Bontemps La Pâtisserie
Pastry shop — Enfants-Rouges (Paris)
About
Bontemps is an enchanting Marais patisserie founded by Fiona Leluc, a former financier turned passionate pastry chef. Specializing in delicate sablés and seasonal tarts, this address offers a poetic tea room called 'Le Jardin Secret' with an atmosphere reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland. Desserts, including the Solliès fig tart and lemon cake, are prepared with meticulous attention to local and seasonal ingredients. The shop, decorated with powder pink walls, opaline lighting, and velvet armchairs, provides an intimate and refined gourmet experience.
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Bontemps - Indieep
ABOUT BONTEMPS Adjoining our Patisserie du Marais, the Bontemps restaurant “le Jardin Secret” is located at the end of a small country courtyard and will offer you a truly enchanted break. The retro-chic setting with a boudoir spirit: powder pink walls, velvet sofas and armchairs, fields of opalines hanging from the ceiling, fine porcelain tableware and bouquets of flowers. You can enjoy the pretty flowered and shaded terrace in the first rays of sunshine. We will offer you a gourmet and timeless moment to: In our Sunday Brunch, you will taste wonderful homemade pastries fresh from the oven, our unique orangeade with Lebanese orange blossom, homemade buns with Bellota chorizo or tuna belly and a dish of your choice, such as the avocado bun with smoked salmon from the Barthouil house or the Korean Pulled Pork and you will finish with a delicious seasonal pastry. Lunch with revisited classics like the incomparable Avocado bun with smoked salmon from Maison Barthouil or confit lamb shoulder with wild herbs and a menu that changes with the seasons, candied tomato tart on homemade puff pastry in summer, autumn tart with chanterelles or homemade gnocchi with Gorgonzola and pumpkin in autumn… Tea time around exceptional teas, old-fashioned homemade hot chocolate and seasonal pastries Share the love for Bontemps on: WHAT WE LOVE Bontemps is the definition of what we call a French “salon de thé”. Cozy hidden place situated in the heart of Paris (3rd district) where you will enjoy one of the best French tarts you may find with a great choice between fruits tarts or a decadent chocolate and hazelnuts tart (the crust is recognized in the whole city as being incredible). The place is decorated in a very nice vintage and welcoming style. Perfect place for a brunch or a teatime. Cute terrasse for sunny days. Tips: book in advance if you want to come during the week-end.
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Bontemps Pâtisserie — Bakery Review | Condé Nast Traveler
Let’s start with scale. Where are we between global flagship and neighborhood boutique? This dollhouse of a Parisian pastry shop and tea salon is family-run, led by pastry chef Fiona Leluc who turned an obsession with sablés (shortbread cookies) into a fully-fledged business. She and her sister Fatina antiqued all of the beautiful decorative details in both the shop and tea salon, from vintage hanging tulip lights to dishware and dish cabinets. Velvety poufs and armchairs make for comfortable lingering indoors at the tea salon but when the weather allows, locals book ahead for a spot in the open courtyard. What can we find here, or what should we look for? Shortbread (sablé) is the starting point for everything produced here. Heart-shaped or mini shortbread "sandwich" cookies burst with seasonal fillings (wild strawberry, passion fruit, blood orange; banana-rum; Sicilian lemon) while large, shareable tartes showcase the best of seasonal fruits and flavors, pecan to apple or Comice pear, which are made with the same light and delicate shortbread crust. At the tea salon, guests can also have a full lunch, brunch on weekends, or teatime which includes hot chocolate, coffee, or a selection of their own loose-leaf teas. If money’s no object, what goes in the cart? Book a table and go for the full tea time spread. And … what if we’re on a budget? Ideal for take-away (as a picnic, a dinner party offering, or gift) is the assortment of mini "Bontemps", what the owners call their mini, bite-sized cookies. Who else shops here? Given the retro-chic decor and elegant pastry offering, you'll find aesthetic-hunters, Instagrammers, pastry-obsessed, and likely a crowd of foreigners. The to-go shop is strong on local regulars who turn to Bontemps for all of their sweet needs. Any secret tips, or “don’t go home without” purchases? Perhaps the only thing without a sablé base, the outrageous indulgent lemon cake cannot be missed. You should add it to your order because it's frankly silly not to succumb to one of the most luscious iterations of the cake that exists in the city.
cntraveler.com
Bontemps, the poetic-romantic pastry shop
1. Home 2. 3. Bontemps, the poetic-romantic pastry shop 4. I really wanted my own shop and looked around for a long time, I dreamt of it and I am proud of it! My first wish was for it to have soul, for it to be authentic, poetic and slightly out of time. And indeed, it happens to be in a historic private mansion where Madame de Maintenon is said to have lived for a year. It’s really a women’s haven! And that’s precisely what I like. I am particularly fond of the checkered mirror showcased in our shop, which we picked up by happenstance with my husband from a mirror maker who had forgotten it in his cellar since 15 years! We gave it a second life because it was made to follow us.
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