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The 100 Best Bakeries in France

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The best bakeries in France, according to the experts: The 50, The Infatuation, and Le Fooding have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Pleincœur comes out on top, and the good stuff runs deepest in Paris.

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Atelier P1 Paris and Sain Boulangerie hold the next two places. Le Fooding shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with The Infatuation next.

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  1. Pleincœur is a pâtisserie that displays its cakes under glass cloches on a marble tower, like a jeweler with a sugar problem. The ordering is refreshingly normal, though: join the brisk queue, point, pay. Tables overlook the square at no markup, and the Paris-Brest comes with a hazelnut cream pile that makes restraint feel like a character flaw. The pastry chef has won The World's Best Pastry Chef Award.


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    64 Rue des Batignolles, 75017 Paris, France · Paris
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    Closed now, opens 8 AM

    Wednesday 8 AM–8 PM

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  2. This is a bakery on the quiet side of Montmartre that doesn't sell baguettes, which in Paris is roughly like opening a steakhouse with no beef. The loaves are dense rye and seeded wheat, each labeled with where the flour came from, for the kind of person who reads labels. The sandwich is turmeric ciabatta with kimchi tuna rillettes, and you can eat it in the little square across the street.


  3. Sain is an organic bakery near the Canal Saint-Martin where everything is leavened with sourdough, so nothing here is in a hurry, including you. The apple chausson holds a whole skin-on apple half under a caramelized crust, and the croissant leans country cousin, dense and tangy with a little honey. A few tables let you eat beside the pastry case, or you can carry it ten paces to the water.



  4. Rank 5. Bontemps

    Patisserie

    Bontemps is a Marais pâtisserie with a hidden tea salon in back, where velour chairs and servers in gauzy floral skirts bring the day's tarts and entremets out on a silver platter. The sablé base has a hint of fleur de sel and a generous hand with the butter. The salon marks up everything, so the lemon cake is smarter bought from the takeaway counter out front and eaten on a bench like a person with a plan.


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    57 Rue de Bretagne, 75003 Paris, France · Paris
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    Closed now, opens 12:15 PM

    Wednesday 12:15 PM–6:30 PM

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  5. Rank 5. Boulangerie Chambelland

    Gluten-free Bakery

    A gluten-free bakery near Rue Oberkampf, which in France is roughly like opening a steakhouse for vegetarians and then winning everyone over anyway. The rice flour focaccia comes out light and moist, and the seasonal tartlets lean on lemon, apple, or pear cream. The little "chambellines" loaves are easy to tuck into a bag for a picnic at Square Gardette. Le Fooding has it in the guide, and The Infatuation lists it among Paris's bakeries.


  6. A tiny bakery in the 11th with a counter and not much else, where the laminating is so thorough the apple chaussons look like ripples on a pond. The dough leans crisp rather than buttery, a fair warning if you like your croissants rich, and the fillings, vanilla applesauce and homemade gianduja, run a little too sweet. The sesame-seed sourdough is the better breakfast move, especially with soft butter.


  7. This is the Rue du Cherche-Midi outpost of a coffee shop that helped teach Paris to care about flat whites, back when espresso here meant a thimble of regret. It's a bakery-café with natural wood, white walls, and almost nowhere to sit, so laptop people should come off-peak and everyone else should plan to stand. Cake slices, baguette sandwiches, and savory pies cover lunch, and the bread gets its own following.


  8. This is a bakery-cafe whose sourdough has quietly replaced the baguette on the tables of restaurants around town, which is a bold career move in Paris. The loaf has a treacly crust and an airy middle, and it turns up in a smoky bacon-cheddar toastie alongside a flat white. This high-ceilinged 11th arrondissement outpost is the roomiest of the three, with a back terrace most people walk right past.


  9. This is the bakery on rue du Nil, a cobbled alley where the butcher, fishmonger, cheesemonger, and greengrocer all sit shoulder to shoulder, so picnic provisioning is basically a single-block errand. The loaves are dense sourdoughs with a close crumb, and the kouign amann is buttery enough to soak through its paper bag before you've made it ten steps. Cheap, cozy, and small enough that you'll be eating on the sidewalk.


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  51. Rank 15. La Carioca

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  56. Rank 15. Le Four de Babel

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  59. Rank 15. Le Sauvage

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  62. Rank 15. Levain

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  63. Rank 15. Levain Le Vin

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  74. Rank 15. Octopus

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  81. Rank 15. Parpains

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  94. A display case of aging fish greets you on the way to your table, which tells you most of what you need to know about this bistro on Île d'Oléron. You pass through the bakery first, where the sourdough is made with organic flour and genuine craft, then settle into a room of stone walls and pale wood. The chef is a local, and it shows in the relationships with artisans and the seafood that anchors the menu.

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  95. Rank 96. Mamiche

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    Mamiche is a boulangerie where the line out the door is part of the architecture, so bring patience and a napkin budget. The croissants run so buttery they turn the paper bag translucent before you reach the sidewalk. Babka and a cinnamon bun that perfumes half the block share the case with brioche buns and sandwiches like mackerel rillettes on grain bread. It's women-run, and cash-light cheap.


  96. Brigat' is a bakery just off Place des Vosges, run by two Italian brothers who apparently looked at the French and decided to do the bread, the viennoiserie, and the pastry all at once. Bakeries here usually pick a lane. There are a few seats at the back, a tiramisu-flavored tart as a nod to home, and a crumble that tastes like it was caramelized by someone with a grudge. It has made The Infatuation's lists of the best bakeries and pâtisseries in Paris.


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    6 Rue du Pas de la Mule, Paris, Île-de-France 75003, France · Paris
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    Closed now, opens 7:30 AM

    Wednesday 7:30 AM–8 PM

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  97. This is a bakery on the Canal Saint-Martin with a 19th-century façade that you'll have plenty of time to study from the line. The croissant dough gets rolled into pinwheel "escargots," filled with pistachio and chocolate chips or berries and cream cheese, and the croissants cost more than the neighbors' do. The Infatuation put it on its lists of the best bakeries and croissants in Paris. It's closed on weekends, so a Saturday queue is a rumor.



  98. This is a Paris bakery with a café attached, best known as the birthplace of the crookie, the croissant stuffed with cookie dough and rebaked that has since colonized bakery windows from Paris to Phoenix. The croissants run skinnier than most, so you get crunch from the first bite to the last. The tables next door charge a premium for the café atmosphere, so take your pastry to go and find a sofa. The Infatuation has named it to its lists of Paris's top croissants and top bakeries.


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