Thereโs no shortage of chocolate shops in Paris. Many of them are concentrated in areas like the Marais or Left Bank, which are swankier places set up shop, but offer easy access. So in what are called the โdouble-digitโ arrondissements, youโll find more quirky places, and youโll never know what you might come across if you wander around them. Having dinner one night at Churrasqueiraโฆ
Paris is known for its classical ice cream shops, as well as a few Italian-style gelaterias, but until a few years ago, there werenโt any young people forging out on their own, churning up more contemporary flavors of ice cream and sorbet for modern palates. Donโt get me wrong, I love glace au chocolat and glace au caramel beurre salรฉ, but Iโm no fuddy-duddy, andโฆ
From the outside, Compagnie Gรฉnรฉrale de Biscuiterie is a low-slung place, resembling a workshop of some sort, rather than a pรขtisserie, located on the way up to Sacrรฉ Cลur, in Montmartre. I made the trek up there to check it out because I was interested in the one thing the low-key place makes: cookies. The French use the word โcookiesโ primarily to refer to chocolateโฆ
UPDATE: Panifica has closed and a new bakery (thatโs good!) has opened in its place. I used to cross Paris to buy a loaf of bread. That was when I was more of a dรฉbutant and kept a list of bakeries that I wanted to visit, and Iโd make it a point to check off as many as I could, to try their bread. Butโฆ
The worst thing about the pรขtisserie of Arnaud Larher is that itโs too dang far away from where I live. Located on the northern fringes of Montmarte, it takes me 3 different mรฉtros to get there, and even then, itโs a hike from the mรฉtro station (which is buried very, very deep underground, since that quartier of Paris is mostly soft limestone, aka plaster ofโฆ
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