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Paris Bakery Tasting Walking Tour

Paris Bakery Tasting Audio Walking Tour

Seven Paris bakeries from the Opéra to the Marais: a Cédric Grolet croissant, Stohrer's rum baba, two prize baguettes and Poilâne sourdough.

5.2 km walk1 h 13 walking7 stopsFrom Cédric Grolet Opéra to Poilâne Marais20 min of storiesEnglish
$16.99
  • 7 stops and 20 minutes of stories, told as you reach each place
  • The intro and stop 1 are free in the app: try before you buy
  • Download before you go; the audio plays without signal (the street map needs a connection)
  • Walking with friends? Pick 1 to 10 seats; everyone hears each stop on their own phone, at the same moment
Hear stop 1
30 seconds of the real narration

Plays in the free Walk With Me app on iPhone and Android.

What you'll taste, and what it costs

Bought at each counter as you go; prices are typical and not included in the tour.

StopTypical spend
1. Cédric Grolet OpéraFamous for fruit-shaped pastries; for this walk, order the butter croissant.€4–5
3. StohrerOrder the baba au rhum; puits d'amour or religieuse if you skip rum.€6–7.50
4. La ParisienneA baguette de tradition, the style that won the prize; tear off the heel.€1.30–1.60
5. Du Pain et des IdéesPain des amis, the signature loaf, or a chocolate-pistachio escargot or apple chausson.€5–7
6. Boulangerie UtopieThe baguette de tradition, to taste against the 2025 winner.€1.30–1.60
7. Poilâne MaraisA slice of the round sourdough miche and a bag of punitions sablés.€8–15

Budget for the tastings

€26–38for 6 tastings, on top of the tour. Share them and it halves.

About this tour

A Paris bakery is a neighborhood thing, and you only feel that on foot: the queue at the Opéra, the old pastry shop on its street, the prize-winners tucked into ordinary corners of the 10th and 11th. Walking also earns you the next tasting. If you still have appetite for more, three detours are worth another day. Ladurée's original 1862 shop at 16 rue Royale has a tea room upstairs; the macaron is much older than the house, which credits Pierre Desfontaines only with its double-shell, filled version. Poilâne's first shop on rue du Cherche-Midi is closed on Sundays. And Fournil Didot holds the 2026 crown. When you're done, open the Walk With Me live map to find other people out walking Paris right now.

The route

5.2 km in walking order from Cédric Grolet Opéra to Poilâne Marais. Stop 1 is free in the app.

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  1. 1Cédric Grolet OpéraCédric Grolet's bakery on avenue de l'Opéra, and the croissant's best-known origin story put to the test.€4–5 to taste
  2. 2Zang's Viennese Bakery siteAn ordinary building on rue de Richelieu that once held an Austrian officer's bakery, and the crescent roll's real arrival in Paris.
  3. 3StohrerA pastry house on rue Montorgueil founded in 1730, with painted panels of disputed authorship and a royal legend behind its rum baba.€6–7.50 to taste
  4. 4La ParisienneA neighborhood bakery that won Paris's best-baguette prize in 2025, and the 1993 law behind the word tradition.€1.30–1.60 to taste
  5. 5Du Pain et des IdéesA bakery in an 1875 shop with painted glass ceilings, run by a baker who came to the trade late.€5–7 to taste
  6. 6Boulangerie UtopieA younger bakery in the 11th that won the 2024 baguette prize, and what UNESCO actually listed in 2022.€1.30–1.60 to taste
  7. 7Poilâne MaraisThe Marais shop of a 1932 family bakery that sells no baguettes, and the three generations behind its big round loaf.€8–15 to taste

Before you go

  • The walking alone takes about 73 minutes for 5.2 kilometers, all on city pavements.
  • With queues and tastings, give it a full morning.
  • The nearest Metro stations to the start are Pyramides, on lines 7 and 14, and Opéra, on lines 3, 7 and 8, a few minutes up the avenue.
  • You finish near Filles du Calvaire or Saint-Sébastien Froissart, both on line 8.
  • Pick your day with care, because this walk only works from Wednesday to Friday.

Toilets and water

16 toilets near the route, 16 free14 drinking fountains

Is it for you?

Good ifYou love bread and pastry, want the stories behind what you eat, and can go on a Wednesday, Thursday or Friday morning.
Maybe not ifYou avoid gluten or nuts, or can only go at the weekend or on a Monday or Tuesday, when key stops are closed.

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By Yahya, founder of Walk With Me · Written · How we write

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