Venues similar to Du Pain et des Idées

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

Paris's oldest chocolate shop since 1800, Marie Antoinette's chemist's listed boutique on rue des Saints-Pères

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

The Saint-Germain sourdough institution since 1932.

Best Baguette de Paris 2024 winner, sourdough, charcoal-black tradition, and weekend croissant programme

1906 Art Nouveau bouillon, Mucha-style nymphs, listed monument, Édith Piaf's table.

Emmanuel Ryon, MOF glacier, Pastry World Champion, turns gelato into Marais grand cru.

The Île Saint-Louis institution Gault Millau crowned in 1961, still family-run, still the standard.

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.

The Australian-style breakfast counter that taught Paris to queue for pancakes, and serve them well.

Yann Couvreur's first patisserie since May 2016, the original room with the fox-mark logo

Mickaël Benichou's 2013 patisserie-boulangerie, painted-ceiling 19th-century shop, marble counter heaped with bread

The 1896 original, Belle Époque listed dining room, twelve euros for blanquette.

1898 Art Nouveau dining room, classified historic monument, Belle Époque bouillon revived.

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

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

The trompe-l'oeil fruit pastries you've seen on Instagram, boutique and salon

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

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