Le Gateau Dore Fiesta
Pâtisserie — Porte Saint-Martin (Paris)
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Le Gâteau Doré Fiesta est une pâtisserie unique située dans le quartier animé du Faubourg du Temple, à Paris. Spécialisée dans la création de gâteaux pour événements spéciaux, cette boutique se démarque par son style décalé et son approche ludique de la pâtisserie. Connue pour ses gâteaux d'anniversaire spectaculaires, l'établissement propose une variété de décorations originales, allant des personnages traditionnels aux figurines plus provocantes. C'est un lieu incontournable pour ceux qui cherchent un gâteau personnalisé qui sortira des sentiers battus, offrant une touche d'humour et de créativité à chaque célébration.
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Pâtisserie – Polything
When people think about Paris, the top things they think about are the landmarks (the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe and so on), the great public buildings (the Louvre, the Opera), and the cafés and restaurants. But there’s one aspect of Paris that isn’t necessarily on everyone’s list: the place is a baker’s paradise. We’re currently on a two-month stay in Paris. Rather than being in a standard tourist area, the apartment we’ve rented is somewhat north-east of the city centre in Belleville, made famous by Sylvain Chaumet’s wonderful animated film Belleville Rendezvous (aka The Triplets of Belleville). It’s an ethnically mixed residential area, with a large population of North African origin as well as a lot of Chinese and Vietnamese mixing with the white population. Our apartment is on the Rue du Faubourg du Temple between Belleville and République metro stations. In the course of that one kilometre stretch, without going into the side streets, I counted fourteen bakeries of different kinds. Most of them are places I’d be more than happy to patronise near my home; the best are utterly outstanding. Here’s a little guided tour – in no particular order (and not geographically). The most outstanding bread so far came from next to Goncourt metro: the Urban Bakery Goncourt, a branch of a small chain, with ten shops across Paris, which descibes itself as a “Boulangerie Engagée”. They do a wide selection of breads with different grains – rye and buckwheat as well as standard wheat – which simply burst with flavour. The Urban Bakery does some pâtisserie, though bread is clearly its main focus. However, it’s next door to Yann Couvreur, which doesn’t do bread but does uber-posh, innovative pâtisserie (at eye-watering prices, one has to admit). Couvreur is a famous pastry chef who also has branches in the Marais and in the main Galeries Lafayette, plus a café in town. Nearer to République, Aux Péchés Normands does great bread and fabulous croissants and pastries, if perhaps not quite up to the refined levels above. But I can attest that their lemon meringue tartlets are a thing of beauty. The really unexpected one was Mami, which describes itself as a “Boulangerie Levantine”. Taking its inspiration from all things Jewish and Middle Eastern, it has mouth-watering Babkas and a variety of Challahs, including a Za’atar-flavoured Challah, which is something I’ve never seen before but is quite delicious. The area has many North African inhabitants (particularly Tunisians, it seems to me), resulting in the presence of many shops specialising in Arab and Maghrebi breads, sweets and pastries. It’s Ramadan at the moment, so every evening, there are vast arrays of goodies stacked on trestle tables outside the shops, which wolfed down when the fast ends at sunset (to be fair, they also seem pretty busy through the day from both Muslim and non-Muslim shoppers). The one that seems permanently rammed is called Bennah – I took photos of three others and I probably missed a few. For something completely different, there’s Le gâteau doré fiesta Pâtisserie. It’s a cake shop which sells large cakes for birthdays and other events, apparently in large volumes. Its unusual feature, however, which has led me to dub it the “pornographic cake shop” is the array of scantily-clad plastic women in the window, waiting to adorn the birthday cake of your fantasies. (To be fair, there are also more conventional figures of brides and grooms, furry animals, national flags and so on). On the other side of the road from Le gáteau doré is a more demure looking (and possibly more upmarket) shop specialising in cakes for events, the Pâtisserie La Romainville. Another cake shop – the one nearest us, Délices de Belleville – is also labelled with the Chinese characters for “happy cake”. And there is no shortage of standard boulangerie-pâtisseries, the sort that will sell your morning baguettes and croissants as well as a variety of other stuff. Several of these don’t even have a brand name attached and are just labelled Boulangerie Pâtisserie or Artisan Boulanger Pâtissier or similar. And that’s not counting the several supermarkets along the way that will sell you bread, croissants and cakes. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a place where you can’t walk for 50 metres without running into a bakery, and I’ve certainly never lived in one. And I love it.
