If you follow my blog, you must know that I am a foodie. This wasn’t always the case, as my parents must still vividly remember a time, admittedly quite a while ago, when every meal was a battle to make me swallow the food necessary for my health… Today, it is quite the opposite; I am a foodie and a connoisseur of fine dining, and ultimately, there are very few things I don’t eat. There are foods I don’t like, but I always try to taste them before being categorical about a product (the proof: I finally ate oysters following my short stay in Saint Jean de Monts).
Since I am a naughty foodie and I love sweets, today I’m offering you a small guide to my favorite pastry shops, gathered here and there, in Paris and around the capital. Sometimes these addresses are also bakeries, but they always offer a selection of dessert and pastry creations. Plus, I regularly update this article with my new discoveries!
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My Parisian pastry shops
Pépite Boulangerie
This pastry-bakery is located on Boulevard Voltaire in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, now with 2 different locations. The signature creation of pastry chef Alice Lin is an Egg Tart (which we unfortunately didn’t have the chance to taste): Pépite, available in three flavors: Vanilla, Matcha, and Black Sesame. And Pépite also offers, of course, very beautiful and delicious timeless pastries available year-round, as well as seasonal creations. Its newest item is a Mochi-Cookie, quite surprising and very good!
We tasted the sweet treats: the chocolate mochi-cookie; the brownie (super moist and melt-in-the-mouth); the apple dill turnover; the pistachio raisin roll; the blueberry tart; the cookie.
4 new items for autumn 2023: the Vanilla dome; the fig tartlet; the Chocolate Hazelnut; the matcha flan.
We tasted the savory items: the Serrano ham focaccia; the salmon-filled croissant; the hot dog.
Tested in 2023
Pépite Boulangerie
195 Boulevard Voltaire, 75011 Paris
23 Boulevard Voltaire, 75011 Paris
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La Mauvaise Herbe
This 100% plant-based bakery-pastry shop, located in the 17th arrondissement and opened in September 2024, belongs to an adorable couple: baker Maxime Raïmi and his partner, pastry chef Florence Neveux. They are truly committed to promoting a more sustainable diet. Their address, La Mauvaise Herbe (a tribute to the song of the same name by Brassens), offers gourmet products where flavor remains king and where everything is homemade, following the seasons. They also favor ingredients from organic farming and, if possible, locally sourced. We really loved their cakes (especially a banana one, the name of which I can’t recall), which are delicious.
Tested in 2026 - Invitation
La Mauvaise Herbe
103 avenue de Saint-Ouen 75017 Paris
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Pâtisserie de Saison
Pâtisserie de Saison is one of the institutions of Asian pastry in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. The shop offers many specialties, but on the sweet side, it is particularly known for large cakes made with sponge cake and fruit (you can choose your flavor like mango, pineapple, or even chocolate and many others at the time of ordering). The address offers taro rolls, matcha rolls, or even durian for the more adventurous!
Tested in 2023
Pâtisserie de Saison
65 Avenue d’Ivry, 75013 Paris
Price of cakes: €33 for 4 people / €38 for 6 people / €48 for 8 people
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Les Belles envies
This Parisian pastry shop offers cakes, chocolates, and cookies with a low sugar content. They use ancient, fiber-rich flours with a low glycemic index, such as lupin flour, coconut flour, as well as T80 semi-whole wheat flour. Their creations have a glycemic index below 30, which represents a reduction of approximately 60% compared to an ordinary pastry. They also hold an igc® certification: Controlled Glycemic Index.
I have tested several of their cakes, chocolates, etc., and I must say I am quite a fan of their creations because they are less sugary than most pastries, yet they remain very delicious.
Tested in 2022 and 2023
Les Belles Envies
3 Rue Monge, 75005 Paris
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La Meringaie
I really like this brand specializing in meringue, which I’ve known for years and which has several locations in Paris. It seems so simple, but the meringue from La Meringaie is crispy on the outside and melts in the mouth on the inside, and that changes everything! The store offers many variations around this delicious meringue base, inspired by the Pavlova with flavored whipped creams and fresh seasonal fruits. Above all, La Meringaie offers desserts of incomparable lightness.
