Tag: Pastries

  • Pastries & stuff

    Pastries & stuff

    Are you gourmand? To the point that you would get out of your way to enjoy that special taste you’re after? That’s the question coming with this post. We already mentioned some good pastry store just around the corner, like on the Rue Montorgueil, or Rue du Nil. But some of us are willing to…


  • Rue Montorgueil – 2

    Rue Montorgueil – 2

    The neighborhood is still called “Les Halles”, meaning the huge food market which has been feeding Paris until 1971. Because of this longstanding history (The Pinault Museum for instance is in fact the last conversion of the grain market built in the 1780s), there are many food-related stores in the area. Those who survived the…


  • Rue du Nil

    Rue du Nil

    When you lived by the rue Montorgueil for nearly two decades, as far as food stores are concerned, one gets hard to impress. However, when Chef Gregory Marchand launched his now famous Frenchie restaurant, he moved the neighborhood’s food center of gravity. And contrary to the river it is named after, it’s a very short…


  • Rue Montorgueil – 1

    Rue Montorgueil – 1

    The neighborhood is still called “Les Halles”, meaning the huge food market which has been feeding Paris until 1971. Because of this longstanding history (The Pinault Museum for instance is in fact the last conversion of the grain market built in the 1780s), there are many food-related stores in the area. Those who survived the…