Venues similar to Maison Aleph

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.