Many Parisians like to meet up in the store on Montorgueil, or the one on the Carrousel du Louvre, or even the one near Printemps, to savor the delicious pastries from Café Pouchkine. Famous for its Médovic, Pavlova Mont-Blanc and " Pouchkinettes ", Café Pouchkine recently launched its savory menu, to be enjoyed at lunchtime or afterwork.
Café Pouchkine is taking on a new challenge: to open its own Flagship, a project supported by Maison Dellos. It's close to numerous Parisian palaces such as the Hôtel du Ritz and the Hôtel de Crillon that Café Pouchkine has decided to set up shop to open its new temple of gourmet delights this Thursday, November 30, 2017.
Part pastry shop, part bar, part tea room and part restaurant on 2 floors, this is what awaits you over an area of 600m2. The icing on the cake, the place also offers a view overlooking the Place de la Madeleine, a unique panorama of the neoclassical peristyle of the Eglise de la Madeleine.
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The choice of this historic location was no accident. Indeed, it was important to entrepreneur and aesthete Andrei Dellos, Moscow's creator of places with a strong personality, including the first Café Pushkin, inaugurated in 1999 to mark the bicentenary of the birth of the famous poet Alexander Pushkin. The myth became reality... Andrei Dellos's genius was to bring to life the café imagined and dreamt by Gilbert Bécaud (who came to sing in situ) in his romantic ballad, "Nathalie":
She spoke in sober sentences
Of the October Revolution
I was already thinking
That after Lenin's tomb
We'd go to the Pushkin café
To drink a chocolate
But also to have invented the legend of a place that was once the drugstore of an 18th-century pharmacist-apothecary, Friedrich Karlovich, and has become the veritable cabinet of curiosities that is the Café Pushkin!
This new Parisian Café Pushkin follows in the same spirit, cultivating a decorative epic, an intimate atmosphere and sincere, high-quality cuisine. Gone are the streamlined, monochrome, open-space cafés that are not their identity...
Each salon (of which there are 4: the Pushkin Bar and Catherine II Salon on the first floor, the Pavlovsk Salon on the second floor, and the Madeleine Salon on the second floor) has been decorated and furnished according to the cultural eclecticism of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Moscow's finest craftsmen were called in, including decorative painters, staffers, cabinetmakers and others. The antiques (chandeliers, sculptures, objets d'art) have been specially sourced by Andreï Dellos, who has taken care of every detail from inspiration to patina.
The restaurant will be open from breakfast to dinner, with a menu that changes according to the time of day. A café on the go, an aperitif on the terrace, a business lunch with the family, afternoon tea or dinner with friends or loved ones.
Le Café Pouchkine plays the luxury card here, but luxury that remains affordable, with a menu offering formulas and a wide choice of snacks.
And to offer a menu worthy of excellence, Andreï Dellos has turned to the teams of star chef Alain Ducasse. The result is a menu with a Franco-Russian accent, devised in conjunction with the Café Pushkin and DUCASSE Conseil teams.
What's on the menu? Fine cep and crayfish tart, millefeuille of mimosa herring or sturgeon in fine Aquitaine caviar jelly are all on the menu! And don't forget the simple but original snacks: salmon club blinis, a croque-madame to die for, or eggs Benedict, also on a Russian blini. Last but not least, authentic Russian dishes are an invitation to travel: borsch, beef stroganoff, pithiviers to heat up yourself with a broth or a smoked dish... And a selection of the most affordable caviars.
Of course, the sweet menu is not to be outdone. With around thirty desserts (not including ice cream sundaes), some of which are prepared in front of us, such as French toast and Russian-style crêpes suzette, the menu may well give you a hard time choosing. This famous sweet menu will evolve with the seasons and according to the inspiration of Nina Métayer, creative chef at Café Pouchkine, who was also voted pastry chef of the year 2016 by Le Chef magazine and pastry chef of the year 2017 by the Gault et Millau guide.
This autumn, we'll be tasting :
There will also be a grocer's store offering homemade tarama, smoked salmon, salmon roe, caviar, pithiviers, pirojkis and many other typical products such as malossol gherkins and vodka. So many delicacies for a themed aperitif, a dinner for two, a picnic with friends...
In short, this pastry shop-tea room-restaurant concept is sure to tempt the taste buds of the most discerning gourmets, who will be able to meet in this "flagship" to enjoy sweet and savory creations at different times of the day.
Note that this forthcoming opening of the Café Pouchkine flagship marks the starting point for its international expansion.
Practical info:
Flagship Café Pouchkine
Opening November 30, 2017
Address: 16 Place de La Madeleine, 75008 Paris
Open Monday to Sunday, 7:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Please note that it's been over 4 years since our last visit, so the place and experience may have changed.
Location
Restaurant Café Pouchkine
16 Place de la Madeleine
75008 Paris 8
Recommended age
For all
More information
Open from 7:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Opening on December 2, 2017
