01Monday
Paris-Brest
Praline cream, toasted hazelnut, one ring.
- Price
- €7
- Counter
- 14:00 to 19:00
- Note
- The shape is a bicycle wheel. It was made in 1910 for the Paris to Brest race.
Six on the shelf, refilled from the back
Friday/on the slate
Saint-Honoré
Puff base, a ring of caramelised choux, cream.
One choux pastry, made this morning, sold until it runs out. There is no second thing.
07:30 slate up€814:00 gone
Six on the shelf at a time, refilled from the back. When the batch is out, the door shuts, whatever the clock says.
Today at the counterThe week
Seven bays, one object each. The same six pastries on the shelf every morning, and the same empty shelf by the afternoon.
02Tuesday
Religieuse
Two choux, coffee, a collar of buttercream.
- Price
- €6.50
- Counter
- 07:30 to 14:00
- Note
- First made in 1856 on boulevard Montmartre, ten minutes downhill from here.
Six on the shelf, refilled from the back
03Wednesday
Chouquettes
Pearl sugar, nothing inside. Weighed into a paper cone.
- Price
- €3.50 a cone
- Counter
- 07:30 to 14:00
- Note
- The cone is folded from the blue waxed paper, same as everything else.
Six on the shelf, refilled from the back
04Thursday
Éclair
One flavour. Never chocolate twice in a month.
- Price
- €6
- Counter
- 07:30 to 14:00
- Note
- Which flavour goes up on the slate at half past seven, not before.
Six on the shelf, refilled from the back
05FridayOn the slate
Saint-Honoré
Puff base, a ring of caramelised choux, cream.
- Price
- €8
- Counter
- 07:30 to 14:00
- Note
- Named after the street it was invented on, in 1847.
Six on the shelf, refilled from the back
06Saturday
Odile's choice
Whatever she feels like making. Chalked at 7am.
- Price
- Chalked in the morning
- Counter
- 07:30 to 14:00
- Note
- The slate is the only place Saturday is ever written down.
Six on the shelf, refilled from the back
07Sunday
Closed
Closed. The next slate goes up on Monday afternoon.
- Price
- Chalked in the morning
- Counter
- Closed
- Note
- Back Monday at two, with the Paris-Brest.
Six empty places, all day
The blue paper
Everything leaves the shop wrapped in the same blue. One colour, one weight, no bag.
It is the only part of the shop that ever goes outside.
Notre-Dame-de-Lorettethe bottom
the market end
84 rue des Martyrsthe shop
Abbessesthe top
Rue des Martyrs
Paris 9e, running up towards Montmartre.
885metres
The street runs 885 metres and rises the whole way. Most people are advised to start at the top and walk down. The shop is up near the top, on the steep part.
≈200shops
Around two hundred shops and restaurants over that half mile. It has been a food street for a long time, and a lot of it still closes on Mondays.
IIIecentury
Saint Denis, the first bishop of Paris, was beheaded on this hill. The legend has him picking up his head and walking north. Martyrs for the street, Montmartre for the hill above it.
The bench
Odile Brivet
Odile Brivet spent nine years on the entremets bench at a grande maison.
She opened this shop in 2019 to do the opposite of variety.
Now she makes one choux pastry a day and sells it until it runs out.
There is no case full of options: one vitrine, six at a time, refilled from the back.
The counter
- Tuesday to Saturday
- 07:30 to 14:00
- Monday
- 14:00 to 19:00
- Sunday
- Closed
The slate goes up when the batch comes out of the oven. Once the vitrine is empty the door shuts, whatever the time says.
Write to the shop
Leave a note
There is no telephone in the shop. A large order, a question about Saturday, anything else: it comes here and Odile reads it after the counter closes.