Au Paradis du Pain

My husband and I stayed at the hotel next door and popped by this bakery before a day of sightseeing Paris. What a lovely selection of pastries, each one looked more scrumptious than the next. I’m not one for sweet breakfasts, but I totally get it now. We had a couple of eclairs that were jam packed with peanut filling and cream, and share a croissant between us. They weren’t greasy and heavy at all and tasted well balanced. I was well-prepared to get the usual uppity Parisian treatment because we didn’t speak a lick of French, but no, the shopkeepers were so pleasant and friendly with us that day. We came back again on our last day in Paris. I don’t get why this place is so hated?

We bought 5 cupcakes and all of them were not fresh, very dried up and super sweet. Lady touched all our pastries with her hands without gloves and spatulas. We will never return. We didn’t expect this service and quality from the French bakery!

The best bakery in town! Everything I bought was extremely delicious, sandwiches, cakes and pastries. I highly recommend this place

Delicious bread and pastries! Very friendly even though we don’t speak French well

Very nice bakery near the Metro and our hotel. The croissants were perfect and the lady cashier was very nice to us and pretty fluent in English (which is rare in Paris).