Mostly known for its chic, designer boutiques and historical architecture, the Marais quarter of Paris also boasts a plethora of chocolate and confectionary shops, practically one on every corner.
It was hard to choose our favorites, because each one is as yummy as the next, but we’ve narrowed it down to three for now. Herewith, your guide to must-visit sweet shops in Le Marais...
Le Trois Chocolats
On a narrow side street, chocoholics and pastry lovers patiently queue for Emiko Sano and Sho Kimura’s gorgeous, sensational creations at Le Trois Chocolats. The name of the shop is derived from a fascinating family history. In the early 1900s Sano’s grandfather, who was working in a hotel, was given a taste of a chocolate truffle and was so enamored with the taste that he moved to Paris to study chocolate making. He returned to his home in Hakata, Japan, and opened a successful chocolate shop and his son followed in his footsteps, taking over the shop.
Emiko, the granddaughter, continued the family legacy and moved to Paris to study chocolate making, eventually opening Les Trois Chocolats in 2017. The beautifully appointed, jewel box shop offers milk and dark chocolates, beautifully embossed in colorful, graphic patterns, which are infused with Japanese flavors such as matcha, wasabi, mirin rice wine, Sakura and miso. Individual pastries resembling little works of art, include a Mochi tart with strawberries, a pavlova topped with fresh figs and a three, layer high cake with chocolate mousse, whipped cream and a chocolate and vanilla biscuit.
Matcha chocolate bars, chocolate covered, candied ginger rind, cube shaped croissants and a sinfully, rich hot chocolate round out the product selection.
Les Trois Chocolats
45 rue Saint Paul, 75004
Maison de la Roux
In 1980, in a small, second-generation confectionary shop in Quiberon, Brittany, Henri Le Roux makes candy making history by inventing salted butter caramels. Brittany salted butter — mixed with crushed almonds, walnuts and hazelnuts — is cooked on a stovetop in copper pots, and the combination becomes a worldwide sensation.
Renamed Maison de La Roux, today the brand has five shops in Paris. The newest addition in the Marais features a café serving Brittany-style pastries along with coffee and tea. Tins and boxes of salted butter caramels line the shelves and displays, and they have extended the flavor list to include chocolate, mango, green apple, matcha and raspberry. While visiting the shop, we were offered a taste of a traditional sable (butter cookie) covered in dark chocolate, and it was so swoon-worthy, we immediately purchased two boxes.
A range of chocolates are available and, for Christmas, they have an advent calendar filled with various chocolates.
Maison de La Roux
93 rue Saint Antoine, 75004
Maison Meert
Meert, a legendary café, sweet and chocolate shop, originating in Lille, France, from 1644, has two shops in Paris. The Marais outpost, Maison Meert, is a miniature of the one in Lille, stocking all their best-known products, in a decorative candy box of a shop.
Fancy glass jars filled with flavored marshmallows in pastel colors, and hard candies line the shelves along with decoratively boxed chocolates, caramels, pralines, dragees, sugar glazed chestnuts/marron glace, truffles and chocolate-covered marshmallow bears,
Their star confection is delicate gaufre’s (dried waffles) filled with Madagascar vanilla cream, packaged in an elegant, white box or sold individually.
In the month of January, they offer the Galette de Rois/Kings Cake, a flaky pastry cake filled with sweet almond paste. Traditionally, it’s served on January 6, and the inside of the cake has a miniature trinket. Whoever gets the trinket is crowned king or queen for the year.
Meert
16 rue Elzevir, 75003
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