Tested in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022
La Meringaie
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Pâtisserie Les Enfants Gâtés
The anti-crisis indulgence signed “Les Enfants Gâtés” is imagined by Benoit Soudan, head of this pastry shop opened since 1994 in the 17th arrondissement of Paris and since 2013 in Levallois-Perret. At first glance, nothing distinguishes this shop from another, but you must push open the door on Rue Cardinet to discover the delicious cakes of this pastry shop (notably one of the specialties, the What Else?), which also has the distinction of having a small tea room space, very pleasant to sit down and take the time to enjoy your treat.
It is even said that Christophe Michalak finds the best flans in Paris there… But we will tell you more about that very soon in a dedicated article, as we are currently looking for the best flans in the capital with our favorite photographer…
Tested in 2015
Pâtisserie Les Enfants Gâtés
7 rue Cardinet 75017 Parisopen Tuesday to Saturday from 3:30 PM to 7:30 PM
6, place Henri Barbusse 92300 Levallois-Perret
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Delicesweet
Delicesweet is at once a grocery store, a pastry shop, a chocolatier, an ice cream parlor, a milkshake bar… in short, a shop that offers its customers the possibility to treat themselves with natural products without sugar, without aspartame, and without gluten. You can find cookies, chocolate, jams, nougat, chocolate mousse, candies, homemade pastries (cheesecake, financiers, chocolate fondant), and all these products are obviously without sugar.
Tested in 2015
Delicesweet
54 avenue de la Bourdonnais 75007 Paris
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La Pâtisserie des Rêves
This must-visit gourmet brand, which I have already told you about several times, notably in a full article, has several locations in Paris. Some time ago, I went to discover the spot that the wonderful Pâtisserie des Rêves opened on the 3rd floor of BHV Marais. It is therefore a wonderful opportunity to take a gourmet break while shopping, and I think that for my part, this will actually give me even more reasons to take a little tour at BHV when I am in the neighborhood…
It is also the ideal place to enjoy a very good hot chocolate (a quite rare commodity in the capital that would deserve an article all to itself), and for cocoa lovers, there is even a grand cru hot chocolate to be savored preferably without sugar, to taste all its flavors.
Absolute must-try:
- the apple turnover (perhaps the best I have ever eaten, a killer, really!)
- the madeleines baked to the minute before being served at the table
- the financiers
- the Paris-Brest (the house specialty)
Tested in 2015
Pâtisserie des Rêves
3rd floor of BHV Marais
36 Rue de la Verrerie, 75004 Paris
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Pâtisserie Eugène (permanently closed)
Pâtisserie Eugène, opened since December 2014, is a pastry shop of a slightly different kind from what one usually finds in this type of business. Indeed, its particularity is that it is perfectly adapted to the issues of gourmets with diabetes, since Christophe Touchet, the originator of the project, is himself a type 1 diabetic. The assets of his pastries? They reduce the glycemic spike so dreaded at mealtime, they satisfy the gourmet craving, the tendency to snack, and they prolong the sensation of satiety for diabetics. Eugène’s creed is to revisit classic desserts with ingredients whose sugar content is reduced by at least 50% and which have an additional fiber intake of 70%.
The technical feat of pastry chef and chocolatier Luc Baudin is to adapt his recipes to the constraints of diabetic subjects by playing on the alchemy of the components. Many tests and trials were necessary to achieve the expected results. Moreover, the nutritional values will soon be calculated and indicated for each of the products sold in the pastry shop, which will allow better planning of one’s meal. Eugène also proposes a complete savory and sweet offer: as for the bakery, it is stone-ground T80 flour that is used in the products; the pastries are sweetened differently, with agave syrup; and the chocolates are made from Valrhona chocolate, without added sugar, to which is associated a selection of grand cru cocoas.
Result: it is the perfect address for all those who have issues induced by sugar (diabetes, overweight).