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Food – Polything
Tag: Food When people think about Paris, the top things they think about are the landmarks (the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe and so on), the great public buildings (the Louvre, the Opera), and the cafés and restaurants. But there’s one aspect of Paris that isn’t necessarily on everyone’s list: the place is a baker’s paradise. We’re currently on a two-month stay in Paris. Rather than being in a standard tourist area, the apartment we’ve rented is somewhat north-east of the city centre in Belleville, made famous by Sylvain Chaumet’s wonderful animated film Belleville Rendezvous (aka The Triplets of Belleville). It’s an ethnically mixed residential area, with a large population of North African origin as well as a lot of Chinese and Vietnamese mixing with the white population. Our apartment is on the Rue du Faubourg du Temple between Belleville and République metro stations. In the course of that one kilometre stretch, without going into the side streets, I counted fourteen bakeries of different kinds. Most of them are places I’d be more than happy to patronise near my home; the best are utterly outstanding. Here’s a little guided tour – in no particular order (and not geographically). The most outstanding bread so far came from next to Goncourt metro: the Urban Bakery Goncourt, a branch of a small chain, with ten shops across Paris, which descibes itself as a “Boulangerie Engagée”. They do a wide selection of breads with different grains – rye and buckwheat as well as standard wheat – which simply burst with flavour. The Urban Bakery does some pâtisserie, though bread is clearly its main focus. However, it’s next door to Yann Couvreur, which doesn’t do bread but does uber-posh, innovative pâtisserie (at eye-watering prices, one has to admit). Couvreur is a famous pastry chef who also has branches in the Marais and in the main Galeries Lafayette, plus a café in town. Nearer to République, Aux Péchés Normands does great bread and fabulous croissants and pastries, if perhaps not quite up to the refined levels above. But I can attest that their lemon meringue tartlets are a thing of beauty. The really unexpected one was Mami, which describes itself as a “Boulangerie Levantine”. Taking its inspiration from all things Jewish and Middle Eastern, it has mouth-watering Babkas and a variety of Challahs, including a Za’atar-flavoured Challah, which is something I’ve never seen before but is quite delicious. The area has many North African inhabitants (particularly Tunisians, it seems to me), resulting in the presence of many shops specialising in Arab and Maghrebi breads, sweets and pastries. It’s Ramadan at the moment, so every evening, there are vast arrays of goodies stacked on trestle tables outside the shops, which wolfed down when the fast ends at sunset (to be fair, they also seem pretty busy through the day from both Muslim and non-Muslim shoppers). The one that seems permanently rammed is called Bennah – I took photos of three others and I probably missed a few. For something completely different, there’s Le gâteau doré fiesta Pâtisserie. It’s a cake shop which sells large cakes for birthdays and other events, apparently in large volumes. Its unusual feature, however, which has led me to dub it the “pornographic cake shop” is the array of scantily-clad plastic women in the window, waiting to adorn the birthday cake of your fantasies. (To be fair, there are also more conventional figures of brides and grooms, furry animals, national flags and so on). On the other side of the road from Le gáteau doré is a more demure looking (and possibly more upmarket) shop specialising in cakes for events, the Pâtisserie La Romainville. Another cake shop – the one nearest us, Délices de Belleville – is also labelled with the Chinese characters for “happy cake”. And there is no shortage of standard boulangerie-pâtisseries, the sort that will sell your morning baguettes and croissants as well as a variety of other stuff. Several of these don’t even have a brand name attached and are just labelled Boulangerie Pâtisserie or Artisan Boulanger Pâtissier or similar. And that’s not counting the several supermarkets along the way that will sell you bread, croissants and cakes. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a place where you can’t walk for 50 metres without running into a bakery, and I’ve certainly never lived in one. And I love it. For anyone planning a Seder night (the Jewish celebration of Passover eve), the question raises itself of how to make a flourless dessert. There are various standard tricks, like using ground almonds or matzo meal to substitute for the flour, but here is a fabulous, indulgent dessert that avoids the tricks altogether. This chocolate mousse started life as one of my mother’s standards, taken from the classic American cookbook Joy of Cooking (still in print and being revised, 93 years after its first edition – my own copy is now so tattered that it needs replacing). I’ve made things metric and changed various quantities, mainly to suit what you buy in English supermarkets, although, to be honest, it’s incredibly forgiving: the recipe will still work OK even if you change the ratios of cream to chocolate to eggs sugar, so you can make sweeter, lighter or more intensely chocolatey at will. Recently, I’ve been making a more substantial change: making the egg whites into an Italian meringue before folding them into the rest of the mixture. The result is a far lighter, stable consistency which, in my view, is well worth the extra effort. This needs a thermometer – if you don’t have one, just go for standard sweetened beaten egg whites. By the way, I tend to use the egg yolks for crème pâtissière, for use in éclairs or fruit tarts. The Italian meringue * 4 large egg whites * 200g sugar (this is less than most recipes, so you can up it to 300g if wanted) * 5oml water * Juice of half a lemon 1. Pu the egg whites into the bowl of your stand mixer, equipped with the whisk attachment. 