Pain au chocolat aux amandes and Artisan Boulanger
Yesterday I went to a new patisserie in Fontainebleau and found a pleasant surprise there. The place is called ARTISAN BOULANGER and is located in the heart of the downtown (11 Rue Grande).
It was Saturday morning 9 am. The queue was standing along the long display window. Now, having spent 2 months here, I’d probably get suspicious about the quality of pastry if there was no queue at this time :)
The choice is pretty similar to what you’ll find anywhere else.
Croques (hot sandwiches) and pizzas
Sweet gateaux
Bread
Approaching the counter I saw a bit carelessly looking ‘Pain au chocolat aux amandes’ costing almost €2.
I was curious: ‘Pain au chocolat’ is something you can find everywhere (including wiki :) and it is clearly very popular, given that there are shops in Paris famous for this pastry. One of these is Boulangerie Malineau (18, rue Vieille du Temple, Paris), we went to recently (see the post about it). But this looked totally different, a little resembling the ‘croissant amande’. So I bought it to try.
It was worth it. Very tender warm puff pastry filled with soft chocolate and almond marzipan. To me it was much more impressing than the classical pain au chocolat. I’m just curious, why isn’t it more popular?
may be it is high elastic and normal pain au chocolat is more like a substitute..
ReplyDeletebut anyhow, thanks for the information and I'll give it a try.