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Paris Pastry & Chocolate Tour: Macarons, Crepes & Secret Passages
Bite into Paris’s sweet side with award-winning pain au chocolat, silky chocolate, delicate macarons and a salted-caramel crêpe. Choose a 2.5-hour small-group walk or a 3.5-hour private experience with extra discoveries and personal attention. Explore glass-roofed passages, savor Le Valentin’s handmade pâtisserie and taste PLAQ’s bean-to-bar chocolate. Between bites, your guide reveals the stories behind French sweet traditions and Paris’s beautiful shopping arcades. Taste the Paris you’ll crav
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Overview
- ✓Bite into Paris’s sweet side with award-winning pain au chocolat, silky chocolate, delicate macarons and a salted-caramel crêpe.
- ✓Choose a 2.5-hour small-group walk or a 3.5-hour private experience with extra discoveries and personal attention.
- ✓Explore glass-roofed passages, savor Le Valentin’s handmade pâtisserie and taste PLAQ’s bean-to-bar chocolate.
- ✓Between bites, your guide reveals the stories behind French sweet traditions and Paris’s beautiful shopping arcades.
- ✓Taste the Paris you’ll crave back home.
Bite into Paris’s sweet side with award-winning pain au chocolat, silky chocolate, delicate macarons and a salted-caramel crêpe. Choose a 2.5-hour small-group walk or a 3.5-hour private experience with extra discoveries and personal attention. Explore glass-roofed passages, savor Le Valentin’s handmade pâtisserie and taste PLAQ’s bean-to-bar chocolate. Between bites, your guide reveals the stories behind French sweet traditions and Paris’s beautiful shopping arcades. Taste the Paris you’ll crave back home. Choose private for 7 food and drink tastings, including one coffee, tea or hot chocolate. Visit Stohrer, founded in 1730 by Louis XV’s pastry chef, then discover Passage du Grand-Cerf and Saint-Eustache. Enjoy personal phone-photo assistance, tailored recommendations and flexibility to adapt your pace and finish. Perfect for food lovers, couples, friends and families seeking delicious discoveries and Paris postcard moments. Venues and selections vary; sightseeing is exterior only.
Bite into Paris’s sweet side with award-winning pain au chocolat, silky chocolate, delicate macarons and a salted-caramel crêpe. Choose a 2.5-hour small-group walk or a 3.5-hour private experience with extra discoveries and personal attention. Explore glass-roofed passages, savor Le Valentin’s handmade pâtisserie and taste PLAQ’s bean-to-bar chocolate. Between bites, your guide reveals the stories behind French sweet traditions and Paris’s beautiful shopping arcades. Taste the Paris you’ll crave back home. Choose private for 7 food and drink tastings, including one coffee, tea or hot chocolate. Visit Stohrer, founded in 1730 by Louis XV’s pastry chef, then discover Passage du Grand-Cerf and Saint-Eustache. Enjoy personal phone-photo assistance, tailored recommendations and flexibility to adapt your pace and finish. Perfect for food lovers, couples, friends and families seeking delicious discoveries and Paris postcard moments. Venues and selections vary; sightseeing is exterior only.
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What’s Included
- ✓Private tour only: sip cappuccino, house hot chocolate or selected tea at Le Valentin.
- ✓Bite into Victoire’s pain au chocolat, runner-up at France’s 2024 national competition.
- ✓Private tour only: 7 food and drink tastings
- ✓An English-speaking guide shares food stories, local discoveries and recommendations.
- ✓Private tour only: finish at your chosen spot or central hotel, with route adjustments.
- ✓Private tour only: your guide helps capture memorable photographs on your phone.
- ✓Wander through Passage Verdeau, Passage Jouffroy and Passage des Panoramas.
- ✓Enjoy a salted-caramel crêpe at Le Comptoir du Commerce, paired with French cider.
- ✓Group option: enjoy 6+ food tastings and a cider pairing, with up to 12 guests.
- ✓Private tour only: personalize the experience—discuss your interests with your guide at the start.
- ✓Private tour only: explore Grand-Cerf, Saint-Eustache and Grands Boulevards façades.
- ✓Private tour only: visit Stohrer, founded in 1730 by Louis XV’s pastry chef.
- ✓Taste PLAQ’s bean-to-bar chocolate, made in its own Paris manufacture.
- ✓Sample a delicate macaron and explore the stories behind France’s sweet traditions.
- ✓Savor Le Valentin’s handmade cakes, created by chef Bruno Collard and his pastry team.
