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Food and Drink

Paris is as famous for food as it is for fashion. Gastro nomic chocolatiers Edwin and Arthur
treats include foie gras, cold meats from the charcuterie, at their two Edwart shops.
cheese and wine. Certain streets are so overflowing with Robert Linxe at La Maison du
food shops that you can put together a picnic for 20 in Chocolat is also constantly
inventing fresh, rich chocolates
no time: try the Rue Montorgueil (see p331). The Rue with mouth watering exotic
Rambuteau, running either side of the Pompidou Centre, ingredients. Richart boasts
has a marvellous row of fishmongers, cheese delicatessens beautifully presented and
and shops selling prepared foods. (See also Bars, Tearooms hugely expensive chocolates,
and Street Food pp309–11.) which are usually coated with
dark chocolate or liqueur-filled.
Debauve & Gallais are best
Bread and Cakes including pain au cèrèale known for their wonderful
There is a vast range of breads (multi-grain bread) and pain and delicious glacé chestnut
and pastries in France’s capital. d'amande (almond bread), treats (marron glacés).
The baguette is often translated the owner’s favourite.
as “French bread”; a bâtard is It is very important to
similar but thicker, while a ficelle remember that every Parisian Charcuterie and
Foie Gras
is thinner. A fougasse is a crusty, has a favourite neighbour hood
flat loaf made from baguette bakery, so when you are buying Charcuteries often sell cheese,
dough, often filled with onions, bread locally, simply choose the snails, truffles, smoked salmon,
cheese, herbs or spices. Since shop with the longest queues. caviar and wine as well as
most French bread contains Many of the Jewish cold meats. Fauchon has a
no fat, it goes stale quickly: the delicatessens have the best ryes good grocery, as does the
sooner you eat it, the better. and the only pumper nickels in department store Le Bon
The French would never eat town. One of the best known Marché (see p323). Hédiard
day-old bread so be sure to is Sacha Finkelsztajn. is a luxury shop similar to
be up in time to make it to Le Moulin de la Vierge uses Fauchon, and Maison de
the bakery for breakfast! a wood fire to bake organic la Truffe sells foie gras and
Croissants can be bought breads and rich pound cakes, cured salami sausages as
ordinaire or au beurre – the while Max Poilâne in the well as truffles. For Beluga
latter is flakier and more Montpar nasse area offers caviar, Georgian tea and
buttery. Pain au chocolat is a pains classiques, baguettes, Russian vodka, go to
chocolate-filled pastry eaten fougasses, cakes and pastries. Boutique Petrossian.
for breakfast and chausson aux Pâtisserie Secco sells a good Award-winning Gilles Verot
pommes is filled with apples. selection of filled baguettes, is known for his charcuterie,
There are also pear, plum and salads and excellent cakes. which is also available in
rhubarb variations. A pain aux Pierre Hermé is to cakes what London and New York.
raisins is a bread-like wheel Chanel is to fashion, while Maison Pou is a sparklingly
filled with custard and raisins. the macaroons from Ladurée clean and popular shop selling
Poilâne sells perhaps the only (see p311) are legendary. pâté en croute (pâté baked in
bread in Paris known by the Guy Savoy has entered the pastry), boudins (black and
name of its baker (the late boulangerie market to much white puddings), Lyonnais
Lionel, brother of Max), and his acclaim with his Goût de sausages, ham and foie gras.
hearty wholewheat bread is Brioche shop, specializing in Just off the Champs-Elysées,
tremendously popular, with the eponymous light sweet roll. Vignon has superb foie gras
freshly baked loaves being and Lyonnais sausages as well
jetted around the world to Chocolate as popular prepared foods.
satisfy the cravings of certain Together with truffles and
film stars. There are always big Like all food in France, chocolate caviar, foie gras is the ultimate
queues at the weekend and is to be savoured. Dalloyau in gourmet food, from cheaper
around 4pm when a fresh makes all types of chocolate paté de foie gras to the more
batch comes out of the oven. and is not too expensive (it’s expensive whole liver itself.
Many think Comptoir Gana also known for its pâtisserie and Though most specialist food
bakes the best bread in Paris. cold meats). Fauchon is world shops sell foie gras, you can
Thirty different kinds, including famous for its luxury food be sure of quality at Comtesse
ingredients such as walnuts products. Its chocolates are du Barry, which has six outlets
and fruit, are made in old- excellent, as is the pâtisserie. in Paris. Divay is relatively
fashioned ovens. Lenôtre makes classic truffles inexpensive and will ship
Maison Kayser, a high-end and pralines. For something a overseas. Comptoir de la
chain bakery, produces a variety little different, try the surprising Gastronomie has a range
of artisan breads and baguettes confections made by young of excellent foie gras.

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