Warm croissants. Real coffee. Your table.
Everything is baked behind the counter and eaten best at it: viennoiserie at sunrise, sourdough toast at noon, and a corner table that has seen novels started and deals signed.
- Open 7 days from 7:30
- Specialty coffee, house syrups
- Brunch boards on weekends
flat white + croissant · €6
the morning ritual, until 10 am
The place
Between home and the office
The oven runs from five in the morning; the espresso machine joins it at seven-thirty. Between the two, the room fills with laptops, newspapers, toddlers and dogs with better manners than most of us.
Stay as long as you like. The wifi is real, the plugs work, and nobody hovers over your empty cup.
On the counter
Four reasons to come in
House favourites
What regulars order
House signatureSourdough country loaf
€4.80, the 900 g loafStone-milled flour, our own starter and twenty-four slow hours, the loaf this bakehouse is judged on.
Olive & rosemary fougasse
€3.80The bakery’s answer to an apéritif, olive oil dough, whole black olives, rosemary from the courtyard.
Baguette tradition
€1.30Flour, water, salt, yeast and time, nothing else is allowed in, by French law and by ours.
Walnut & rye loaf
€5.40, the 600 g loafDense, dark and built for cheese, whole walnuts folded into a slow rye dough.
Butter croissant
€1.40Laminated by hand with French butter, shattering outside, honeycomb inside, gone by ten.
Pain au chocolat
€1.60Two batons of dark chocolate in the same dough as our croissant, warm at seven, gone by nine.
Notes left on the counter
I moved across town and still come back every Saturday. The sourdough loaf lasts our family of four all week, and the crust is a food group of its own.
Ordered a Paris-Brest for my mother’s seventieth with two days’ notice. They called to confirm, the box was ready to the minute, and the table went quiet, the good kind of quiet.
The 7am queue tells you everything: regulars, first names, the smell of the second batch. The kouign-amann alone is worth setting a Sunday alarm for.
Best croissants within a tram ride, and I have tested this thoroughly. One star withheld until the fougasse comes out earlier, eleven o’clock is a long wait.
Hours
Open every single morning
- Every day
- 7:30 – 18:00
- Weekend brunch
- 9:00 – 14:00
- Hot batches
- 7:30 · 11:30 · 16:00
- 3 Rue du Four, city centre
- 01 23 45 67 89
Order a cake or a buffet
Birthday cakes, pièces montées, breakfast baskets and buffet boards, tell us what, for how many, and when you will pick it up.
Quicker by phone?01 23 45 67 89