How to skip the queue for Instagrammable pastries, taste the world’s best bread, and eat at the restaurant that fed Brad Pitt. Plus the Australian restaurants that offer a Paris match. July 23, 2024 You have reached your maximum number of saved items.
Remove items from your saved list to add more. Save this article for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. As the Olympic Games start streaming into our lives, we might as well accept we’ll all be craving French food for the next two weeks.
If you’re lucky enough to be in Paris right now, we’ve rounded up the top picks from five Francophile foodies. But if France is an ocean too far, we’ve got the Aussie hit list covered, too. Grab some cheese and go for gold.
Founder and co-owner Lune Croissanterie Conquering the world one croissant at a time, Kate Reid’s entrepreneurial smarts have taken her from founding a one-person croissanterie in Melbourne to owning six stores, with two more opening in Sydney later this year. Reid trained under French pastry chef Christophe Vasseur, lived in Paris, and visits whenever she can. Top pick: “For the best pastries, I go to The French Bastards ,” says Reid, of the trailblazing boulangerie with stores scattered around Paris.
Cruffins, cronuts – if these anarchic pastry chefs can crossbreed croissants with another baked treat, they will. The latest? A one-off creation to launch their Lille outlet, featuring croissant dough cooked in a waffle machin.