Paris 2014, Day 9 (Croissant Crawl – Part 1)

http://columbuscameragroup.com/category/used-products/35mm/ We are soooo… Bad, every night we say were going to go to bed early and get up early and we never do.  Last night we stayed up to watch The Descendants, a George Cluny movies about a dysfunctional family living in Hawaii.

Mogi Mirim The Croissant Crawl began at 1000.

The tasting: we decided to judge each croissant on Exterior Crispness, Interior flakiness and doneness and taste, the more butter the better.  The score 1-5.

The #5 on the list was here in our arrondissement, so we started there a short 400 meter walk we found Frédéric Lalos of Boulangerie des Belles Feuilles, 22 Rue des Belles Feuilles, 75016

Frédéric Lalos of Boulangerie des Belles Feuilles, 22 Rue des Belles Feuilles, 75016

Pat took photos of the exterior and I when in to purchase.  Croissants here are 1.10€

The Exterior has a nice crispness (3), the interior was flaky and

Frédéric Lalos’ Croissant

not overly moist (4) and the tasty was buttery (3).  Overall we rated this a 3 of 5.

Frédéric Lalos’ Interior – Light, not too moist

We walked back to the metro and headed to the 15th arrondissement for the #9 contender on the list.  We took the metro to Cambronne.  From

Frédéric Pichard of Boulangerie Pichard, 88 Rue Cambronne, 75015

there we had a hike 850 meter to the shop. The Frédéric Pichard of Boulangerie Pichard, 88 Rue Cambronne, 75015.

This particle baker as won multiple times; a first place in 2011 and

Frédéric Pichard’s croissant

second place in 2012.

Again, I left Pat in charge of photography and I went to purchase a croissant.  This time it was only 1 euro.

We inspected the product and gave it a 3 for the crispiness, broke it

Slightly under cooked with a dark bottom

open ind inspect the interior and then the taste. We noted that the bottom was a bit over done, not objectionable but not perfect either.  The score exterior 3, interior a 2 it was not fully cooked and the taste was a 2, it may have been higher but burnt bottom caused a lower score. Over all 2.

On ward to #4 on the list, Anthony Bosson of Boulangerie

Anthony Bosson of Boulangerie L’Essentiel 2 rue Mouffetard 75005L

L’Essentiel, on the rue Mouffetard a shopping street in the 5th which we have visited before during our early hotel days when visiting Paris.  We arrive at 1130, which is really not the prime time to be trying a croissant for competition but then it is what it

Anthony Bosson’s croissant

is.  I purchased a croissant for 1.10€ and we took it through the paces.  The croissant was excellent, and our favorite for the day, Exterior 3, interior 3+ and the taste a 4, probably would have gotten even

So far the leader in the pack

higher marks if it were earlier. Over alls 4.

Of course while I was buying – Pat was window shopping and snapped some photos of other delights. Coffee and Hot Chocolate at a local Cafe and then back to the apartment to collect our bags for a trip to the Carefour for tomorrow nights dinner Bouef Bourguignon.

Afternoon prep and then dinner at Le Relais Du Bois, to start a Portage de Legumes, Sole Meunier for Pat and you guessed it, Foie de Veau for me; a bottle of Chinon from the Luberon. Pat handed the fish like a French woman, she has arrived.

The Croissant Crawl will continues nest week, the dat to be determined.