Beneath you’ll discover our strategies for the place to choose up cheese, sweets, wine and different picnic provisions earlier than you pick a sunny bench within the Luxembourg Gardens.
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Solids
Cheese
- Fromagerie Sanders – A pleasant, family-run fromagerie within the coated Marché Saint Germain.
- Laurent Dubois – Fromager Laurent Dubois is a Meilleur Ouvrier de France.
Charcuterie
- Gilles Verot – Pâtes, terrines, saucisson, jambon…get all the very best meaty bits from this beloved charcutier.
Bread
- Poilâne – One of many nice bakeries of Paris, and never a baguette to be discovered. The marginally bitter miche may be ordered by the tranche (slice) and makes a superb edible plate.
- Thierry Renard – Award-winning baker Thierry Renard arrange store on rue de Cherche Midi in early 2012.
Sandwiches
- Cosi – The sandwiches at this distinctive store (it’s not the American sandwich chain) are made with a focaccia-like bread, proper from the oven, with contemporary fillings and loads of vegetarian selections. A number of salads for takeaway as nicely. Open daily.
Sweets
- Gérard Mulot – This traiteur/pâtisserie/boulangerie provides a visible feast of grand desserts and tarts, tiny and tempting petit-fours, candies, savory ready meals, and baguettes in addition.
- Pierre Hermé – Be a part of the hushed lots who queue worship on the altar of pastry demigod Pierre Hermé. Tarts, desserts, candies, ice cream and, after all, macarons.
- Patrick Roger – The clear traces of Roger’s store exhibit his daring type and playful shows. Modern flavors like lemongrass and Sichuan peppercorn combine with traditional pralines, darkish ganaches, and caramels. A Meilleur Ouvrier de France.
- Henri Le Roux – Grasp chocolatier and “caramelier” Henri Le Roux has simply opened up a store in Paris. Salted butter caramel followers, rejoice.
- Sadaharu Aoki – Grasp pâtissier Sadaharu Aoki combines French strategies and Japanese flavors.
- Jean-Paul Hévin – Whether or not you go for a pastry or a field of good bonbons and truffles, Jean-Paul Hévin is a should for any chocolate lover.
- Franck Kestener – This Lorraine-based chocolatier (a Meilleur Ouvrier de France) opened a boutique in Paris in late 2010.
- Dalloyau – This historic traiteur and pâtisserie invented the oft-imitated Opera Cake.
The whole lot
- La Grande Épicerie – The meals corridor of division retailer Le Bon Marché, providing contemporary ready meals, lovely bottles, and high-quality groceries for stylish one-stop procuring.
- Bread & Roses – An English-accented bakery, lunch spot and tea salon that includes contemporary tarts (savory and candy), sandwiches, and full of life salads, plus flaky scones, severe cheesecake, and some grocery objects.
Liquids
- La Dernière Goutte – Terroir-driven, estate-bottled, natural and biodynamic wines from small producers, are the specialty at this beloved store, run by Juan Sanchez.
- Bacchus et Ariane – You’ll discover pure and biodynamic wines from small producers, and a pleasant collection of growers Champagnes at this wine store within the coated Marché Saint Germain, the place you can even drink on the spot.
- Les Papilles – It’s possible you’ll by no means make it to your picnic when you see the meals served at this wine bar/epicerie/restaurant. However in the event you can tear your self away, snag a bottle of wine from the cabinets and perhaps some cured meats from the delicatessen.
- Caves du Panthéon – Practically 100 years outdated, this store provides stacks and stacks of estate-bottled wines from all areas of France.
- Le Vin en Tête – This user-friendly store, open daily, options principally natural and pure wines, in addition to a collection of massive, traditional names.
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