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Showing posts with label chocolatiers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chocolatiers. Show all posts
Monday, April 5, 2010
To be this kid in this candy shop...
By lucky chance I took the #89 bus an extra stop enroute to Bon Marche...
And came face à face with just 2-week old, new chocolatier-patisserie, Hugo & Victor at 40 Boulevard Raspail and rue Chomel, 75007
The name is a literary play on pastry chef's name, Hugues Pouget, formerly of Guy Savoy. There is a bookish and rare jewel feel to this store's classy concept.
The chocolates are sold in a carnet/Molekine-like box(13 euros)
French Girl fell in love as did her tea party pals - a perfect gift for hard-to-please Frenchies. The chocolates were divine she reported.
Every tiny detail is thought out and designed to be user-friendly. Very informing of the exotic ingredients and flavors...
The back wall display tells you which 5 seasonal flavours are featured-lychee, pineapple, combava, blood orange, hazelnutPlus 3 classic year-round flavors - vanilla, chocolate, caramel.
The display base offers wines reccommended by sommelier Frederic Beal to accompany the chocolates and pastries.
I returned for a tasting and to take pictures...
Impossible to choose - everything looked miam-miam...
Exquisite no?
Enfin I decided on a combava (of kaffir lime, according to Dorie Greenspan, who also just discovered H&V) verrine with tapioca - exotic, tart with a hint of sweet..
Bien sur there are macarons!
Even at night, the drama of Hugo & Victor makes you want to come back and visit.BONJOUR HUGO & VICTOR!!
40 boulevard Raspail 75007
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Remember I told you about PB reader, Susanne, who lives in the 7th arrondissement..?
And the glorious views of the Eiffel Tower outside her window..?
Well yesterday I finally did it. I booked my March trip to Paris. And I'll be staying in Susanne's pied-a-terre. This gorgeous hunk of quiche we ate comes from the boulangerie right downstairs by the way.
Susanne has moved on to a tiny village in Vermont (what!?).Yes it's true. I wonder if she's taken her wonderful blue and white treasures with her? Or will I get a chance to paint them...?
Susanne's place is a flea market shoppers dream, in case you didn't already notice....
Shhhhhh!
I took my camera into the loo, so I could show you all the amazing treasures lurking everywhere.
Did I mention that Susanne's place is on the 6th floor?I'm working out as I write this, prepping for climbing those stairs
I expect to collapse regularly into this cafe nearby...
Or this classic bistro - La Fontaine de Mars129, rue St-Dominique
If I get homesick (never happens) there's the cafe Tribecca on rue Cler...
The fleamarket was closing up by the time I got to it but it looked terrific! I have to admit I have never been to rue Cler before.Dommage :(
(ext.3)For some reason I can't explain, I always procrastiinate like crazy booking my Air France ticket. And of course I always lose the AirFrance telephone number so I'm putting it here for next time.
I did a little research and discovered there are like a gazillion chocolatiers in the immediate vicinity of the appartment!WOWZA!
A. Michel Chaudun -149, Rue Université, 75007
B. Le Fleuriste du Chocolat -49, Avenue La Bourdonnais, 75007 C. SAS Chocolaterie De Puyricard - 27, Avenue Rapp, 75007
D. Les Petites Chocolatières - 20, Rue Cler, 75007
J. De Neuville SA - 24, Rue Marbeuf, 75008
I know it's unseemly to say this but I cannot resist,
HOLY CRAP!!!!
I know it's unseemly to say this but I cannot resist,
HOLY CRAP!!!!
It's a very good thing I will have those millions of stairs to walk daily... If YOU have any suggestions of stuff I should do in the 7th do tell S.V.P.!~
BONNE REVE!
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