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Un Dimanche à Paris offers numerous tempting opportunities to eat, drink, taste, and even to learn to cook with, chocolate. The artfully imagined and designed complex includes a shop, a restaurant/café, a state-of-the-art demonstration kitchen, and a relaxing bar-lounge.
You can also buy
numerous “chocolate accessories.” Choose from the many luscious jars
of creative or classic caramel sauces
Moving beyond the shop,
Un Dimanche à Paris continues to explore the concept of eating and drinking fine
chocolate. There is an open kitchen where you can watch chefs
creating patisserie and
On the second level you will find a state-of-the-art teaching kitchen that offers classes in making chocolate patisserie. There is also a comfortably hip lounge and bar area where drinks are crafted individually to your taste and often include a hint of chocolate. Then, there is the wall… in a perfect marriage
of traditional and contemporary design,
Un Dimanche
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complex of things-chocolate
is located right in the heart of St. Germain des Pres on the
historic pedestrianized Cour du Commerce. This is a glorious destination for those
with even the tiniest interest in all-things-chocolate.
The shop offers a wide selection of premium chocolates and
chocolate patisserie. If you prefer to drink your chocolate,
be sure to try a small tasting-cup of the decadently rich chocolat chaud.
It is beyond fabulous.
(including one made with
goat-milk butter). Other temptations for crafting one’s own dreamy
chocolate desserts include single-origin chocolate tablets from all
over the chocolate-producing world, packets of edible gold leaf or
bits of crépes dentelles that add crispy flavor notes to
sundaes, cakes or pastries. The packaging is cleanly elegant, making
for stellar gifts for oneself or for fortunate chocolate-loving
friends.
cakes for sale in the shop and for
their restaurant/cafe. There is an attractive dining room with an
enticing “Degustation Menu” where you can enjoy serious gourmet
cuisine, each dish inflected with a subtle flavor-note of carefully
matched single-origin chocolate. In the afternoons you can settle in
for a pot of that decadent chocolat chaud or one of twenty
plus fine teas and a selection of delectable patisserie. The
restaurant also serves lunch daily and brunch on weekends.
à Paris incorporates and highlights an intact multi-story column from the
13th century Philippe Auguste walls that once encircled the
then-small city straddling the Seine. The wall is artfully worked
into the complex’s design, providing a stunning architectural
center-point for this establishment that carefully honors tradition
while being utterly contemporary. As the mission statement says “L’Art
du vivre Autour du Chocolat”. Definitely worth a visit.