Venues similar to Poilâne

Best Baguette de Paris 2024 winner — sourdough, charcoal-black tradition, and weekend croissant programme

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

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

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

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

Christophe Vasseur's 1875-listed bakery on rue Yves Toudic — pain des amis, escargots, no shortcuts.

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

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

Paris's oldest artisanal coffee roaster — since 1880, still on the same Saint-Honoré sidewalk.

The 7e roastery that started Paris's specialty-coffee third wave in 2011.

The Picasso of pastry, in his original Saint-Germain showcase.

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

The original 1862 Ladurée tea room — the room that invented the Paris salon de thé.

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

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

Marais chocolatier with a tea room — millefeuille made à la minute, possibly Paris's finest caramels.

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

Alsatian choucroute, landmarked Art Nouveau, the Académiciens' lunch.

Hemingway's table, a piano bar, and the steak that bears his name.