Dining Experience – Ladurée Bonaparte, Paris

Ladurée Bonaparte

21 rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris

T 01 44 07 64 87

http://www.laduree.fr/v1/public_en/maisons/bonaparte_accueil.htm

I went to Paris last summer for a few days and convinced my husband to splurge a little and have breakfast at Ladurée. We went to Ladurée in Saint Germain, it was quite close to our hotel and the neighborhood is delightful, lovely shops and bistros.

You can see the entire menu from the Ladurée website. The tea room has a beautiful decoration, with Chinese motifs, beautiful wallpaper and furniture – as you would expect in a Ladurée tea room.

We ordered the Bonaparte Breakfast (EUR 27.00) which included a basket of mini viennoiseries and traditional bread with butter and jam, orange or grapefuit juice, coffee, tea or hot chocolate and a boiled egg and fresh fruit salad. It is a great brunch to start a day in Paris, specially when so much walking is involved.

The viennoiseries were perfect, one of the best pain au chocolat ever (although not as good as the Pâtisserie des Reves though – I will make a post on that soon), everything done to perfection. The only exception was the service, not as good as you would expect. It was lovely to sit there and see Parisian ladies having their breakfast together.

I highly recommend it, even if it is just to have a cup of coffee and a macaroon. You cannot go wrong with a Ladurée macaroon.