🇫🇷 Paris
Stohrer
Founded in 1730 by Nicolas Stohrer, pastry chef to the exiled Polish king Stanisław Leszczyński. When the king found his kouglof too dry, Stohrer soaked it in sweet wine and the baba au rhum was born.
The oldest pâtisserie in Paris, open continuously since 1730, and a 30-second walk from the apartment on Rue Montorgueil. The gilded 1864 interior (painted by a student of the artist who did the Opéra Garnier ceiling) is a listed historic monument, so it is worth stepping inside even just to look.
It is most famous for the baba au rhum, which the shop invented, but the case is full of other classics: the Ali Baba, the religieuse, the puits d'amour, and seasonal fruit tarts. There are no seats; the move is to grab a box and find a bench or take it back to the apartment.
Open every day, so it slots into any of our Paris mornings.