Paris pastry and chocolate tour:
Taste Paris from boulangerie to bean-to-bar
Destination
Paris, France
Duration
2.5 hours
Tour size
Max 12
Language
English
Overview
Stroll the covered passages of the Right Bank, where Paris does its sweetest work: pain au chocolat, single-origin chocolate, salted butter caramel, and the city's best macarons. This Paris pastry tour walks you through six sweet stops in the company of someone who knows which bakery the neighborhood actually queues for.
- •Bite into a pain au chocolat with layers thin enough to shatter, from one of the city's most celebrated boulangeries
- •Wander three of Paris's 19th-century covered passages, where bookshops and a century-old doll's hospital still trade beneath glass roofs
- •Watch single-origin cacao become chocolate at a small bean-to-bar atelier in the heart of the city
- •Pair a salted butter caramel crêpe with crisp Normandy cider, the way they do it in Brittany
- •Finish on a seasonal macaron from a young pâtissier rewriting the classic
What's included
- 6 tastings across pâtisseries, a chocolatier, and a crêperie
- 1 glass of Normandy cider
- A local guide
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What to expect
The boulangerie: where a pain au chocolat earns its reputation
You'll start at a family-run boulangerie whose pain au chocolat has been recognized among the very best in Paris. The pastry comes warm, with layers thin enough to shatter and a chocolate batonnet that holds its shape until the second bite. Your guide will explain what separates a great laminated pastry from a serviceable one, and you'll never look at a croissant case the same way again.
The tea salon: a fraisier under wrought iron and glass
Next, a small tea salon tucked inside one of Paris's covered arcades, with porcelain plates and a wrought-iron ceiling overhead. You'll order a seasonal homemade cake, most likely a fraisier in summer or a Mont Blanc in autumn. Built in the early 1800s as a refuge from the muddy, carriage-clogged streets, these passages were Paris's first commercial walkways and the blueprint for every shopping street that followed.
"The pain au chocolat is the test. If a Parisian bakery gets that one right, they get everything else right too."
Juan,
WalksDevour Paris guide
"The passages were the first shopping malls in the world. Most visitors walk straight past them."
Marie,
WalksDevour Paris guide
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