Left Bank 3-Hour Small-Group Food and Wine Tasting Tour

Name: Left Bank 3-Hour Small-Group Food and Wine Tasting Tour
Brand: Tabl
SKU: H441CRR
Price: 121.00 GBP
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.5 (10 reviews)

3 hours

Group

English

What you’ll do

Nothing signifies classic French gastronomy like Paris’s Saint-Germain des-Prés neighborhood on the Left Bank. But too often, visitors find themselves stuck in the tourist track. Discover a hand-picked selection of seven food and spirits joints during this small-group, three-hour tasting tour. Highlights include pastry tips from a Michelin-starred chef, iconic French cheeses at a historic fromagerie, and a stop at one of the city’s oldest brandy shops.

Highlights

Enjoy exclusive food and drink tastings at seven hand-picked locations
Sample traditional delicacies like apple tart, baguettes, French cheese, and more
Get answers to all your burning questions from a designated group guide
Tours are capped at 12 people to ensure a personalized experience

Itinerary

It’s an institution and they’re the main bread suppliers for some of the best food shops and restaurants in Paris. Taste the finest apple tart and spoon-shaped butter cookies

Feeling Presidential? Sample cheese from one of the best cheese shops in Paris and official suppliers of cheese to the French presidents since 1970

Thierry Marx bakery is associated to the famous michelin starred chef Thierry Marx. Slip into a hidden food court to taste traditional baking from one of Paris’ most eccentric, Michelin’ starred chefs

The shop has been elected best pastry shop in Paris in 2018 and it is known for the artistry and unique and natural flavours of the pastries served here like works of art. It is a rare female French pastry chef and considered today to be one of the best pastry chefs in Paris.

Pay a special visit to to one of the oldest brandy shops in Paris to sip on Armagnac and vintage port. Wine distiller and armagnac producer since 1905. A historical shop which specialities in Armagnac, Port wine, Premiers Crus and Grands Crus wines and other rare spirits..

Yves Camdebord is considered to be a pioneer of neo bistro or bistronomy in Paris. L’Avant-Comptoir du Marché is a hotspot for all food lovers and local chefs.

Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche is the first Parisian department store or “grand magasin”, a “cathedral of modern commerce” created by Aristide Boucicaut. The interior design is the result of the work of the Moisant and Gustave Eiffel studios, who applied their latest research in terms of industrial metal architecture to Le Bon Marché, in order to create a structure that lets in light.

One of the oldest coffeehouses in Paris opened in the 1880s and a popular hub of famous writers and philosophers. Pablo Picasso, Truman Capote, Albert Camus, and Ernest Hemingway were once regular customers here.

Existentialists like Jean-Paul Sartre, surrealists like André Breton, and novelists such as James Joyce would meet regularly at the café.

Admire the Roman Catholic parish church which is the oldest church in Paris housing the burials of Frankish kings and the philosopher René Descartes.

The Hotel Lutetia is a luxury hotel and one of the best known hotels on the left bank. It was built in 1910 in the Art Nouveau style and it has hosted many famous guests over the years: Picasso and Matisse, Charles De Gaulle, Peggy Guggenheim