The Finest Baguette in Paris is within the seventeenth

The official greatest baguette in Paris is baked by 26-year-old Taieb Sahal, in response to the twenty seventh annual Meilleure Baguette de Paris competitors. The celebrated honor will carry renown to Sahal’s bakery, Saveurs de Pierre Demours – Maison Julien within the seventeenth arrondissement. In accordance with custom, Sahal has additionally earned the privilege of baking for French President Emmanuel Macron for a complete 12 months.

Sahal bested 209 different opponents on Thursday March 5. Jurors ranked every of the entries in response to cookedness, crumb, taste, scent, and aesthetic earlier than choosing Sahal’s as primary. Meg Zimbeck detailed her expertise as a member of this illustrious panel in 2013.

Sahal’s win is all of the extra shocking as he’s relative newcomer to the world of boulangerie. Whereas many French bakers start their apprenticeships at as younger as 16, Sahal, a former mover who emigrated from France to Tunisia in 2014, has been perfecting his baguette for less than 4 years.

“He’s a standout man,” Yassin Moudjari, accomplice on the Maison Julien bakeries, tells the Parisien. “He has drive, and he learns quick.”

Try this video to see Sahal at work.

Sahal isn’t the primary immigrant baker to win high prize within the annual contest, as Emily Monaco explored final 12 months for the BBC. He’s, nonetheless, the youngest-ever winner.

We’ve mapped The place to Discover the Finest Baguettes in Paris, which incorporates all the highest ten finishers since 2007. Under, discover a listing of this 12 months’s winners. Are you able to strive all of them?

Paris’ Prime Baguettes in 2020

1. Taieb SAHAL, Les Saveurs de Pierre Nemours. 13, rue Pierre Nemours (17^e).
2. Baptiste LEUCA, L’essentiel Mouffetard. 2, rue Mouffetard (5^e).
3. Liman TIGANI, Farine & O. 10, rue des Martyrs (9^e).
4. Laurent DEMONCY, Au 140. 140, rue de Belleville (20^e).
5. Anthony TEIXEIRA, Aux délices du Palais. 60, bd Brune (14^e).
6. Khemoussi MANSOUR, Aux délices de Glacière. 90, bd Auguste Blanqui (13^e).
7. Ahmed OUNISSI, Maison Legendre. 2, rue de la Butte aux Cailles (13^e).
8. Thierry GUYOT, Boulangerie Guyot. 28, rue Monge (5^e).
9. Giovanni BIANCO, Giovanni boulangerie contemporaine. 49, rue Chardon Lagache (16^e).
10. Jérôme LEPARQ, Maison Leparq. 6, rue de Lourmel (15^e).