Bite Me!

After a hard morning's shopping at the Rue Cler market, we stumbled across this pretty boulangerie and had to try it out.  We were actually heading to another restaurant for lunch, which turned out to be closed - well, it was 3 o'clock by the time we were hungry enough to venture out for another meal!

I went a bit mad here and bought several cakes - first up was this figue, which I was hoping would be fig-flavoured as well as fig-shaped.  Sadly it wasn't, but it was very nice, with a marzipan coating giving way to a pastry and cream centre. 

Next up was a tarte aux pistaches, which looked a bit more durable, so I decided to save it for my early Eurostar journey back the next day.  It made a lovely breakfast.

Finally, I couldn't resist a goats' cheese tart - again, I decided to save it for the next day, and ended up eating it for lunch in my office in London, in an attempt to import some of that Paris feeling to my desk. The Paris feeling failed, but the tart was scrummy.  It's a good job we don't have much of that sort of thing in London, or I'd be fat as a pig (and exceedingly poor).