After having opened a new restaurant on the Montorgueil side (with a nice cider cellar by the way) and then in the Batignolles, Breizh Café has now moved to the 11th arrondissement in Paris, in the heart of the Village Paul Paul, already known for its fine restaurants.
Faithful to its leitmotiv, the creperie gives pride of place to Breton products. All buckwheat pancakes, crepes, a nice selection of ciders, Bordier butter and Breton delicatessen await you on site.
At the entrance, you will find yourself at the counter with the grocery corner on the right. At the bar, the place proposes an excellent organic cider from the Cidrerie Barbé, to be tested absolutely to quench your thirst with a family cider of quality.
The room, spacious, marries industrial decoration, modern wooden furniture and large picture windows with a wall of ciders in the background to reveal the range of cuvées that open up to you. In the dining room, the open kitchen allows us to take a look at the preparations that are made before our eyes.
As a reminder, at Breizh Café, good products are a must. Thus, for their galettes, they use a homemade flour: Breizh Café labeled, certified gluten-free, stone-ground and from organic buckwheat grown in Brittany. In his Parisian galettes, Bertrand Larcher claims the good taste of buckwheat which is highlighted in the recipes, no wheat and no egg in the composition.
But to make a good galette, you need good butter of course. And what could be better than the famous Bordier butter that has been part of the house since the beginning? The place also intends to show you demonstrations of tapping and shaping of butter. Try it, you will be surprised by the difference in taste after the butter ceremony. We like the seaweed butter or the one with roasted buckwheat, to spread on crispy pancakes!
You can also discover the soft gluten-free buckwheat cakes with Bordier butter made by Mayumi, the Japanese pastry chef at the Maison du Sarrasin in Saint-Malo. Yum, the walnut and goat cheese version is delicious.
To start, we let ourselves be tempted by the amuse galettes (seaweed butter version for us) and by the Breizh crunchy with sesame tofu cream and seaweed tartar from Saint-Lunaire.
Then, each to his own cake! I let myself be tempted by the excellent Breizh Roll langoustine while my neighbor chose the Saint-Jacques version. Nothing like seasonal products!
To accompany all this, we opt for beautiful bottles of cider such as Txalaparta 2017, a Basque farm cider that is really amazing in the mouth, like a fine wine to discover.
Obviously, we finish with a gourmet dessert crepe. I stay in season by opting for the version poached pears in cider and homemade chocolate caramel with vanilla ice cream from Magagascar as a bonus.
In short, if you want to have a good time tasting real good pancakes and crepes made with good products and made according to the rules of art (Breizh Café has its school!), you now have a new address!
Location
Breizh Café Paul Bert
23 Rue Paul Bert
75011 Paris 11
Official website
breizhcafe.com
