La Pâtisserie des Rêves – Paris Brest

I was settling the bill after an excellent coffee at cafe Coutume. I said “I am heading to La Pâtisserie des Rêves for their Paris Brest again.”

“That place is out of control.” That was the reply.

Paris Brest

Rêves has been awarded the best Paris Brest for three consecutive years. This mind blowing dessert was originally created to help fuel cyclists on the 1200 km Paris to Brest race. It is essentially a choux pastry filled with praline cream, shaped into a wheel shape. The idea might have came from modifying an eclair into the shape of a wheel. The version from Rêves is made of 6 connected choux pastry, filled with a hazel nut (?maybe almonds too) praline cream. Under the cream is a think liquid coulant of chocolate and hazel nut that taste quite like Nutella. What makes this one taste so good is no doubt the richness of the cream, filled with unmissable hazel nut power. The cream had a ‘bite’ to it – dense from the nuts blended through it.

I went twice because I ate the first one before I could take a photo. The shop is beautiful too. The selection of pastry is displayed under glass domes. When you have decided, the staff will go behind the counter and retrieve the individual pastry from their optimum storage condition.

Store design reflected in their website

Look only. They will retrieve your purchase from the back where each dessert is stored optimally

If one ever made it back to my apartment, I will cut it up properly