Again in 2011, I grew to become associates with the writer of an exceptional Paris pastry weblog referred to as Paris Patisseries, a web site that opinions pastries from all the very best pastry retailers in Paris. Clearly proper up my alley.
When the weblog writer, Adam, was dwelling in Paris, he ate pastries daily. Each. Day. All day daily. Clearly that is my form of folks. He made my pastry consuming patterns look miniscule and insignificant, which I vastly appreciated. He’s certainly a human surprise of pastry consumption, and he was obsessive about the Jacques Genin pastries. And Jacques Genin goodies.
And naturally, Jacques Genin caramels.
Adam refers to Jacques merely as “The Grasp”.
Once in a while, Adam the pastry guru and I might meet up for lunch. And by lunch, I imply pastry lunch. It was supreme pastry overindulgence at a lunchtime hour.
Earlier than we met for the primary time, I attempted to make it clear that I used to be not a light-weight and could be getting a number of pastries, if not the complete pastry case, simply to let him know that I used to be in his consuming league and never one in every of these “Oh I couldn’t presumably! I’m watching my determine” form of woman. Oh, I’m watching my determine. Watching it get bigger and bigger by the day. Nay, by the hour.
Our first pastry lunch befell at Jacques Genin’s lovely Marais boutique.
The server’s eyes obtained larger and larger as Adam continued our pastry order: This…and this…one in every of these…and this-and-this-and-this…6 of those, and eight of these. Do folks usually solely get one or two?
I really feel sorry for these folks. With their tiny tables and their one pastry. I attempted to not cheer and roll round on the ground in a match of blissful pleasure as he saved itemizing what we’d be having.
We began off with a teapot stuffed with thick and creamy sizzling chocolate, adopted by the 6 pastries: chocolate éclair, caramel éclair, lemon tart, raspberry tart, vanilla flan, and St. Honoré, in addition to 6 caramels and 6 pâte de fruits.
Mushy pureed fruit in sweet type. To explain it as a jellied candied could be blasphemy as a result of they’re above such a time period.
We ended with what Jacques Genin is legendary for, his melt-in-your-mouth, holy-cow-how-is-this-possible, I-can-hardly-even-call-it-a-caramel-without-being-insulting-to-the-greatness-in-my-mouth caramels.
The primary time you might have a Jacques Genin caramel goes slightly one thing like this: Cherubs begin fluttering across the room enjoying flutes & harps, flowers bloom out of the ground, a symphony fills the air as a rainbow comes by means of the window, and a unicorn gallops down it to ask for those who’ve ever had one thing so pleasant, to which you reply, “No, in fact I haven’t”.
We every had a macadamia nut caramel, a ginger caramel, and a mango ardour fruit caramel.
You can not – I repeat – you can’t miss having a Jacques Genin caramel whereas in Paris. I like to recommend getting the “nature” and the mango ardour fruit at a naked minimal.
There was a degree within the pastry lunch the place the sugar excessive actually kicked in, and I simply felt form of dizzy and like I simply wished to begin guffawing for no purpose. Weeeee.
After consuming about 70 euros price of grasp pastry creations, we walked 45 minutes to the 6th (which I’m positive labored off the desk of pastries, liquid chocolate, caramels & sweet). The place does one go after consuming an enormous pastry lunch?
Health club? Weight Watchers? Park? Water retailer?
We stopped at one more pastry store, Un Dimanche à Paris (for dessert, duh). We had two thick pudding-like sizzling goodies, a strawberry tart, and two espressos.
Cleary Adam grew to become my favourite individual that yr. Anybody who suggests following an enormous pastry lunch with extra sizzling chocolate & pastry was certain to be a pal for all times.
Don’t miss the caramels. They’re price flying to Paris for. And get one to 6 pastries when you’re there, too.
Jacques Genin
Tackle: 133 Rue de Turenne, 75003 Paris, France
Telephone:+33 1 45 77 29 01
http://www.jacquesgenin.fr/fr/
Hours:
Monday: Closed
Tuesday-Sunday: 11am-7pm
Open till 8pm on Saturday.
