Aux Merveilleux de Fred
Bakery — Quartier De Javel (Paris)
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Aux Merveilleux de Fred is an iconic Parisian pastry shop founded by Frédéric Vaucamp, celebrating the culinary traditions of Northern France. Specializing in merveilleux - delicate creations of meringue and whipped cream - the boutique offers cakes inspired by 18th-century society. Each merveilleux - Merveilleux, Incroyable, Impensable - tells a delicious story, prepared before customers' eyes in an elegant setting with a bohemian chandelier and marble tiling. Beyond merveilleux, the pastry shop also offers traditional cramiques (brioche) with raisins, chocolate, and sugar. With over 20 boutiques in Paris and an international presence, Aux Merveilleux de Fred has become a culinary institution that combines artisanal tradition with sweet spectacle.
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Aux Merveilleux de Fred Paris, France - Bakery Review | Condé Nast Traveler
One of several Parisian outposts of the famous Lille patisserie, this shop specializes in merveilleux, mounds of coated meringue * * Café/Bakery Let’s start with scale. Where are we between global flagship and neighborhood boutique? One of several Parisian outposts of the famous Lille patisserie, this shop matches the look and feel of all others, with a sleek black facade, counters and display cases in Alicante marble, a bohemian crystal chandelier, beige marble floor tiling with tiny black cabochons, and murals and frescoes inspired by 18th-century art, and where you can watch merveilleux being made. Excellent! What can we find here, or what should we look for? It's all about the merveilleux here, a specialty from Northern France: an airy, layered meringue mound coated with sweet whipped cream and enveloped in a variety of coatings, from chocolate flakes to caramelized hazelnuts. Excellent brioche is also available, but it takes second fiddle to the merveilleux. Who else shops here? Neighborhood regulars and pastry tourists galore. * Hotel Hôtel Barrière Le Fouquet's $$$ | France, Paris, 46 Av. George V When it comes to Paris hotels, the suites are as roomy as they come. Powered By: Expedia * Hotel Hotel Edouard VII $$ | France, Paris, 39 Av. de l'Opéra Powered By: Booking.com * Hotel Fauchon l'Hôtel Paris $$$ | France, Paris, 4 Bd Malesherbes Powered By: Expedia * Hotel Hôtel Grand Powers $$ | France, Paris, 52 Rue François 1er Powered By: Expedia * Hotel J.K. Place Paris $$$ | France, Paris, 82 Rue de Lille The first overseas outpost of the famed Italian brand does Parisian-chic effortlessly. Powered By: Booking.com * Hotel The James $$$ | Italy, Florence, Via di Mezzo, 20 For travelers seeking comfort, convenience, and design-forward luxury, The James is the city’s newest must-stay. Powered By: Booking.com Read More
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La galette des rois Aux Merveilleux de Fred x Eric Bompard : des pulls en cachemire à la clé !
L'Épiphanie 2024 vous réserve des surprises à commencer par la galette (des rois) flamande de Aux Merveilleux de Fred. La pâtisserie aux origines nordistes s'associe cette année à Eric Bompard, marque de mode spécialisée dans le cachemire, pour dissimuler des fèves gagnantes, vous offrant la chance de remporter un pull jusqu'au 31 janvier 2024. À shopper dès maintenant dans les boutiques Aux Merveilleux de Fred ! Succombez à la délicieuse tentation de l'Épiphanie 2024 avec Aux Merveilleux de Fred et sa version de la galette des rois, une recette exquise, typique du Nord de la France : la galette flamande. Cette année, la pâtisserie aux origines nordistes célèbre la tradition avec une pointe de tendance, en s'associant à la célèbre marque spécialiste du cachemire, Eric Bompard. > Aux Merveilleux de Fred, les pâtisseries belges ultra-gourmandes qui ont séduit Paris > Aux Merveilleux de Fred, c'est cette pâtisserie artisanale qui a fleuri aux quatre coins de Paris. Dans ces adresses signées Frédéric Vaucamps, on découvre Le Merveilleux, cette spécialité belge qui se décline ici en plusieurs recettes, ainsi que des cramiques, des pains briochés au raisin, au chocolat ou au sucre. [Lire la suite] La galette des rois Aux Merveilleux de Fred x Eric Bompard marie habilement une brioche tendre et moelleuse à une crème mousseline généreuse, le tout sublimé par une pluie de sucre glace. Résultat, une harmonie de saveurs et de textures ultra-gourmandes, disponible dès maintenant dans les boutiques Aux Merveilleux de Fred. * À lire aussi * Les bons plans de cette semaine à Paris et en Ile-de-France, du 3 au 9 novembre 2025 Mais ce n'est pas tout ! Certains exemplaires de cette galette renferment des fèves gagnantes, vous offrant la chance de remporter un pull en cachemire griffé Eric Bompard. Une belle occasion cde combiner plaisir sucré et coup de cœur mode jusqu'au 31 janvier 2024 ! (Re)découvrez cette recette au goût simple et inimitable, et, qui sait, vous décrocherez peut-être le gros lot !
