Tea Time at Park Hyatt Paris Vendôme

By Rim Ghossein La paren(the)se de Fabien Berteau (Meilleur Chef Pâtissier 2015 by  Gault & Millau), is an extraordinary experience. I want to insist on the name of the tea time « La Paren(the)se ». In French « la parenthese » means « the parenthesis »; so why the parentheses on « the »? Simply because Thé means tea. As I arrived to…

Angelina Tea Room: The ‘L’Africain’ Hot Chocolat & the ‘Mont Blanc’ Pastry by Stephanie SALIBA

On a rainy cold Saturday afternoon, I decided to visit Angelina’s, one of the most renowned tea houses in Paris located directly across from the Tuileries on rue de Rivoli in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. On my way there, the best old-fashioned hot chocolate in Paris called “L’Africain” at Angelina’s was on the top my…

Tea Time at Le Meurice

By Aida Chagoury, Rim Ghossein & Stephanie Saliba Who is Cédric Grolet?  Awarded as « Meilleur Chef Patissier 2016 », Grolet is a young, powerful and very creative Chef Patissier at the double Michelin Star restaurant Alain Ducasse, Le Dali at the Meurice palace. The 31 year old Chef merged his passion for baking with his skills…

Karamel

  By Aida Chagoury   Be careful caramel lovers, you might just found your favotire tea room in Paris !! Karamel, with the chef Nicolas Haelewyn, is a tea room as well as a boutique, located in the chic 7th arrondissement. Inside the boutique, you can find caramel spreads and chocolates, and in front of…

Profiterole Chérie

By Aida Chagoury Winner of ‘Meilleur Ouvrier de France’ in pastries, Philippe Urraca decided to open the first 100% profiteroles shop in Paris. You can find a wide variety of profiteroles, frozen or not. To guarantee the freshness of the products, the delicious pastries are cooked every 45 minutes, and prepared in front of you,…

La pâtisserie des rêves…

By Rim Ghossein Welcome to « La Pâtisserie des Rêves« (in English: The Bakery of Dreams) of Philippe Conticini. Sweet-toothers, continue reading. Others, close page (actually, scroll down you might love this pastry shop.) This pastry is the wonderland of all pastries in the world. It is just like a dream, but it’s real, everything is nice and…