- ✓Choose a 2.5-hour small-group walk or a 3.5-hour private pastry and chocolate experience.
What’s NOT Included
- ✗Additional food and drinks beyond the included selection.
- ✗Museums admission (sightseeing visits are exterior only).
- ✗Gratuities for your guide (optional)
What to Bring
- •Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- •Service animals allowed
- •Public transportation options are available nearby
- •Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- •Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- •The group option lasts approximately 2.5 hours, with up to 12 guests. The private option lasts 3.5 hours, exclusively for your party.
- •Please arrive 10-15 minutes early for the group departure. Please wear comfortable shoes.
- •The group experience includes the supplier’s selected 6+ food tastings and cider pairing. Venues, portions and tasting order may vary.
- •The private selection includes 7 food and drink tastings: one pain au chocolat, one selected cake or pastry, 2 different chocolate samples, one sweet crêpe, one macaron and one drink of your choice.
- •Tastings may be individual items or portions from a shared selection. This is a sweet-food experience rather than a full savory meal.
- •Planned venues may be replaced with suitable alternatives because of opening hours, availability or operational changes. Seating is subject to availability.
- •Please share allergies and dietary requirements after booking. This route is unsuitable for strict gluten-free, vegan or serious nut-allergy requirements; an allergen-free environment cannot be guaranteed.
- •Vegetarian requirements should be discussed in advance, as some individual pastries contain ingredients requiring substitution.
- •Museum, theatre and church introductions are exterior only. Covered passages are entered when open.
- •Private tour only: discuss your interests with your guide at the beginning to personalize the pace, emphasis and photo opportunities within the booked duration.
- •- Private tour only: Your guide can finish at a place of your choice or your centrally located hotel, arranged in advance within the booked duration. Depending on the location, sightseeing stops may need to be shortened or replaced. Additional transport is not included.
Meeting and Pickup
🚐Meet at start point
📍 Meeting point / start
Meet your guide outside Faubourg 34, 34 Rue du Faubourg Montmartre, at the beginning of the pedestrian street. Private option: your guide will hold a sign with your name.
🏁 End point
3 Rue Bachaumont, in the Montorgueil neighborhood. Private tour only: Your guide can finish at a place of your choice or your centrally located hotel, arranged in advance within the booked duration. Sightseeing stops may need to be shortened or replaced. Additional transport is not included.
Good to know
- Guide languages
- English
- Book at least
- 1 day(s) before
- Children
- Must travel with an adult
- Ages
- Infant 0–1 · Child 2–14 · Adult 15–99
- Cancellation
- For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Tour options
- Group: 2.5-hours, 6 tastings: Group: 2.5-hours, 6 tastings: Enjoy a 2.5-hour small-group walk with 6+ food tastings, cider and beautiful covered passages. Group: 2.5-hours, 6 tastings: Discover French sweet traditions through pastries, chocolate, macarons and a salted-caramel crêpe.
- Private: 3.5-hours, 7 tastings: Private: 3.5-hours, 7 tastings: Your dedicated guide adds personal phone-photo assistance, tailored recommendations and a flexible pace and finish. Private: 3.5-hours, 7 tastings: Enjoy a 3.5-hour private experience with 7 food and drink tastings, plus extra historic discoveries.
Itinerary
20 min
A chocolate-filled beginning with a national podium finish. Start with the delicious crackle of laminated pastry and a rich chocolate center. Victoire’s Sophie Jullien took 2nd place at the 2024 national Master du Pain au Chocolat, giving your first bite a particularly impressive story. Enjoy an included pain au chocolat, or an equivalent pastry when the selection changes. Photo: your first buttery bite against a lively Parisian bakery backdrop.
10 min
Antique-shop windows beneath a luminous glass roof. Slip away from the traffic into a shopping passage dating to 1847. Antique dealers, prints and intriguing window displays reveal a quieter Paris, where browsing can feel like searching through someone’s beautifully collected memories. Photo: a Paris postcard framed by the passage’s glass canopy and old-fashioned shopfronts.
20 min
A handmade pastry pause in Paris’s sheltered shopping world. Discover a tea salon where chef Bruno Collard leads a team of 5 pastry chefs, with pastries and viennoiseries prepared on site. Enjoy a selected cake or pastry; the house’s repertoire includes coffee-and-chocolate Opéra, vanilla mille-feuille and chestnut Mont-Blanc. Private tour only: accompany your pastry with one selected drink—perhaps cappuccino, house-made Chouchou hot chocolate or fragrant Nuit à Versailles tea. Photo: a beautiful pastry, a café moment and the passage’s timeless atmosphere.