To test: the magnificent and succulent lemon tart, the Paris-Brest, the super crispy baguette, the Grand Choc, the matcha tea and raspberry roll, …
Tested in 2015
Pâtisserie Eugène
11, rue Guillaume Tell, 75017 Paris
Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday (7:30 AM – 8:00 PM) – Sunday (9:00 AM – 2:00 PM)
My pastries around Paris
A la Reine Astrid, Ville d’Avray
In 2015, I went for a little walk in the very cute little Ville-d’Avray in the Hauts-de-Seine department (yes, I know, I have a fascinating life). I went there to discover the charming shop and tea room, A La Reine Astrid. The place is quite far from Paris, I admit, but it is worth the detour if you live in the area or if you are passing through Ville-d’Avray for one reason or another… I therefore advise you to stop for a little tea with a cake, a macaron, or just to enjoy their very high-quality homemade chocolates. Special mention for the pralines (which are always my little weak point) and which are truly succulent.
To taste: the coconut praline, the fleur de sel praline, the macarons, the homemade hot chocolate,…
The good tip: for the inhabitants of Ville-d’Avray, the shop is also a reseller of Dammann Frères tea (which is a very good tea house if you are a fan).
To come: take line L from St Lazare or La Défense to Sèvres Ville d’Avray, and then the shop is less than a 10-minute walk from the station; by letting yourself be guided by your GPS, you will pass behind the town center, through small paths straddling a very beautiful residential area… Honestly, with a bit of sun, I had the impression of having gone very far from Paris, and this kind of feeling often does you good. There are also 4 other shops of this brand in the Paris region.
Tested in 2015
Chocolaterie à la Reine Astrid
38 rue de saint Cloud 92410 Ville d’Avray
70 avenue de La Grande Armée 75017 Paris
10 rue Pierre Wacquant 92190 Meudon
76 avenue Général Leclerc 78220 Viroflay
92 boulevard A. Briand 91600 Savigny sur Orge
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Ze Gato
Ze Gato, it’s an adventure started in April 2015 by 4 gourmet forty-somethings, with boundless energy, whose stated ambition is none other than “to please” (that’s good, since I love to be pleased!). The brand therefore has the ambition to become “a must in pastry,” with the collaboration of Eric Hubert, the former pastry chef of the Jean-Georges group, having, among other things, created pastries at the restaurant “Le Market” in Paris. The Ze Gato trademark is to marry the values of pastry, the taste for the authentic, the simple, and the good, while projecting their new vision of gourmandise.
The alchemy born from this creative collaboration and solid know-how has already been delighting demanding palates for several months, including mine, of course… Prepared every morning (a will to which the creators strongly adhere to stand out in the world of pastry), Ze Gato products are of high quality and, above all, they are very fresh!
Not to be missed:
- Ze Opera: Strawberry-rhubarb, Banana-passion fruit, Mocha, Matcha tea
- Ze Cheesecake: Speculoos, Raspberry-lychee, Mango-passion fruit, Yuzu
- Ze Millecrêpes: Bourbon vanilla, Chocolate, Pistachio (one of the house specialties and for me their best-gato to be tested urgently)
- Ze Meringué: Pistachio, Chocolate, Speculoos, Raspberry, Salted Butter Caramel
For now, three shops exist:
One in Neuilly-sur-Seine, one in Issy-Les-Moulineaux, which also includes the brand’s laboratory, and since September 2014, another shop has opened in Paris, within the famous Beaugrenelle shopping center, in the middle of major ready-to-wear brands, to enjoy a gourmet moment while shopping.
Tested in 2015
Ze Gato
3 Ze Gato shops:
Neuilly-sur-Seine / 14 Rue Ernest Deloison 92200 Neuilly sur Seine
Issy-les-Moulineaux / 28 Avenue du Bas-Meudon 92130 Issy Les
MoulineauxCentre commercial Beaugrenelle Magnetic B / 12 Rue Linois 75015 Paris
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And you, what are your favorite pastry addresses?
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