Paris Saint-Germain Private Food Tour 6 or 10 Gourmet Tastings

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

• 1

  Grand Architecture and a Hidden Imbalance. Begin before a monumental Parisian church whose present construction started in 1646. Look carefully at its two towers: they differ in design, and the southern tower is five meters shorter. Your guide turns this easily overlooked imbalance into an introduction to the ambitions, interruptions and changing tastes that shaped Paris. restaurersaintsulpice.fr You’d Never Notice This: the façade looks symmetrical at first glance—until you compare the towers. Photo opportunity: stand across the square and keep both towers in the frame to reveal the difference.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 2

  Four Bishops and a Parisian Play on Words. Look closely at the fountain’s four seated bishops. None became a cardinal, giving the monument its playful association with “four points cardinaux”: four directions, but also four men who were “not cardinals.” It is a small example of how your guide can reveal humor hidden inside a grand Parisian monument. restaurersaintsulpice.fr Photo opportunity: frame a fountain figure in the foreground with the church rising behind it.

  5 minutes • Admission ticket free
• (Pass by)

  Ten-tasting option only. Sixth Arrondissement Town Hall —The Architecture of Everyday Paris. Built between 1847 and 1849, this town hall connects monumental Paris with everyday life. Look for its three entrance arches, civic clock and city emblems while your guide explains the role of the arrondissement and why civil wedding ceremonies bring couples to buildings like this. Mairie du 6ᵉ Photo opportunity: photograph the central façade straight on, using its symmetry and clock as your focal points.

  Admission ticket free
• 3
  Pierre Herme

  Fine Chocolate and Parisian Pâtisserie. Discover a celebrated name in contemporary French pastry at Pierre Hermé’s first Paris boutique, opened in 2001 after his earlier success in Japan. Named the world’s best pastry chef in 2016, Hermé approaches flavor through carefully composed combinations. Your guide helps you appreciate the craftsmanship inside a small, beautifully made confection. www.visitparisregion.com Included tasting: one fine filled chocolate. The ten-tasting option also includes one macaron. Both are individual tasting pieces. Photo opportunity: hold your confection beside its packaging, with the boutique softly visible behind it.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 4

  Ten-tasting option only. A Sweet Journey into French Tradition. Discover a confectionery house founded in 1761, with more than 260 years of history. This later Bonaparte boutique brings together the work of cabinetmakers, gilders and ironworkers: beautiful craftsmanship surrounds the sweets themselves. Your guide introduces the regional traditions behind French confectionery. À la Mère de Famille Included tasting: two miniature calissous, almond confections counted together as one tasting. Photo opportunity: capture the little sweets against their presentation box; ask before photographing inside.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 5

  The Tiny Sign Most Visitors Miss. Look above the entrance at 18 Rue des Canettes for a little scene of ducks in the water. Historic representations of this sign appear in the Musée Carnavalet collections. Your guide uses it to explain how pictures, shop signs and building details helped give old Paris its identity. Paris Musées You’d Never Notice This: a modest decoration above a doorway can tell you more about a street than its modern storefronts. Photo opportunity: take one wider photograph showing the doorway, followed by a close-up of the sign.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 6
  Marche St. Germain

  French Cheese and the Neighborhood Shopping Ritual. Enter a covered market whose building dates to 1817, on a site associated with a fair established in 1482. Around 14 traders give today’s market an intimate scale. Discover how a cheesemonger helps customers choose by texture, maturity and occasion—and why specialist shopping remains such a pleasure in France. www.paris.fr Included tasting: a small Comté sample with bread. The ten-tasting option adds Brie, allowing you to compare firm and creamy textures. Planned cheese portions are approximately 25–30 g each. Photo opportunity: photograph the cheese samples together before tasting, with the market setting behind them.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 7
  Maison Mulot - Saint Germain Des Pres

  Buttery Layers and French Savory Baking. Founded in 1975, Maison Mulot brings together three crafts: bakery, pâtisserie and savory catering. Its displays introduce the delicious practicalities of Parisian life: choosing something for lunch, assembling a picnic or bringing dessert to friends. Your guide explains what makes good pastry worth slowing down to appreciate. www.maison-mulot.com Included tasting: a small quiche portion, approximately half an individual quiche. The ten-tasting option adds one mini croissant. These are sampling portions. Photo opportunity: show the quiche filling in a close-up; on the longer option, gently open the croissant to reveal its airy layers.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 8
  Cour du Commerce Saint Andre

  Cobbles, Shopfronts and Old Paris. Discover a narrow historic passage where cobblestones, small shopfronts and enclosed perspectives offer a different Paris from the grand boulevards. Your guide helps you read the street at eye level: the surfaces, signs and proportions that make an old neighborhood feel distinctive. Photo opportunity: use the passage as a natural frame, placing your companion to one side so the cobbled perspective remains visible.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 9
  Le Procope

