Thursday threesome

Empty chairs as evening starts to fall.

Mother's Day Monday

 Yesterday was Mother's Day in France.

 

💐 

 

Maison Lardeux

63 rue Caulaincourt 75018

 

 

 

Paris-Brest

This version of the classic buttercream pastry is loaded with crushed hazelnuts.

Yann Couvreur Pâtisserie
23bis rue des Rosiers 75004

 

Also:

81 rue Caulaincourt 75018 

Fig heaven

Tartes in a local pâtisserie loaded with fresh figs, a perfect Thanksgiving dessert.

- Happy Thanksgiving 2018 -

["Thanksgivings Past": much-viewed post from 2015]

Madeleine and tea

No, not Proust's "madeleine moment" but view from an elegant Russian café-pâtisserie-salon-de-thé overlooking the Church of the Madeleine.

Café Pouchkine

16 Place de la Madeleine 75008

 

Cracking good

Croquante and enormous, these shiny meringues are just begging to be taken home.

The original beignet

 

In France, beignets are small and round and not buried under mounds of powdered sugar like their US cousins.