Eating Paris: Saint-Germain-des-Prés Food & Wine Tour

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

• 1
  Boulangerie Poilâne

  It’s an institution and they’re the main bread suppliers for some of the best food shops and restaurants in Paris. Taste the finest apple tart and spoon-shaped butter cookies

  15 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 2
  Barthélémy

  Feeling Presidential? Sample cheese from one of the best cheese shops in Paris and official suppliers of cheese to the French presidents since 1970

  15 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 3
  De la cuisine et du pain

  Thierry Marx bakery is associated to the famous michelin starred chef Thierry Marx. Slip into a hidden food court to taste traditional baking from one of Paris’ most eccentric, Michelin’ starred chefs

  15 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 4
  Des Gâteaux et du Pain

  The shop has been elected best pastry shop in Paris in 2018 and it is known for the artistry and unique and natural flavours of the pastries served here like works of art. It is a rare female French pastry chef and considered today to be one of the best pastry chefs in Paris.

  15 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 5
  Ryst Dupeyron - Vintage and Co

  Pay a special visit to to one of the oldest brandy shops in Paris to sip on Armagnac and vintage port. Wine distiller and armagnac producer since 1905. A historical shop which specialities in Armagnac, Port wine, Premiers Crus and Grands Crus wines and other rare spirits..

  15 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 6
  L'Avant Comptoir du Marché

  Yves Camdebord is considered to be a pioneer of neo bistro or bistronomy in Paris. L’Avant-Comptoir du Marché is a hotspot for all food lovers and local chefs.

  15 minutes • Admission ticket free
• La Grande Épicerie de Paris (Pass by)

  Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche is the first Parisian department store or “grand magasin”, a “cathedral of modern commerce” created by Aristide Boucicaut. The interior design is the result of the work of the Moisant and Gustave Eiffel studios, who applied their latest research in terms of industrial metal architecture to Le Bon Marché, in order to create a structure that lets in light.

  Admission ticket free
• Café de Flore (Pass by)

  One of the oldest coffeehouses in Paris opened in the 1880s and a popular hub of famous writers and philosophers. Pablo Picasso, Truman Capote, Albert Camus, and Ernest Hemingway were once regular customers here.

  Admission ticket free
• Les Deux Magots (Pass by)

  Existentialists like Jean-Paul Sartre, surrealists like André Breton, and novelists such as James Joyce would meet regularly at the café.

  Admission ticket free
• Church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Pass by)

  Admire the Roman Catholic parish church which is the oldest church in Paris housing the burials of Frankish kings and the philosopher René Descartes.

  Admission ticket free
• Mandarin Oriental Lutetia, Paris (Pass by)

  The Hotel Lutetia is a luxury hotel and one of the best known hotels on the left bank. It was built in 1910 in the Art Nouveau style and it has hosted many famous guests over the years: Picasso and Matisse, Charles De Gaulle, Peggy Guggenheim

  Admission ticket free

Additional info

• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Service animals allowed
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• Email to advise of any dietary requirements such as vegetarian and gluten-free diets
• This tour is not suitable for vegan and people with dairy allergy

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