  Ten-tasting option only. Coffee, Conversation and the Enlightenment. Founded in 1686, Le Procope became associated with thinkers including Voltaire and Diderot. Outside its historic address, discover how a cup of coffee could accompany debate, writing and the exchange of ideas. The story gives an unexpected cultural depth to the café experience awaiting you later. VisitParisRegion Photo opportunity: include the restaurant’s name above your shoulder, leaving enough space to show the façade.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 10

  Ten-tasting option only. A Historic Name Meets Modern Paris. See how a café tradition dating to 1884 has developed a contemporary takeaway format. The Comptoirs offers an introduction to modern Parisian habits: beautifully presented food for people who have somewhere to be. Later, you will experience the slower, seated side of the same café culture. Comptoirs Les Deux Magots Photo opportunity: photograph the window and branding to contrast with your seated café finale.

  5 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 11

  Everyday Paris in Motion. Experience a lively street of cafés, food shops and neighborhood encounters. Your guide draws attention to the details behind the atmosphere: the rhythm of shopping, the pleasure of a terrace and the small exchanges that make a familiar street feel like a community. Photo opportunity: choose an angle with layered shopfronts and café awnings; avoid close-up photographs of strangers without consent.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 12

  An Intimate Parisian Portrait. Step into a small square whose trees, traditional lamps and surrounding façades create one of the walk’s most appealing portrait settings. Pause to appreciate its proportions and quieter atmosphere before discovering the artist’s address nearby. Photo opportunity: place your subject beneath the trees with a lamp slightly to one side. Step back rather than using an extreme wide-angle lens.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free
• (Pass by)

  The Artist’s Address That Connects Your Walk. Delacroix moved here in 1857 and remained until his death in 1863. He chose the neighborhood partly to be closer to his work at Saint-Sulpice—the church where your tour began. Your guide connects two seemingly separate stops through the practical daily life of a celebrated artist. application.musee-delacroix.fr You’d Never Notice This: your route follows a personal connection between an artist’s home and his work. Photo opportunity: photograph the entrance and identifying sign together.

  Admission ticket free
• 13

  Ten-tasting option only. Art, Fashion and the Beautiful Book. This boutique, opened in 2005, brings together books, design and luxury. Its window offers a contemporary continuation of Saint-Germain’s literary identity: books as sources of inspiration, beautiful objects and invitations to explore art, fashion and distant places. Shopping Photo opportunity: frame the book display with the storefront; check reflections before taking your picture.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free
• Le Bonaparte (Pass by)

  The Café as a Neighborhood Living Room. Discover a café that has attracted students from the nearby École des Beaux-Arts for decades. Your guide uses this address to explore the café’s everyday role: somewhere to meet, observe, sketch, talk and spend time between the obligations of city life. Le Bonaparte Photo opportunity: capture the café frontage from an angle that includes the surrounding street.

  Admission ticket free
• 14
  Church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés

  The Neighborhood Before the Cafés. The religious foundation here dates to 543, long before today’s boutiques and literary terraces. Discover how an abbey shaped the surrounding neighborhood and how buildings from different periods preserve layers of Parisian history. Your guide distinguishes the early foundation from the later architecture visible today. Église Saint Germain des Prés Photo opportunity: include the tower above the surrounding streetscape to show old and contemporary Paris together.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 15
  Café de Flore

  Ten-tasting option only. Literary Reputation Still Being Written Pause outside another emblem of Saint-Germain’s café culture. Its Prix de Flore, founded in 1994, shows that the connection between cafés and literature continues today. Your guide brings the neighborhood’s intellectual reputation into the present through stories of writing, recognition and creative life. cafedeflore.fr Photo opportunity: photograph the famous lettering with the terrace, keeping seated customers incidental rather than the subject.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 16

  Ideas Written into the City. Named for Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in 2000, this square turns literary history into an everyday Parisian address. Your guide introduces their connection to Saint-Germain through accessible stories about writing, independence and the ideas discussed around its café tables. expositions.bnf.fr Photo opportunity: include the street plaque in a detail photograph before your café finale.

  5 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 17
  Les Deux Magots

  Three Little Desserts and the Pleasure of Lingering. Finish seated at a café established in 1884, associated with writers including Hemingway, Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Enjoy the pleasure of staying awhile as your guide connects the flavors and places you have discovered with French customs and contemporary Parisian life. lesdeuxmagots.fr Your included coffee, tea or hot chocolate accompanies three miniature desserts. Ask questions, compare favorite tastes and gather personal recommendations for the rest of your stay. The café chooses the mini desserts; specific flavors are not guaranteed. Les Deux Magots Photo opportunity: photograph your drink and complete dessert assortment, followed by a relaxed portrait at the table.

  30 minutes • Admission ticket free

Additional info

• Wheelchair accessible
• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Service animals allowed
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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