Plans for Fete des Rois?

[menton1]

Anybody doing some good partying for the Fete? Any good ideas and tales about the galette? Don't forget to tell us who got the fève!

[John Talbott]

This probably reveals my dead palate, but this Epiphany and always, I cannot recall a bad one, even from my local nothing of a baker. And Colette's mound of feves keeps growing.

[olivierb]

Had a good one at Le Quartier du Pain (Frédéric Lalos, two shops in the 15th, one in the 14th and one in Boulogne), by the way.

[Parigi]

Had a Seurre one, this afternoon, heated, with a cup of Anqi Tieguanyin. Byzance.

[menton1]

http://www.thepariskitchen.com/index....

[menton1]

Is this what they term a "thread hijack?"

[souphie]

Yep.

[menton1]

So, who got crowned yesterday? Any good parties?

[souphie]

My new favourite is Bosson, on bd Blanqui at the corner of rue Barrault. Their galette is truly awesome, as is their bread, as are their viennese pastry. Nothing fancy, but for me, perfection. Their bread are almost all organic and all 100% pure natural sourdough (which is important and rare enough to mention).

But I totally second Pichard and Seurre. And I want to try Des Gateaux et du Pain.

[olivierb]

Is it safe to go to Bosson on a Sunday morning (safe as in: not wait for hours only to discover there's nothing left) when there also is the market? I still have to try the charcutier you and Delucacheesemonger rave about too, thought I might as well do both at the same time.
Or maybe I won't wait that long.

[souphie]

The charcutier may be 30m away from the bakery, both will be there tomorrow morning too. Sunday morning is OK, as long as you don't mean 1pm (though I never actually tried at that time).

[kikisakura]

Soup, I'm sure Bosson isn't a fictitios place but I can't find it on the google map even using the street view. Now, before I send someone out there in the freezing cold weather, I'd love the exact adddress. xoxo

[olivierb]

I guess the name is La Tartine 73 Boulevard Auguste Blanqui.

[kikisakura]

Thanks Olivier. I spotted La Tartine on google street view but didn't make a connection between that and Bosson. I guess I'm slow...

[souphie]

Anthony Bosson has only been here a few months. It might be that this bakery was called La Tartine, the address matches. It really wasn't good then.

But Kiki, when I tell you it's a bakery at the corner of Barrault and Blanqui, you really can't miss it. Trust me this one time.

Bout you guys are right: I need to add it on Google Maps.

[olivierb]

Not even 30 and already rambling: go to Pichard to buy your galette on the street, straight from the oven.

[Parigi]

As soon as I get over this cramp-inducing cough, - which I never will, - I am sooooo going to run up the street to Seurre to get a buttery galette des rois and do a Napoleon maybe.
(Statistically I do seem to get the fève uncannily often.)
Olivier, do you mean Picard? Do you possibly mean Picard? Excuse me, I won't speak to you any more.
And what are you doing, Menton? Does Menton - the town - have a ritual - as with the lemons - about eating the galette? Is someone elected the Alpha or sth?

[olivierb]

No, I really meant Pichard, the rue Cambronne baker! Never seen a Picard with ovens outside of the store!

I still have to try Seure...

[Parigi]

OK Olivier, i'm back talking to you.

[souphie]

Speaking of Menton, don't they have different kind of galettes downthere in the south? Basically brioche with fruits?

[tmso]

It's pretty much a pandoro/brioche crown with fruits on top (in Pce generally, I can't speak for Menton in particular)