Bear 🐻 loves doing galette research every January. Early Saturday morning we went to find the Best Galette des Rois (King’s Cake) in Ile de France according to the soc of Boulangeries. I’ve done it before. Its always an adventure visiting the hinterlands of Paris where few tourists venture, me included.
La Fabrique aux Gourmandises is in the further reaches of the 14th. Its an excellent boulangerie. The line was short at 9:30 am. Much longer when we came out.
Bear made a big study.
The winning boulangerie gets to keep the smaller cup. The grand trophy cup is passed on to next year’s galette winner. The golden winning decal stays forever on the window or on roof. La Fabrique won best croissant in 2019 (see facade shot).
These feves are unusual (the hidden porcelain charm in each galette) - portraits of the boulangerie chefs.
It’s very unusual to get a feve and a crown with the smaller size galette. It was instant love when Bear saw Cyril Lignac’s little bear charms. Guess who gave in to 🐻.
Back home a stop in Boulanger de la Tour to taste test galettes.
Outside, the street cleaning guy was ‘leché vitrine’ de la Tour’s pastry window. I said,”they’re good aren’t they?” He said, “j’aime le tartelette citron ❤️“ I said I preferred Pierre Hermé’tarte, “plus de citron.” He said, “trop sucrée ici?” I nodded yes. I asked, “ever tasted de la Tour’s viennoisserie? Jamais. Stay here” I ran inside to get him a Pain aux raisin (the best in the city imho).
The last 4 days I’ve been eating, Sketching and painting galettes. And putting a bird on them 🐦 Back to finishing the December map💌📮 XOXO 🐻😃