10 min
A little masterpiece of iron, glass and Parisian imagination. Opened in 1847, Jouffroy was Paris’s first passage built entirely of iron and glass. Look beyond the shop windows to its elegant structure and decorative details: this was a bold vision of modern shopping long before department stores became everyday destinations. Photo: a spontaneous strolling portrait beneath the sparkling glass roof.
10 min
Parisian entertainment before cinema and television. Dating to 1799, this atmospheric arcade takes its name from the panoramic spectacles that once drew curious crowds. Today, restaurant fronts and collectors’ shops preserve the pleasure of discovering something unexpected around the next corner. Photo: glowing restaurant signs and vintage façades in one wonderfully Parisian frame.
10 min
Chocolate with a story that begins at the cacao bean. Enter the world of bean-to-bar chocolate at this manufacture, boutique and café, established in 2019. Discover how cacao origin and chocolate-making choices create flavors far more interesting than sweetness alone. The group selection follows the supplier’s arrangement. Private tour only: compare 2 distinct chocolate samples, such as dark and milk chocolate; these count as 2 of your 6 food tastings. Photo: beautiful chocolate against the understated charm of Rue du Nil.
10 min
A little taste of Brittany in the heart of gourmet Paris. Enjoy the comforting combination of a freshly prepared salted-caramel crêpe and French cider. This neighborhood crêperie brings a regional French tradition to Montorgueil’s bustling pedestrian streets—a delicious opportunity to discover why crêpes and cider belong together. Private tour only: one sweet crêpe and one cider serving per adult are included. A selected non-alcoholic replacement can be arranged. Photo: a golden crêpe and a cheerful table moment between discoveries.
10 min
The Parisian pleasure of shopping for something delicious. Explore a street where pastry windows, food shops and café terraces turn everyday shopping into part of the city’s appeal. Discover the neighborhood habits behind the displays and leave with ideas for what to taste next. Group option: enjoy the supplier’s selected macaron stop in this area before finishing on Rue Bachaumont. The exact shop may change. Private option: continue to your included macaron at Stohrer, described below. Photo: lively food-shop fronts and an unmistakably Parisian street scene.
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Private tour only. Celebrity culture before the smartphone. Pause outside the wax museum that opened in 1882, when lifelike figures offered Parisians a remarkable way to encounter the famous faces of their time. Its theatrical entrance recalls the Grands Boulevards’ long love affair with entertainment. Photo: a playful portrait outside one of Paris’s most recognizable entertainment addresses.
5 min
An extraordinary theatre built in just 5 months. This historic stage opened on 24 June 1807, after only 5 months of construction. Discover a compact piece of Parisian showbusiness history beside the passages where audiences once browsed, dined and promenaded. Photo: a touch of theatre glamour against the historic façade.
15 min
A tiny street with a remarkable appetite. Discover why this short lane attracts serious food lovers: chocolate craftsmanship, the specialist shops of Terroirs d’Avenir and the restaurants of chef Grégory Marchand’s Frenchie sit remarkably close together. Your guide points out the details that turn a little street into a gourmet destination. Additional purchases are not included. Photo: tucked-away Paris, artisan shopfronts and your own delicious discovery.
10 min
Private tour only. A royal pastry connection dating to 1730. Discover Paris’s oldest pâtisserie, founded in 1730 by Nicolas Stohrer, pastry chef to Louis XV. Its richly decorated historic boutique gives your macaron stop a sense of occasion—and a direct connection to the city’s extraordinary pastry heritage. Enjoy one selected macaron. Hear the house’s story while admiring specialties such as its celebrated rum baba and puits d’amour; these additional pastries are not included. Photo: your macaron against a shopfront with almost 3 centuries of sweet history.
15 min
Private tour only. An almost 12-metre-high surprise. Look up: this passage’s glass roof rises approximately 11.8 metres above you. Created in 1825, its slender structure and independent boutiques create a striking contrast with the busy streets outside. Photo: one of the tour’s most beautiful perspectives, with the soaring glass canopy above you.
5 min
Private tour only. A magnificent finale beside Paris’s former market heart. Finish beside a church that took more than a century to complete: its first stone was laid in 1532, and it was consecrated in 1637. Its monumental exterior provides a memorable final contrast to the intimate pastry shops and sheltered arcades you have explored. Enjoy a final photograph and personal recommendations for continuing your Paris day. Photo: a striking Paris backdrop for your final solo, couple or family portrait.
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