Gourmet Walks of Paris
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French Baguettes
The baguette is a descendant of the bread developed in Vienna in the mid-19th century when steam ovens were first brought into use, helping to make possible the crisp crust and the white crumb pitted with holes that still distinguish the modern baguette. Long loaves had been made for some time but in October 1920 a law prevented bakers from working before 4am, making it impossible to make the traditional, often round loaf in time for customers' breakfasts. The slender baguette solved the problem because it could be prepared and baked much more rapidly.
Baguettes are closely connected to France and especially to Paris, though they are made around the world. In France, not all long loaves are baguettes; for example, a short loaf is a batard, a standard thicker stick is a flute (also known in the United States as a parisienne), and a thinner loaf is a ficelle. (French breads are also made in forms such as a miche, which is a large pan loaf, and a boule, which is a round loaf similar to some peasant breads.)
Baguettes, either relatively short single-serving size or cut from a longer loaf, are very often used for sandwiches (usually of the submarine sandwich type, but also panini); sandwich-sized loaves are sometimes known as demi-baguettes, tiers, or sometimes "Rudi rolls". Baguettes are often sliced and served with pate or cheeses. As part of the traditional continental breakfast in France, slices of baguette are spread with jam and dunked in bowls of coffee or hot chocolate
.Madame Figaro voted Best Baguette in Paris for 2009 was Jazques Bazin. He was alos voted by the Bortherhood of Brioche as makeing the best Brioche of 2009. I bought a loaf today and I can attest to how good it is. My 13 years said it was fantastic and that carries even more weight.
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A quick note to let you know that we all very much enjoyed the walking gourmet tour on Saturday morning. Muguet was fantastic, as you promised, and very knowledgeable about food and all the places we visited. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this tour and your company to others. So thanks so much and please pass our sincere thanks onto Muguet as well.
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Pastry Classes
Have fun, learn some French dishes, to taste new foods and interact with interesting people.
3 chefs give hands-on experience in English so no sitting back and just watching here.
130€pp
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Gourmet Tours of Paris - On foot or by Car
Visiting a typical Parisian market is an experience that will make your senses tingle with delight. You will make your way through a sea of booths, listening to the friendly banter of vendors as they sell their colorful mosaic of fresh fruits, vegetables, spices, meats, breads and wine. Want a taste? No problem! Join us as we take you to some of Paris's finest bakeries, butchers and cheese shops located amongst chic boutiques, famous restaurants and charming backstreets. You will taste flakey croissants, delectable pastry masterpieces, perfectly balanced chocolates, creamy cheeses, silken fois gras and more. Discover the Best Bread Paris 2007, Elysee Palace Served, 2007 Best Chocolate Maker Paris, Best Cheesemaker of the year Paris in Montmartre
These exciting gourmet tours are be led by a gastronomic experts, historians, licensed guides, chefs, restaurant critics and sommeliers who have a passion for great food. You can visit fantastic open air markets as well as indoor markets in Paris and Rungis for those who like getting up at 4am in the morning. You can visit purveyors of top quality foods, bakers, chocolate makers, and stores owned by some of the "who's who" in the gourmet food world and not only that, you can buy there.
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Chocolate Intensity
and other sweet things!
Lead by a trained pastry chef you will taste some of the best chocolate in the world. A bittersweet experience because you will be sad to leave!
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Chocolate Obsession
Type: Private Walking
Departures: Daily
Duration : 1 1/2 hrs
Code:PAR-CHO-1
Good quality bittersweet chocolate usually contains 60% to 85%. If the content of cocoa solids is high the content of sugar is low, giving a rich, intense and more or less bitter chocolate flavor. The best French brands usually contains very large amounts of cocoa solids. So on this tour remember. Don't talk - Eat"
Sweet Sensations Private Tours
Type: Private Walking
Departures: Daily
Duration : 1 1/2 hrs
Code: PAR-GMT-2
From the supplier of the Kings to modern days Maesetros. Discover some of the best artisanal choclatiers of Paris. Taste different chocolates from some of the best chocolate makers of Paris, plus macaroons and breads from the top patisseries and bakeries on the Left Bank.
Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate
Type: 2CV, Rover 75 Sedan or Electric Bike
Departures: Daily
Duration : 1 1/2 hrs
Code:PAR-2CV-GMT-1c
Description : Chocolate addicts will love this tour as we move around the city effortlessly to discover the greatest chocolate makers in the world.
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Cheese Dreams
Some people claim that there are over 1000 cheese varieties in France. I'm not sure that's true but with our cheese tasting we'll certainly introduce you to the main types cheese and their regions. Right here in Paris.
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Introduction to 10 French Cheese and Regional Beverages
Type: Restaurant Experience - Groups of 6 or less
Departures: Wednesday, Fridays or on request
Duration : 90mins
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Cost: 89€pp
Description: Join one of our favorite chefs in his restaurant close to the Gare Montparnasse station. Know for his excellent quality and regional expertise, Francois will guide you through the regions of France and pair each cheese with a typical wines, beer, and juices from the same region as the cheese.
Sample Tasting / Pairing Itinerary:
Fromage Frais: Crème crue de la Manche / Apples Juice
Fromage Caillé de Normandie / Farmer's Apple Juice
Pâte Pressée Cuite : Comté du jura / Macvin, vin muté du Jura
Persillé ou Bleu: Roquefort / moelleux Coteaux du layon
Pâte à Croute Lavée : le dauphin / Bière brune de Picardie Brasserie Maeyaert
Pâte à Croute Lavée : Mont d’or / vin de noix
Pâte à Croute Fleurie : Camembert fermier/ Cidre des Noés
Chèvre : Chevre du tarn / AOC Gamay 2001
Pâte Ppréssée Non Cuite : Tome du tarn/ Floc rouge de Gascogne Gaillac 2009
Fromage Fort: fromage fort maison affiné au calvados / vieux marc de bourgogne
"Larry, it went very well. The guide was excellent and the chef had selected great cheese and drink. A good experience for everyone. I'll contact you again if we have similar request. Exxon Mobil Executive Group October 2012 "
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Afternoon Wine & Cheese Tasting
Days Available: Friday & Saturday
Time: 4:00pm
Type: Bistro Experience - Groups will always be under 6
Duration: Approximately 1 1/2 hours
Cost : 69 Euros per person
Includes: 4 wines and Cheese.
Exludes: Transfers
Description: Join us for an introduction in French wine and cheese in a cozy Latin Quarter wine bar. Your English speaking Sommelier will guide you through four wines, as well as their regions such as Burgundy, the Loire Valley, Bordeaux and the Cote du Rhone while explaining the different families of cheeses. As you learn about each wine's flavors and aromas, you will taste a variety of delicious cheeses such as Comte, Thome, Cantal and Brebis and which wine is perfectly paired with each cheese in order to create that perfect balance. (Ref# PAR-WT3)
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Cheese Cellar Tastings with a Master Affineur
Type: Cheese Cellar Tasting
Departures: Daily
Duration : 2 hrs
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Cost: 119€pp
Description:A master 3rd generation cheese specialist , friendly and passionate about her work, proudly continues the tradition of her family.
They are combined with original and surprising flavours such as : white wine jam, olive and lemon chutney, fig chutney, gingerbread or quince paste…
These will be tasted with an exquisite selection of traditional breads and an appropriate selection of wines coming from smalls producers.
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Macaron Temptations
Visiting Paris has it's temptations. On this tour we'll take you the best makers of Macaron where you can indugle in you sweetest fantasy.
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Marie Antoinette's Temples of Temptations
Type: Private Tours by Rover 75 or 2CV or Electric Bike
Departures: Daily
Duration : 1 1/2 hrs
Code: PAR-2CV-GMT-1a
Description : It is impossible to resist the fragrant, colorful, and luscious macaron. Luscious because when you bite into the ultra thin crust and break through to the soft fluffy, squishly, brighlty,and colorful combination of egg whites and cream you can not help but think of Marie Antoinette dressed in magnificent pastel silks, eating macaroons with champagne. The Royal French antidote to low blood sugar.
