Queuing at Berthillon

Yesterday I was lucky to have to work the whole day in Paris (my regular office is in the suburb) and the weather being still incredibly nice, people were queuing for famous Berthillon's ice-creams on Saint Louis isle. 

Street life : the business man and Fauchon

Fauchon is a French gourmet food company that was founded in 1886 by Auguste Fauchon. The main stores are located on the Place de la Madeleine where I took this picture. Very expensive but they have wonderful food and patisseries !

Galette des Rois

This is a French tradition each January : la Galette des Rois. Absolutely a bag time for the diet but "que diable" !!! Inside the cake there is a little figurine and the one who got it becomes the king or queen (see crowns on the galettes).
If you want to know more about this tradition : see Wikipedia short and good description.

Saucissons

Outside holidays markets offer lots of food from France regions like these "saucissons" from south west of France.

La vendeuse de crèpes

Guess what kind of pancake I like ? One more "péché mignon" ...

Sunday patisserie

What best can you find for a sunday than my 3 favorite tarts : Chocolate, Lemon, Raspberry. And today's French phrase : péché mignon. If you translate is means "sweet sin" and it's used in a sens that it is someone's "weakness", but a nice weakness. So, yes, I must admit that tart is my "péché mignon".

Where is that Patisserie ?

There is a clue on the picture to find out where I took this picture ... Yes , it may look incredible to most of you but the giant American fast food restaurant understood what French like ...

Hungry ?

Monday Virginia posted one of my "Péché Mignon" with her Nutella crèpes (see Paris Through My Lens) and here is my other one ... patisseries ! One of the good thing in living in France ...

Theme day : open air market

The lady choosing her peaches at the open air market of the Rue Mouffetard.

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A good boulangerie

How to spot a good "Boulangerie Patisserie" ? Look at the line outside !

Cuisine traditionnelle

A traditional "brasserie parisienne"

Tasty

Ah !!: Ladurée's macarons !!!

Yiddish pastries

A very good Yiddish patisserie in the rue des Rossiers in le Marais quarter.

Happy Easter !

Care for a little cake for Easter ?

Péché mignon

One thing I did not tell about my little trip on the Champs Elysees for the Armistice day is that I could not help but stop at Ladurée and have some of these incredible macarons ... and by the way I wish you all good luck for this Friday 13th !

Back home

I'm back home from my week holidays in NYC. The Big Apple is still my second favourite city in the world. I don't know why I chose this picture today ... do you ?

Boulangerie for the weekend

No need to explain I guess ...

Saucissons

Those of you who live in France or have visited France know about "saucisson". There is no word to translate this food in English and French love it. I took this picture in Montmartre during this week-end fair where many street vendors where selling food. Most of the time the "saucisson" is made of pork but you can also find different meat like the "donkey saucisson" on the Corsica Island in the Mediteranean sea.

Dans le noir ?

"Dans le noir ?" (in the black) is this restaurant's name simply because you dine there in the total darkness. You are served by blind staff and from the moment you enter the place untill the moment you leave you are in dark rooms.

I never tried this restaurant but I have friends who did and said that it was a unique experience. You can either choose you meals or let them do it for you so you also have to guess what you're eating. If you want to know more about them, they have a website and since they also have a "Dans le noir ?" restaurant in London you can have information in English on the London pages.

My birthday

The theme week is ending with a cake from Lenotre, a very delicious French Patissier, to celebrate my birthday today may the 10th.