Today’s challenge as part of the Edible Advent Calendar:
Can you name this treat? Or, rather, any one of the tasty things in this shot?
Leave your answer (product/location) in the comments section below. The reader who has accumulated the most victories by December 24 will receive an edible Christmas present from me. I’ll keep your guesses hidden until the answer is revealed tomorrow on Budget Travel, then I’ll publish the comments and name the winner for this challenge.
YESTERDAY’S WINNERS: The crêpe has roused you. Full points go to Anne, Sophie, Lil, Phyllis, Kara, Sarah C, Zeva Bellel and Kelaine for naming a galette from the Breizh Café. Half a point for Karin and Adam for guessing West Country Girl. And an extra half point (1.5) to Theresa because she was dedicated (crazy?) enough to identify the particular recipe – the “Basque” – based on red flecks floating in the cream. Phyllis was also frighteningly close on that one. Well done everybody!
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Bread and lots of it from Coquelicot in Montmartre. I see pain au chocolate, pain au raisin, triangle, baguettes, ficelle, pain de compagne and something yummy and dark looking.
You’re too generous with your clues! The photo is labelled Coquelicot which must mean that it is the boulangerie/café of the same name on Rue des Abesses in Montmartre. I didn’t recognise it, but I can easily recognise a few baguettes and pain aux raisins. I know this place more from the rather kitsch deco upstairs!
The bakery is Coquelicot. The selection of goodies include baguettes (i.e. tradition, ficelle), viennoiseries (i.e. pain au chocolat, pain aux raisins, escargot and poche abricot), and bread loaves (unfortunately not too sure of the variety, be it pains au levain naturel or one of their pains speciaux).
I’m at a loss for location, but I do see: drops, pain aux raisins, baguettes, ficelles…
Z
I’ll go low-profile today: bakery Le Coquelicot, near Abbesses metro station. Treat: Picolla baguette.
i see drops (who came up with that name, by the way), pain aux raisins, ficelle, baguette tradionelle, some kind of whole wheat bread, maybe an oranais in the bottonm left corner, but alas, i don’t know where this is.
Coqueliot…I see baguettes and pain au raisins and pain au cereales…
At the Coquelicot Bakery, Montmartre. The baguettes in the background: La Reine des Baguettes, La Coquelicot, La Picolla.
Well, so I am up to one point, lol. Not bad for this *totally* non-foodie chick. This one has me totally stumped, though. I can’t eat gluten
so boulangeries are pretty much verboten in my world. That, and I read there are over 1200 boulangeries in Paris! So, I have no clue where to even begin. I looked a little online just to see what I could come up with. I note there seems to be something with letters hanging from the ceiling, ending in “ue” perhaps? I did not find any boulangeries ending with “ue” although Poilâne ends in “ne.” Hmmmm. I also know that you enjoying hanging in Belleville, your neighborhood, and I read on David Lebovitz’s site about the 140 on the Rue de Belleville, but I just don’t think this is it.
So, as they say, “Ouiiii…… mais non.” I am totally going to have to pass on this one as I have no clue.
Good luck to the others! I’m looking forward to knowing what everything could be!
It is Coquelicot, but it’s not the one on rue des Abbesses. Where is this one?
It’s the rue des Abbesses (their only location, as far as I know). That’s the view looking over a pile of bread toward the back staircase.
Hm, curious. Usually they have the Coquelicots up next to the Reines (I get my bread there every day). Maybe it used to be different.
In any case, I think there’s another Coquelicot boutique down by the rue Blanche/rue Fontaine or thereabouts. I recall seeing it once.