Maison Aleph

Maison Aleph is the project of Syrian-French pastry chef Myriam Sabet, born in Aleppo, trained in classical French pâtisserie. Her '1001 feuilles' — golden filo nests built around fragrant dried-fruit creams in flavours like Iranian pistachio with orange blossom, walnut with cinnamon, sesame with halva — are a contemporary translation of baklawa rather than an imitation. The Marais boutique on rue de la Verrerie is a small, deliberately quiet space; pastries are sold by the piece or boxed. For the Istanbullu visitor, Maison Aleph is the rare Paris pastry counter where the reference points — kadaïf, mahlep, mastic, the Levantine reading of chocolate — feel native rather than translated.