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Guide to Aux Merveilleux de Fred in Paris
Aux Merveilleux de Fred is one of the most glittery cake shops in Paris. All the boutiques look alike, from the signature chandelier to the extra sweet meringue cream cakes being prepared on show from the window as a constant, delicious spectacle. AUX MERVEILLEUX DE FRED SPREADING ITS CAKES AROUND PARIS I first wrote about Aux Merveilleux in 2012, after the first Paris cake shop opened in the 16th (not far from my office of 10 years). By then there were already 3 shops open in Paris. Fast forward to 2025 and there are a staggering 20 boutiques, deliciously 'spread' around the City, including in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Nobody seems to mind queuing (unusual for France, I know!) simply because the spectacle of preparing the cakes are hypnotising in the window. There's also over 30 around France - and many more opening up around Europe, with about 20 stores total from New York, Toronto to Tokyo. WHO IS FRED OF LES MERVEILLEUX? Fred is Frédéric Vaucamp, who started out in Northern France as a pastry chef apprentice at 14 and in 1982 opened his first traditional pâtisserie in Hazebrouck in Flanders. By 1995 he opened his first Merveilleux de Fred shop in Lille's historical quarter. From then on, his lighter re-invention of the Merveilleux cake literally spread like hotcakes! Today, with its doors always open and wafts of brioche coming from the oven, it's not difficult to be lured in to this chandelier-clinking bakery. WHY 'LES MERVEILLEUX'? SOME HISTORY Merveilleux cakes were popular cream-coated meringue confections in the 18th century in Northern France and Flanders. So, how did they get their name? After the French Revolution, the Directory Regime (1796-1799) helped high society pick up elegance again. Self-confident women, known as les Merveilleuses, dressed in antique clothes. They were often humid, figure-hugging and transparent (oh-là-là!), frequenting the first fashionable tea rooms, concert halls and theatres. They'd be seen with Les Incroyables, effiminate young people who's mission was to seek pleasure. Then the cakes were turned into a masculine name, Les Merveilleux. WHAT ARE THE MERVEILLEUX CAKES? None of the names have the descriptions on them in the shops. I guess as customers, we're supposed to know them already! Each sweet meringue cake comes in large, individual or mini, and each take a theme from 18th Century French society: * The Merveilleux: meringue, chocolate whipped cream and rolled in chocolate shavings; * The Incroyable: cinnamon lovers will love the speculoos cream coated meringue and rolled in white chocolate shavings; * The Impensable (Unthinkable) with its crispy creamy coffee meringue is our family favourite, without the little blog of Chantilly cream; * Sans-Culottes - meaning "without breeches or pants" - referring to the common people who largely took part in the French Revolution. This is whipped cream with caramel and rolled in crystallised meringue; * The Magnifique: meringue, praline whipped cream, rolled in almond chips and caramelised hazelnuts (mini only); * The Excentrique: those that like a cherry in their cake. BEST EXAMPLE OF HOW TO WINDOW SHOP IN FRANCE - LICKING WINDOWS! Merveilleux meringue and cream cakes are freshly prepared directly at the window, a particularity of each shop. This is perhaps the best example of how to window shop in France: in French, it's called 'faire du lèche-vitrine': literally to do some window-licking! It's not just the chocolate-flaked meringue cakes. Prepared in front of the customer are les gaufres fourrées (vanilla and rum waffles from Lille). Meanwhile, stacks of brioches stand in front of the ovens, ready to be baked. FRED'S CRAMIQUES OR BRIOCHES Moreover, Fred took the traditional small raisin-filled Kramiek (Flemish) brioche from Flanders and added his own marvellous touch to the Cramiques. You'll find 3 different flavours: the traditional Cramique with juicy raisins, plain studded with over-sized sugar pearls, plus the chocolate cramique - generously studded with dark chocolate chips. Grab one and keep it for breakfast. Personally I prefer buying these as they're not as sweet as the Merveilleux cakes. What's more, check out their cute logo. I find the silhouette couple so beautifully chic that I keep their boxes to re-cycle them for my homemade macarons. As they don't make macarons, it doesn't look like I'm passing their cakes off as my own! So, what kind of Merveilleux are you? Marvellous, Incredible or Unthinkable? Aux Merveilleux de Fred Paris All open Monday-Sunday 24 rue du Pont Louis-Philippe, 75004 (near Centre Pompidou) 2 rue Monge, 75005 94 rue Saint-Dominique, 75007 (see more pastry shops and tea rooms on this street) 29 rue de l'Annonciation (just off rue de Passy), 75016 (near Musée Marmottan Monet) Place Louis Armand, Galerie des Fresques, 75012 (Gare de Lyon) 12 Place d'Aligre, 75012 23 rue Daguerre, 75014 (Montparnasse) 129 bis, rue Saint Charles, 75015 7 rue de Tocqueville, 75017 This post is not sponsored in any way. Originally published 9th January 2012. Text/images update to reflect the new boutiques in Paris. 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