my paris den is strategically located in le marais, about two blocks away from pain de sucre, three-minute walk from the tres-chic le marais fashion district, and five-minute walk from ile saint-louis (or “ice-cream island” as i christened it, since it is where berthillon ice-cream is based). i’ve lived a many arrondisements in paris and do find 4th and 7th have [...]
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l’as du fallafel
Posted in bite, paris on July 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
best patisserie in paris
Posted in bite, paris on March 24, 2010 | 5 Comments »
having splurged and binged on pastries from different shops in the past few months, stuffing myself with pain au chocolat and paris brest as early as 8 in the morning, i am finally ready to name my best pastry shop in paris – actually it is not fair to name any as the best because each shop [...]
chocolatiers
Posted in bite, paris on February 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
everybody loves pastry chef (and student). what’s not to love about us? every day we go home and smell like croissants, fruit tarts, opera cakes, millefeuilles. but cuisine chefs? they go home and smell like fish, lambs, offals. yuck. last week we began making something that smell even more irresistible: chocolate. there are major differences [...]
