Best Baguette in Paris
They take their bread seriously in Paris so it’ll come as no surprise to learn that every March there’s a contest to find the best baguette in Paris - Concours pour la Meilleure Baguette de Paris.
This year the proud winner was Arnaud Delmontel - apparently it took a while for him to accept the good news, when he first heard the announcement he thought it was a prank. But it was true and he can look forward to a bumper year. In the same way movie producers expect a boost in ticket sales following a win at the Oscars Arnaud is highly likely to see lots of new customers lining up outside his boulangerie.
The icing on the cake, the creamy butter on his baguette is that the winner gets to provide bread to the President at the Elysees Palace for a whole year.
Try one yourself, see if you can taste the difference. Monsieur Delmontel owns two boulangeries one on rue des Martyrs the other on rue Damrémont, both in the 18th arrondissement.
Bonne Baguette!