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Bakers, Bread, & Baguettes
Baguettes are closely connected to France and especially to Paris, though they are made around the world. In France, not all long loaves are baguettes; for example, a short loaf is a batard, a standard thicker stick is a flute
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The Ultimate Baguette
Type: Private Tours by Rover 75 or 2CV or Electric Bike
Departures: Daily
Duration : 1 1/2hrs
Code: PAR-2CV-GMT-1b
Description : The French know how to make bread! In Paris you find famous bakers strewn across the city but on this tour we'll take you to visit some of the best and advise you what to buy
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Market & Food Shops
We'll take you on a quinessential market and food in the most famous and picturesque part of Paris. Choose form 2, 3, or 4 hour private tours.
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Type: Private Walking
Departures: Tuesday to Saturday
Duration : 2 hrs or 3 hrs
Gourmet Secrets of Marche Aligre
Code: PAR-GMT-2
We have carefully selected some of the finest markets, bakeries, cheese, wine, located near the covered Marche Aligre built in 1779.
Optional: After your tour you will be dropped off for lunch at a local cooking school where you will be served a full meal with wine and discover what French Professional students can cook under the watchful eye of a a MasterChef.
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Best of the Best in Saint Germain
Code: PAR-GMT-2
We’ll visit stores you may not have heard of but in the Gourmet world they are “Stars” In addition Your will get the best restaurant suggestions History of Food in France Learn what to buy and what not to buy How to read the label and more!!! " "Join us on a discovery of the best gourmet suppliers in the fascinating area of St. Germain. Visit the supplier to Joel Robechon and Helen Darouze. Imagine Basque cheese with cherry jam, Porc Basque, Raisins in Sauterne or covered in chocolate, Almonds dipped in red pepper chocolate and possibly a tasting of the real Balsamic Vinegar, and see the oldest cafe in France".
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Market Visit and Picnic in the Latin Quarter
Code: PAR-GMT-2
"This exciting gourmet tour will be led by a food expert will show you a selection of top quality food stores owned by some of the who’s who in the gourmet food world and not only that, what the best things to buy there are. In addition, after the tour you will be able to have a picnic and eat some of these delicious delectables.
On the tour you will visit the most picturesque markets of the Latin Quarter. We will focus on cheese from the “Meilleur Ouvrier de France”, bread from a leading bread maker, foie gras, wine, pastry, Rilette de Goose, chocolate from an upcoming young chef and fruit of the season. The quality of the shops and the artisans is outstanding.
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Gourmet Secrets of Montmartre
Code: PAR-GMT-2
We visit one of the top Affineuse of Paris to buy 5 varieties of cheeses to a baker who has won the prize of the best baguette of Paris in 2007 and also named the best patissier of Paris.
Here we visit the brick oven "fournil" for about 10 minutes with one of the artisan bakers. We have to buy some fantastic bread and pastry and visit next door to the Meilleur Ouvrier de France patissier of 2007, to buy macaroons and chocolate.
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Gourmet Secrets of rue Cler
Code: PAR-GMT-2
We have carefully selected some of the finest markets, bakeries, cheese, wine, and chocolate stores located on the Market Street of rue Cler near the Eiffel Tower.
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Gourmet Secrets of Ile St Louis
Code: PAR-GMT-2
You will taste flakey croissants, delectable pastry masterpieces, perfectly balanced chocolates, creamy cheeses, silken fois gras and more. We have carefully selected some of the finest markets, bakeries, cheese, wine, located near Notre Dame and the Marais.
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Bakers, Bread, & Baguettes
Baguettes are closely connected to France and especially to Paris, though they are made around the world. In France, not all long loaves are baguettes; for example, a short loaf is a batard, a standard thicker stick is a flute
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The Ultimate Baguette
Type: Private Tours by Rover 75 or 2CV or Electric Bike
Departures: Daily
Duration : 1 1/2hrs
Code: PAR-GMT-1b
Description : The French know how to make bread! In Paris you find famous bakers strewn across the city but on this tour we'll take you to visit some of the best and advise you what to buy
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Gourmet Explorer
Boldly go where no tourist has gone...
Enjoy discovering some of the best gourmet stores in Paris that most tourists don't get to have this experience due to the distances between them. Now you can with our driver guides.
