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My favorite chocolate factory is "à la Petite Fabrique"

 

à la Petite Fabrique is located at 12, rue Saint Sabin in the Bastille area (Metro Bastille or Bréget-Sabin)
Open Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 am - 7:30 pm, closed Sunday - Monday,

It is mentioned along my walk No. 3 (Bastille). The chocolate is home made and you can actually see them make it !

 

À la Petite Fabrique have tablet-style chocolate - not bars of chocolate and season specialities.

They provide gift wrapping as well.
- my personal favorite chocolate bars: "Orange Fondant", "Praline Noir", "Amer"(bitter) "Amer noisette" - hazelnuts.

- Tablets - lait (milk chocolate) 1,68€, praliné 2,26 euros, amer 2,29 euros, fondant noisettes (hazelnuts) 2,24 euros (prices may change)

 

 

Preparing "ganache" - chocolate pieces filled with different flavors and covered in chocolate

Bruno putting on the coffee beans

coffee beans

Covering the ganache with liquid chocolate

Jean-Claude working at a fast pace

Fresh off the assembly line

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


L'Atelier du Chocolat Bayonne

Bouquets de Chocolats

109, rue Saint-Antoine 75004 near Metro Saint-Paul

 

Their bouquets are sold by weight: 220 grams for example is 11,40 euros; 1 kilo (kg) or 2 pounds is 51,85 euros.

 

The bouquets come already assembled or you can pick and choose. My experience shows that the first time an already-assembled provides a taste of everything; but if you have specific tastes, choose your own.

 

The slabs of chocolate are made at their shop


 

Websites about chocolate

 

The Chocolatiers & Confiseurs de France has a website that lists a select number of shops around France and their specialties (in French).

 

For further information such as an address, website, e-mail address, what their activity is and their specialties, click on the phrase "en savoir plus".

 

Marquise de Sévigné has been around since 1898. In October 2005 at the Salon du Chocolat 2005, this company won first prize in the category Praliné (sugared almond taste)  along with 8 other awards for their their chocolat fourré pur ganache, chocolat fourré praliné, chocolat alliance and tablette de chocolat.

 

The Marquise de Sévigné factory and museum is located just south of Strasbourg. In Paris their shops are at 62, rue de Seine in the 6th arrondissement and at Bon Marché.


 

 

 

 

 

 

Other chocolate places:

 

Everywhere you turn, there seem to be chocolate shops in Paris. Make sure that they are not industrial and are made of butter (beurre).

 

La Fontaine

201, rue Saint-Honoré 75001

(Catherine Cluizel)

www.fontaineauchocolat.com

 

Learned about la Fontaine at the Salon du Chocolat, visited their shop. Truffles made on site, the rest

manufactured outside Paris. The assortment is 8,30€/100g. Chocolate bars in different percentages of cocoa. I like their dark chocolate from Santo Domingo.

 

Charles Chocolatier

17, rue Montorgueil, On the north side of Les Halles (Metro Les Halles), along Walk No. 1.

 

 

 

 

 

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