Venues similar to Cédric Grolet Opéra

Marais chocolatier with a tea room, millefeuille made à la minute, possibly Paris's finest caramels.

1927 Trocadéro tea-room, marble tables, white aprons, view across to the Tower.

Sartre and Beauvoir's corner of Boulevard Saint-Germain since 1887.

The other Saint-Germain café, with the better view of the church.

Classical French pâtisserie under the Pyramides arcades, tea room facing the Tuileries

Former Hugo & Victor relaunched under the chef's name, 2003 French Dessert Champion's first eponymous boutique

Gaston Lenôtre's flagship since 1957, the Plaine Monceau room that taught a generation of French pastry chefs

Belle Époque salon de thé since 1903, Mont-Blanc and chocolat l'Africain under the rue de Rivoli arcades

Robert Linxe's original chocolate boutique since 1977, the room that defined Paris bean-to-praline

Meilleur Ouvrier de France 2000 chocolatier, the Madeleine flagship with the life-size chocolate sculptures

Alain Ducasse's bean-to-bar manufacture in the 11e, Nicolas Berger's atelier behind a cobbled courtyard

France's oldest tea house since 1854, the Bourg-Tibourg flagship with the colonial-era painted casks

Paris's oldest artisanal coffee roaster, since 1880, still on the same Saint-Honoré sidewalk.

The 7e roastery that started Paris's specialty-coffee third wave in 2011.

Paris's oldest pâtisserie since 1730, Louis XV's pastry chef's listed shop on rue Montorgueil

The original 1862 Ladurée tea room, the room that invented the Paris salon de thé.

Paris's oldest covered market, since 1615, 21 stalls, all of lunchtime Marais, on one block.

The cult sandwich stall inside Marché des Enfants Rouges, 30-minute queue, 13.50€, no apologies.

Myriam Sabet's Levantine pâtisserie, kadaïf 1001-feuilles that Istanbul visitors instinctively recognise.

The Picasso of pastry, in his original Saint-Germain showcase.