Le Salon des champagnes et des Patisseries Fines au Pavillon Ledoyen

Sunday, Monday was a lovely repeat performance at the two-day Salon des Champagnes et des Patisseries Fine at Pavillon Ledoyen. Top pastry chef Nina Métayer demoed her version of a

Cherry  cloufouti while everyone tasted flights from 27 Champagne houses.

This year was different. Entry was 10-15€

Children enter free. Tiny tastebuds need training.

An exquisite lunch was available at a reasonable 15€. And you could buy fabulous desserts if you missed out on the mini demonstration samples.

I had a ringside seat next to the pastry station.

No dessert went untasted after 4 days of abstaining in Cannes.

This is not a chunk of coal. But Yuzu ice cream 'enrobed' in dark chocolate chunks created by Ledoyen's fab pastry chef, Aurélien Rivoire.

Brut Rosé was the summer flavor of the day at Le Salon des champagnes et des Patisseries Fines

I had half a glass of 🥂 sparkling Delavenne, a house situated in Bouzy between Reims and Epernay. Did you know the US buys the largest quantities of 🍾Champagne? But only large brand names dominate. This is why attending a tasting at Le Salon des champagnes et des Patisseries Fines can be so informing. Meeting the Champagne makers of small houses is a delight. And yes they speak English. 

There are 2,000.000 bubbles/bulles in each glass of Champagne? And 60,000,000 bubbles in a 🍾 bottle. No wonder the French love ❤️ bubbles so much.

I painted this bottle from Joseph PerrierFilsetCo. Its an homage to the original owners' daughter, Josephine. Would you like your name or another personalized on the bottle? You can find it on Etsy. Please be like the French. Plan ahead. Book your vacance for early July next year. Come say hello at my painting station. This Sunday soirée, Le Salon des champagnes et des Patisseries Fines  is one of the best I've been to in Paris. I'll be waiting for you 😄 Thanks for reading Parisbreakfasts. Feel free to share. If you'd like a personalized🍾champagne watercolor or Paris letters let me know🥂🍾🍒. Love❤️ from Carolg 🥂 in Paris

Le Salon des Champagnes et des Patisserie Fines

Last May I did a cover illustration for an upcoming Champagne 🍾 & Pastry tasting, SALON DES CHAMPAGNES ET DES PATISSERIES FINES on 8,9 July at PAVILLON LEDOYEN. When SOLLI emailed me a photo of my art in metro Gare St Lazar this morning, I fell off my chair 🪑 Whoa!

On the way to a dentist appointment, I jumped off the train. This is every artist's dream!

Yes I signed it.

3-star Michelin restaurant, PAVILLON LEDOYEN is behind Petit Palais 8, avenue Dutuit, 75008

It’s Paris' oldest restaurant. Former clients included Robespierre, Danton and Marat.

Since 2014 top Chef Yannick Alleno, previously at Le Meurice, has reinvisioned Ledoyen. Now considered one of Paris' top 10 restaurants, the cuisine is noted for complexity and finesse.

Of course there will be oddles of bubbly 🍾 to try.

12 superb top Paris pastry chefs

They will create magic at pastry stations in the tasting area at Ledoyen.

Marie-Aurore called and asked if I'd like to dream up a new cover for the  july Champagne tasting brochure. I scribbled ✏️ some doodles on the Metro. M-A picked the exploding bottle 🍾

A later stage study of exploding bubbles

M-A asked if I would like to taste a dessert before leaving. 

Why not?

We squeeze into chef Aurélien Rivoire's tiny pastry kitchen. 

The sous chefs are racing around on a tear.

                                 Chef Rivoire concocts

Stalks of rhubarbe encrusted in sugar flakes

An exquisite dessert dusted with beet sugar and a dollop of rice ice cream!

A second dessert appeared. Two bites to be tasted together in one mouthful for the full effect.

A third dessert appeared, a giant chocolate 🍫 orangette. 

Preserved orange peel enrobed in the darkest chocolate with a bit of gold leaf. 

This orangette came home with me. 

If you're in Paris July 8 - 9 please come to the 🍾 tasting. 

I plan to attend. Meanwhile I'll be sleeping in metro stations admiring my handiwork. 

Cheers 🥂