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20m · Admission ticket included
A chocolate-filled beginning with a national podium finish.
Start with the delicious crackle of laminated pastry and a rich chocolate center. Victoire’s Sophie Jullien took 2nd place at the 2024 national Master du Pain au Chocolat, giving your first bite a particularly impressive story.
Enjoy an included pain au chocolat, or an equivalent pastry when the selection changes.
Photo: your first buttery bite against a lively Parisian bakery backdrop.
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Passage Verdeau
10m
Antique-shop windows beneath a luminous glass roof.
Slip away from the traffic into a shopping passage dating to 1847. Antique dealers, prints and intriguing window displays reveal a quieter Paris, where browsing can feel like searching through someone’s beautifully collected memories.
Photo: a Paris postcard framed by the passage’s glass canopy and old-fashioned shopfronts.
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20m · Admission ticket included
A handmade pastry pause in Paris’s sheltered shopping world.
Discover a tea salon where chef Bruno Collard leads a team of 5 pastry chefs, with pastries and viennoiseries prepared on site. Enjoy a selected cake or pastry; the house’s repertoire includes coffee-and-chocolate Opéra, vanilla mille-feuille and chestnut Mont-Blanc.
Private tour only: accompany your pastry with one selected drink—perhaps cappuccino, house-made Chouchou hot chocolate or fragrant Nuit à Versailles tea.
Photo: a beautiful pastry, a café moment and the passage’s timeless atmosphere.
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10m
A little masterpiece of iron, glass and Parisian imagination.
Opened in 1847, Jouffroy was Paris’s first passage built entirely of iron and glass. Look beyond the shop windows to its elegant structure and decorative details: this was a bold vision of modern shopping long before department stores became everyday destinations.
Photo: a spontaneous strolling portrait beneath the sparkling glass roof.
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10m
Parisian entertainment before cinema and television.
Dating to 1799, this atmospheric arcade takes its name from the panoramic spectacles that once drew curious crowds. Today, restaurant fronts and collectors’ shops preserve the pleasure of discovering something unexpected around the next corner.
Photo: glowing restaurant signs and vintage façades in one wonderfully Parisian frame.
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10m · Admission ticket included
Chocolate with a story that begins at the cacao bean.
Enter the world of bean-to-bar chocolate at this manufacture, boutique and café, established in 2019. Discover how cacao origin and chocolate-making choices create flavors far more interesting than sweetness alone.
The group selection follows the supplier’s arrangement. Private tour only: compare 2 distinct chocolate samples, such as dark and milk chocolate; these count as 2 of your 6 food tastings.
Photo: beautiful chocolate against the understated charm of Rue du Nil.
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10m · Admission ticket included
A little taste of Brittany in the heart of gourmet Paris.
Enjoy the comforting combination of a freshly prepared salted-caramel crêpe and French cider. This neighborhood crêperie brings a regional French tradition to Montorgueil’s bustling pedestrian streets—a delicious opportunity to discover why crêpes and cider belong together.
Private tour only: one sweet crêpe and one cider serving per adult are included. A selected non-alcoholic replacement can be arranged.
Photo: a golden crêpe and a cheerful table moment between discoveries.
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10m
The Parisian pleasure of shopping for something delicious.
Explore a street where pastry windows, food shops and café terraces turn everyday shopping into part of the city’s appeal. Discover the neighborhood habits behind the displays and leave with ideas for what to taste next.
Group option: enjoy the supplier’s selected macaron stop in this area before finishing on Rue Bachaumont. The exact shop may change.
Private option: continue to your included macaron at Stohrer, described below.
Photo: lively food-shop fronts and an unmistakably Parisian street scene.
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Pass by
Private tour only.
Celebrity culture before the smartphone.
Pause outside the wax museum that opened in 1882, when lifelike figures offered Parisians a remarkable way to encounter the famous faces of their time. Its theatrical entrance recalls the Grands Boulevards’ long love affair with entertainment.
Photo: a playful portrait outside one of Paris’s most recognizable entertainment addresses.
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5m
An extraordinary theatre built in just 5 months.
This historic stage opened on 24 June 1807, after only 5 months of construction. Discover a compact piece of Parisian showbusiness history beside the passages where audiences once browsed, dined and promenaded.
Photo: a touch of theatre glamour against the historic façade.
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15m
A tiny street with a remarkable appetite.
Discover why this short lane attracts serious food lovers: chocolate craftsmanship, the specialist shops of Terroirs d’Avenir and the restaurants of chef Grégory Marchand’s Frenchie sit remarkably close together. Your guide points out the details that turn a little street into a gourmet destination.
Additional purchases are not included.
Photo: tucked-away Paris, artisan shopfronts and your own delicious discovery.
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10m · Admission ticket included
Private tour only.
A royal pastry connection dating to 1730.
Discover Paris’s oldest pâtisserie, founded in 1730 by Nicolas Stohrer, pastry chef to Louis XV. Its richly decorated historic boutique gives your macaron stop a sense of occasion—and a direct connection to the city’s extraordinary pastry heritage.
Enjoy one selected macaron. Hear the house’s story while admiring specialties such as its celebrated rum baba and puits d’amour; these additional pastries are not included.
Photo: your macaron against a shopfront with almost 3 centuries of sweet history.
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15m
Private tour only.
An almost 12-metre-high surprise.
Look up: this passage’s glass roof rises approximately 11.8 metres above you. Created in 1825, its slender structure and independent boutiques create a striking contrast with the busy streets outside.
Photo: one of the tour’s most beautiful perspectives, with the soaring glass canopy above you.
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5m
Private tour only.
A magnificent finale beside Paris’s former market heart.
Finish beside a church that took more than a century to complete: its first stone was laid in 1532, and it was consecrated in 1637. Its monumental exterior provides a memorable final contrast to the intimate pastry shops and sheltered arcades you have explored.
Enjoy a final photograph and personal recommendations for continuing your Paris day.
Photo: a striking Paris backdrop for your final solo, couple or family portrait.
