Best Paris Pastry Shops

Paris' Best Pastry Shops

Macarons at Pierre Herme in Paris.Photo by alphacityguides.

There's a million reasons to visit Paris, but none are more delicious than this—the 10 best pastry shops in Paris.

Stohrer

Store front at Stohrer. Photo by alphacityguides.

The oldest pâtisserie in Paris.

La Fougasse

Tart display at La Fougasse in Paris. Photo by alphacityguides.

While everything at this tiny bakery in the Third looks sumptuous, the lines of people are forming for the bread, and a slice of the tarte tropézienne (a French pastry creme stuffed between two layers of sinfully delicious puff pastry).

Gerard Mulot

Macaron case at Gerard Mulot in Paris. Photo by alphacityguides.

For the most beautiful and tasty fruit tarts in the city head to Gerard

Pierre Hermé

Macaron display at Pierre Hermé in Paris. Photo by alphacityguides.

One of the most famous pastry chefs in Paris, some even say the world.

Jean-Paul Hevin

Chocolate and pastry display at Jean-paul Hévin. Photo by alphacityguides.

Calling all chocolate fiends!  Hévin is just the place to crush that chocolate craving once and for all.

Fauchon

Mille-feuille at Fauchon in Paris. Photo by alphacityguides.

Paris' house of gastronomy has lost a little of it's luster over the past couple of decades, but there's few places in the world that sell the champagne and macaron lifestyle quite as well.

Hugo & Victor

Macarons at Hugo & Victor in Paris. Photo by alphacityguides.

Upmarket pastry shop with exotic tastes.

Ladurée

To say that Ladurée makes a good macaron is a BIT of an understatement, they're the inventors of it—literally! A must do in France. 

Dalloyau

Pastry counter at the Dalloyau tea salon. Photo by alphacityguides

Bakers to Louis XIV and inventor of the Opera cake, Dalloyau has been world renowned for over 300 years as some of the finest bakers in the world. Today they are most well known for their macaroons and perfect scrambled eggs.