Léonie Bakery, the neighborhood bakery that livens up the Batignolles

Good bread with quality ingredients? That's the bet of Kamel Saci, the entrepreneur who took over the Léonie bakery in December 2019. Looking for a place to launch his business in the Batignolles district, he set his sights on this address, which had a good location, dream kitchens, but a bad reputation. He proposed to the former bakers to take over their business, and it worked!

December 2019, Léonie Bakery is back in business, with the must-haves of the neighborhood bakery, but revised in a qualitative version. For this, Kamel goes around the producers he knows. Organic flour or flour from sustainable cultivation, stone-ground andquality leavening for a well aerated bread that makes you want to eat. The beautiful presentation of the breads leaves you dreaming. We can imagine the taste of the Gascon, and the Saint-Augustin, beautiful pieces that leave in quarter or half. We threw our devotion on the Tordu du gers which will prove to be very good, sold at 1,50 the 350 gr.

As for the pastries, Léonie offers us a nice display with chocolate breads, but also cinnamon rolls, babka, Swiss breads, kouing amman and small sugar buns, in reasonable prices. Cookies, chocolate fondant, brownies, cakes and financiers finish up putting us upside down. Everything seems greedy, and what we tasted was well balanced, a real joy!

Especially since next to that, there are the desserts, including pastries. The classics, like the flan, the éclair, the Paris-Brest, the lemon pie, the pecan pie or the tropézienne, but also some rather nice revisits, including a pistachio pie, a chocolate-caramel pie, a rice pudding and a Catalan cream. Count about 6 euros for a very greedy pastry.

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And like any self-respecting neighborhood bakery, Léonie also offers homemade sandwiches made with her good bread: a veal sandwich on a baguette base at 6 euros, a pastrami sandwich on a Viennese base at 7 euros, declined in a salmon version, and more novel, in a sweet potato version at 6 euros, for the veggies. We tasted the pastrami and the sweet potato sandwich, and they are quite copious for this price, with a disconcerting lightness (perhaps to have still room for the dessert). Two daily specials are also on the menu, simple but effective, as we like them!

In short, a good address in the neighborhood, which can also boast a nice, albeit small, room. A brunch offer will be proposed soon, even if you can already get by with a nice assortment at home.