2. Put the sugar and water into a small saucepan and heat: for the first part of the process, make sure you mix things until the sugar is properly dissolved. 3. Monitor the temperature regularly with a thermometer: you will be using the syrup when it reaches 121℃. 4. Well in time for the syrup to be complete (I tend to start when it’s at around 90℃), whisk the egg whites until they form soft peaks. Stop the mixer. 5. When the syrup reaches 121℃, restart the mixer on full speed, and slowly pour the syrup into the bowl, in as thin a dribble as you can manage. 6. Add the lemon juice, then continue mixing for at least 10 minutes while the meringue cools. 7. Remove the whisk – you meringue is now ready to use. The mousse * 50g sugar * 80g rum * 350g dark chocolate, at least 70% cocoa solids * 500ml cream 1. Put the sugar and rum into a saucepan and warm gently until dissolved into a syrup. You do NOT want the syrup to caramelise. 2. Take the syrup off the heat and leave to cool somewhat. 3. Break up the chocolate, then heat in a double boiler until melted 4. Mix in the syrup 5. Mix in 100ml of the cream, a bit at a time, until everything is smoothly blended 6. Whip the remaining 400ml of the cream until stiff 7. Fold in the chocolate mixture until completely blended (you don’t really want white blotches). 8. Now fold in the Italian meringue. Try to do it without overworking, which will lose the air – but at the same time, you want it completely mixed. It’s a good idea to fold in about a quarter of the meringue first, and then the remainder, which you’ll be able to do more gently. 9. Put the mousse into a large bowl for serving, or into individual ramekins or glasses if you prefer. I like serving this with a red fruit coulis, made from reducing and sieving frozen red fruit and sugar, with a bit of lemon juice added. The sharpness of the coulis cuts through the richness of the mousse, and anyway, raspberries and chocolate are a marriage made in heaven. Where home-coming Argentinians ma
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Où trouver un gâteau d’anniversaire (ou de mariage, ou de baby shower…) à Paris ?
Trouver le gâteau parfait pour une occasion spéciale à Paris peut s’avérer complexe. Cette recherche est ancrée dans une tradition sociale et culturelle où le gâteau symbolise le point culminant de la célébration. Voici une sélection d’adresses pour simplifier cette quête, de quoi répondre aux exigences de tous les événements, qu’il s’agisse d’un anniversaire, d’un mariage ou encore d’une baby shower. Layer cake, nude cake, number cake, cupcakes, wedding cake, red velvet cake… La quête du gâteau idéal pour une occasion spéciale à Paris revêt souvent un caractère épineux. Elle peut même parfois devenir un défi de taille. Il faut dire toute l’importance qu’on donne à l’objet de désir en question : le gâteau symbolise bien plus qu’une simple friandise sucrée ; il incarne le point culminant de la célébration. Ainsi, son choix relève pour certains de l’importance capitale. EnVols s’est donné pour mission de simplifier votre recherche en dressant une liste soigneusement sélectionnée d’endroits où trouver des gâteaux d’anniversaire, de mariage, de baby shower, et bien plus encore, à Paris. Nul doute qu’en explorant ces options, vous pourrez trouver le gâteau parfait. De quoi faire de votre événement un moment tout à fait spécial. LES MEILLEURS ENDROITS OÙ TROUVER UN (GROS) GÂTEAU À PARIS Oh mon cake 154 Rue Saint-Honoré, 75001 Paris ohmoncake.fr Crush Cake 106 Rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011 Paris crush-cake.com Cake O’Clock Paris 1 Rue Magnier Bédu, 95410 Groslay cakeoclockparis.com Love and Cakes Paris 16 Rue Ferdinand Flocon, 75018 Paris loveandcakes.fr Chez Bogato 5 Rue Saint-Merri, 75004 Paris chezbogato.fr Maison Bouchra bouchra-paris.com Le Gâteau Doré Fiesta 27 Rue du Faubourg du Temple, 75010 Paris legateaudorefiesta.com Clove Bakery 69 Rue Greneta, 75002 Paris clovebakery.com Jo and Nana Cakes 14 Rue Abel, 75012 Paris joandnanacakes.com Hinalys instagram.com/hinalys Céline Cake Design 182 Rue Saint-Maur, 75010 Paris celinecakedesign.com Berko Original 23 Rue Rambuteau, 75004 Paris berko.fr ISO Café 69 Rue Labat, 75018 Paris isocafe.fr Délices de Belleville 108 Rue du Faubourg du Temple, 75011 Paris www.delicesdebelleville.fr Bastien Blanc-Tailleur 5 Rue Clapeyron, 75008 Paris bastien-blanc-tailleur.com Gabriel Pastry 45 Rue Notre Dame de Nazareth, 75003 Paris gabriel-pastry-art.fr
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