Venues similar to Ladurée Paris Royale

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

Yann Couvreur's first patisserie since May 2016, the original room with the fox-mark logo

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

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

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

A turn-of-the-century café preserved without irony, zinc bar, red banquettes, all-day terrace.

The Australian-style breakfast counter that taught Paris to queue for pancakes, and serve them well.

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

Japanese-precision French classical pâtisserie on avenue de Breteuil, Saint-Honoré as the benchmark

Cyril Lignac and Benoît Couvrand's original 11e patisserie, the Equinoxe was born here

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

Paris's oldest pâtisserie since 1730, Louis XV's pastry chef's listed shop on rue Montorgueil

Mickaël Benichou's 2013 patisserie-boulangerie, painted-ceiling 19th-century shop, marble counter heaped with bread

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

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

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

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

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