Les Deux Abeilles 🐝 with Jill Colonna

 

Yesterday I met up with Jill of Mad About Macarons fame at Les Deux Abeilles 🐝 Have you been?

For afternoon tea 🫖 again.

Me ‘leche les vitrine’/admiring the goodies. 

For once I am early! 🤸‍♂️I brought along a sketchbook ✏️to doodle just in case. I’m working on my ADHD 🤔 

Jill peruses the tea menu & orders us Jasmine tea (a Green tea 🍵).

Jill has a special post on the Best tea rooms in Paris- a must read.

I, of course, pick up the heavy iron teapot & immediately drop it on to the table with a loud PLONK! Embarrassing 🙈 Has this happened to you?

Jill, could you please 🙏 do a post on tea salon etiquette ☕️

Do you remember the exquisite exhibit on Thé, Café ou Chocolat at musée Cognacq-Jay? 

Speaking of tea salons…you may be in dire need of a Parisian tea salon map non? 

What did we eat? I had a crumble aux poires et fruits rouges (pronounce that cRoom-bell in French). 

Jill had tarte aux poires. We have yet to decipher the meaning of the knife & fork 🍴 arrangement. Do you know? Both tartes were unctuous & delicious 👍 

I thought Jill might have a recipe for tarte aux poires…instead I found Bourdaloue Pear Tart. The tart's definition, "drowned in a vanilla frangipane cream". But who knew it was also traditionally covered in broken macarons? I’m salivating. 

Meanwhile I’m looking at the big framed 🖼️ photos on display and thinking, Why couldn’t I paint giant cups & saucers ☕️? 

Meanwhile Jill is holding up the new Paris letter- all cups. 

On Etsy now 👏 and in la Poste 📬 

A  parting glance at the sumptuous side board…should I have gotten chocolate gateaux 🤔 No! Tonite is Salon du Chocolat 🍫 opening!🤸‍♂️👏 

We saunter out into the Paris drizzle. 

Where should we have tea ☕️ next dear PBers?

                  What’s your favorite Paris tea salon?