Grocery stores in Paris

Best grocery stores in Paris

The city is famous for great food. Fresh products are brought overnight from France to Rungis, the world's largest fresh product wholesale market, sold the next day in Paris markets and in grocery stores. They are turned into great meals the same day in the best restaurants.

We made a selection of the best grocery stores selling food and wine in the city. Some are large and fancy. Others are little shops. There are many specialized food stores in town. In Paris, there is always a bakery, a butcher shop, a charcuterie and a supermarket around the corner.

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La Grande Epicerie

La Grande Epicerie is a fancy grocery store, the largest in the left bank.

Chefs and apprentices in bakery, gastronomy and pastry work daily in nearly 1,500 m2 of laboratories. These laboratories move from the shadows to the light to reveal, at each stand, the creations and know-how of food specialists. The Parisian institution of gastronomy offers gourmets 30,000 references – exceptional, rare or traditional products.

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Galeries Lafayette Le Gourmet

Galeries Lafayette Le Gourmet is the largest grocery store in town with renowned chefs, pastry chefs, prestigious establishments, young talents, choice brands. On three floors and more than 4,500 m2, the market square, the delicatessen, the cellar, the gourmet boutiques, the Tables du Gourmet make up a vibrant mosaic of the French art of living.

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Eataly Le Marais

Eataly Le Marais is the top Italian grocery store in town. From pizza to fresh pasta to cooking classes, Eataly let you discover 1,200 products and 1,500 wines from Italy. Eataly has seven catering outlets. A festival of specialties and products selected from little know producers, under the aegis of Slow Food, the Italian cultural movement to defend farmers from all regions. The first Eataly concept store was opened in Turin in 2007, followed by New York, São Paulo, Tokyo, Moscow and Dubai.

Champs-Elysées hotel

Hôtel Barrière Fouquet's is the only hotel overlooking the Champs-Elysées. This 5-star hotel features a spa with a swimming pool and sauna, 3 bars and 2 restaurants, including the historic Fouquet's brasserie. All rooms have been decorated by top designers. Most rooms offer views of the Champs-Élysées, Avenue George-V or the hotel's interior garden. Champs-Elysées hotels.

Best Paris grocery shops

There are many smaller size quality grocery stores.

Pierre Oteiza: basque grocery store. Good, friendly, affordable.

Nicolas Julhes: grocery store. Wine, cheese, charcuterie.

A la Mère de Famille: specialized in chocolate, candies since 1761.

Cooking lessons in Paris

A great introduction to French food is a cooking or wine tasting class. Through a partner, Paris Digest offers you cooking lessons, macaroons workshops, wine tasting and create your own wine workshops in Paris. All activities are done in English.

Other activities include perfume creation workshops, sightseeing bike tours, tours in a 2CV vintage car, river cruises, limo tours. These are activities that will turn your stay into a memorable experience.

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Food in Paris markets

A century long tradition, the open-air markets are an alternative to grocery stores. Most markets are outdoor street markets and focus on food, including meat, fish, cheese, vegetables and fruit, bought the same day in Rungis, the largest wholesale food market in the world. Many local producers from the Paris region or other regions of France sell directly in the Parisian markets.

A few specialized markets don't sell food, but anything from flowers and stamps to unique antiques. A few are famous.

The street markets survive and even thrive in the face of hard competition by supermarkets and online distribution. Most retailers in the markets are family run businesses, operating in a different market everyday. They pay a reasonable fixed fee to get a space. Most people know their retailers and chat with them. The markets create social links in the city.

Paris markets

Best pastry shops in Paris

Bakeries and Patisseries (Boulangerie Patisserie) are rightly one of the celebrated pleasures of the city.

To taste the best French pastries, bread and croissants, go to Ladurée, Pain de sucre or to a Kayser store.

You can simply go to the Boulangerie Patisserie next door. Try some of the best local specialities: Pain Tradition, Croissants, Eclair au Chocolat, Paris Brest and Macarons.

Stohrer pastry shop

Stohrer, the oldest pastry shop in Paris, was founded in 1730 by King Louis XV's pastry chef, Nicolas Stohrer. It has a sumptuous decor classified as Historic Monuments and is a temple of sweet and savory, where everything is made on site to offer the best of classic French pastry, including Rum babas invented by Nicolas Stohrer.

Pâtisserie Viennoise pastry shop

Absolutely nothing has changed in fifty years.

Located near La Sorbonne University, La pâtisserie Viennoise is a tiny pastry shop with a decrepit exterior serving delicious Austrian pastries such as the sachertorte, the apfelstrudel and the poppy seed cake. At lunchtime, they serve hot dishes, sandwiches and salads in a small room.

La pâtisserie Viennoise is crowded, especially at lunchtime. A must-go place for anyone passing through the left bank, very popular with students and tourists. Map.

Gourmet chocolate stores

JadisetGourmande: favorite chocolate store. Close to Champs-Elysées. 49 bis avenue Franklin Roosevelt 75008, tel + 33 (0)1 42 25 06 04. Web site. Map.

La maison du chocolat: large choice. Many stores. 225 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, 75008, tel + 33 (0)1 42 27 39 44. Web site. Map.

Patrick Roger: trendy chocolate store. Famous for his chocolate sculptures. High end. 108 boulevard Saint-Germain 75006. Tel: + 33 (0)1 43 29 38 42. Web site. Map.

Georges Larnicol: close to Patrick Roger. Another trendy chocolate store. High end. 132 boulevard Saint-Germain 75006. Tel: + 33 (0)1 43 26 39 38. Web site. Map.

Foucher: we love their Art Nouveau chocolate boxes. 134 rue du Bac 75007. Tel: + 33 (0)1 45 44 05 57. Web site. Map.

Tea rooms

Tea time is an English tradition that is honored in the city. Ladurée and Mariage Frères are quite famous.

Ladurée: best macaroons, tea room

Mariage Frères: best teas.

Berthillon: ice creams.

Pierre Hermé macaroons

Pierre Hermé is world famous for his macaroons, small cakes whose body is formed of two biscuits with almond powder and the heart a scented cream.

A sweetness that Pierre Hermé, who began his career at 14 years with Gaston Lenôtre, in 1976, before joining Fauchon a few years later, did not like at first. "I thought it was too sweet," he says. "What made me want to work the macaroon is that there was not much choice, just coffee, chocolate, vanilla. There was really a field of creativity to explore."

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