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Markets & Gourmet
Type: Private Tours by Rover 75 or 2CV or Electric Bike
Departures: Tuesday through Saturday
Time: 9:30am OR 2:00pm
Duration : 3 hrs
Cost: 2 people: 130€pp 3 people: 90€pp
Description: Visiting a typical Parisian market is an experience that will make your senses tingle with delight. You will make your way through a sea of booths, listening to the friendly banter of vendors as they sell their colorful mosaic of fresh fruits, vegetables, spices, meats, breads and wine. Want a taste? No problem! Join us as we take you to some of Paris's finest bakeries, butchers and cheese shops located amongst chic boutiques, famous restaurants and charming backstreets. You will taste flakey croissants, delectable pastry masterpieces, perfectly balanced chocolates, creamy cheeses, silken fois gras and more.
We have carefully selected some of the finest markets, bakeries, cheese, wine, and chocolate stores in each route.
Routes & Highlights:
Option 1. Western Tour - Eiffel Tower/Trocadero/Passy (Ref# P-GMT4).
Option 2. Eastern Tour - Via Duct des Arts/ covered market of Marche Aligre.
(Ref# P-GMT5).
Option 3. Northern Tour - Montmarte/Batignolles/the Nouvelle Atahnes (home to George Sand, Chopin's love) (Ref# P-GMT6).
Option 4. Left Bank Tour- Isle St. Louis (Ref#P-GMT7).
Option 5. Right Bank Tour - Isle St. Louis/Madeleine/ Louvre /Marais
(Ref#P-GMT8).
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Early Morning Tour to Rungis
Type: Private Tours by Minivan
Departures: Daily
Duration : 5 hrs
Code: PAR-GMT-
That's right folks! So set your alarms for 4:00am because at 4:30am your driver guide will show up in the lobby of your hotel to take you on a culinary adventure
No market in the world has such a large and rich variety of fresh products. Fish, meat, cheess, fruite, vegtables and flowers are delivered daily to this 232 hectare market by 26,000 vehicles.
Our gastronomique expert will show you some of the specialties which have contributed for France's reputation in gastronomy. You will learn about French gastronmy traditions and culture righ where Paris' chefs and gastronomy sellers come to buy.
After the visit you will have a typical French meal of cooked meat, bread, cheese and wine in one of the best restaurants at the market.
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Dinner with a Food Critic
Only in Paris!
Enjoy lunch or dinner with our experienced food critic while participating in tantalizing conversation on everything food.
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Become a Restaurant Critic in Paris
Type: Restaurant Experience
Available Days: Lunch: Tue to Sun Dinner: Mon-Wed-Sat-Sun
Time: Lunch: 11:30am Dinner: 7:30pm
Duration : 2 1/2 - 3 hrs
Cost: 150 Euros per group up to 4 people + cost of the meal.
Cost of Meal:
Lunch: 25-35 Euros pp. Code PAR-GMT
Classic Dinner: 50-60 Euros pp. Code PAR-GMT
Semi-Gastro Dinner: 60-80 Euros pp. Code PAR-GMT
* Reviewer's meal and drink at client's expense.
Description: Paris is considered to be one of the world's culinary epicenters. And while the city is studded with cafes, gastronomic bistros and Michelin star restaurants, the choice of where to dine is daunting. If you don't know the city, speak French, or have the misfortune of encountering rude service, your meal can be ruined. Have no fear! Our Adventures in French Food Experience is the solution. We'll take you beyond the cliches and ensure that your dining experience is memorable and filled with great culinary stories to take home with you.
During the dinner, you will discuss fascinating topics such as the art of creating a menu, how to choose your meal and wine, the importance of local produce, what role each member of the restaurant plays, how a professional kitchen works and more!
Step 1: Select day, lunch or dinner and classic or semi gastronomic option (and let us know of any food allergies or dislikes).
Step 2: Your experienced reviewer/guide will select an independently / family owned Restaurants located in any one of the 20 arrondissement of Paris based on their perceived authenticity, ambiance, quality of food, and service.
Step 3. Meet your guide and start your afternoon or evening with a 1 hour walk around the local neighborhood. During your lunch/dinner, you will be able to discuss a wide variety of topics pertaining to food and learn how to review what you eat just like a food critic.
