates and ice-cream at as many patisseries, boulangeries, glaceries, chocolatiers, bistro’s and restaurants as I could fit into one week! I cannot wait to return to France to do it all over again!
Typical Parisian breakfast: baguette served with butter and preserves. And of course a cafe au lait too!
Torsade or Chocolate Twist – a pastry made from Croissants dough and filled with Chocolate and French pastry crème. My favorite by far!
Paris Brest – a choux pastry eclair filled with caramel cream and topped with toasted almonds.
A lamb casserole with seasonal vegetables (the best I had in my life!) and a dessert selection with coffee at Eric Kayser’s Bistro (Bercy Village, Paris).
Mushrooms stuffed with snails at Cafe Des Musees Bistro (Marais, Paris).
Chicken casserole with mushrooms and grenaille potatoes at Cafe Des Musees Bistro (Marais, Paris).
Pan-fried pork chop with roasted garlic and a side dish of potato au gratin at Cafe Des Musees Bistro (Marais, Paris).
Two different “shapes” of crepes or pancakes – gypsy ham and gruyere cheese take-away crepe (left) and a bacon, gruyere cheese and basil pesto crepe (right) at Creperie Suzette (Marais, Paris). The most popular sweet crepe is Crepe sucre beurre – pancake with butter and sugar.
Every Patisserie in Paris has a vast selection of pastries. It is almost impossible to leave with only one!
Three scoops of ice-cream – stracciatella, chocolate and nougat from Pozetto (Marais, Paris). They also have very good espresso. The queue outside a glacerie will be an indication of how good the ice-cream is!
