Venues similar to Jacques Genin

The trompe-l'oeil fruit pastries you've seen on Instagram — boutique and salon

Myriam Sabet's Levantine pâtisserie — kadaïf 1001-feuilles that Istanbul visitors instinctively recognise.

1927 Trocadéro tea-room — marble tables, white aprons, view across to the Tower.

Robert Linxe's original chocolate boutique since 1977 — the room that defined Paris bean-to-praline

Emmanuel Ryon — MOF glacier, Pastry World Champion — turns gelato into Marais grand cru.

Classical French pâtisserie under the Pyramides arcades — tea room facing the Tuileries

France's oldest tea house since 1854 — the Bourg-Tibourg flagship with the colonial-era painted casks

Sartre and Beauvoir's corner of Boulevard Saint-Germain since 1887.

The other Saint-Germain café, with the better view of the church.

Former Hugo & Victor relaunched under the chef's name — 2003 French Dessert Champion's first eponymous boutique

Japanese-French pâtisserie since 2001 — matcha, yuzu and black sesame on classical French structures

Gaston Lenôtre's flagship since 1957 — the Plaine Monceau room that taught a generation of French pastry chefs

Belle Époque salon de thé since 1903 — Mont-Blanc and chocolat l'Africain under the rue de Rivoli arcades

Meilleur Ouvrier de France 2000 chocolatier — the Madeleine flagship with the life-size chocolate sculptures

Alain Ducasse's bean-to-bar manufacture in the 11e — Nicolas Berger's atelier behind a cobbled courtyard

Paris's oldest chocolate shop since 1800 — Marie Antoinette's chemist's listed boutique on rue des Saints-Pères

Paris's oldest covered market, since 1615 — 21 stalls, all of lunchtime Marais, on one block.

The cult sandwich stall inside Marché des Enfants Rouges — 30-minute queue, 13.50€, no apologies.

The Île Saint-Louis institution Gault Millau crowned in 1961 — still family-run, still the standard.

Marais épicerie-fine + restaurant — Delphine Plisson's Dean & DeLuca answer for Paris.