A wonderful new discovery was Confiture Parisienne, where we stopped for lunch. I had a fabulous plat du jour - a warm salad of chicken, hazelnuts, mushrooms, rice, spinach, sprouts and a tiny pot of sauce to add, reminiscent of an Indian butter chicken sauce. Brent had a croque salade maison, a toasted brioche triple-decker sandwich of smoked mozzarella and tomato jam. Both dishes were scrumptious!
The café is centred around a glassed room containing cauldrons and other apparatus for jam making, and the basis of the business is their confiture (jam) and gelée (jelly - the kind you have with cheese). Think ... Châtaine Poire - pear, chestnut and tonka bean jam, or Or Noir - Tunisian dates and lemon jam. And you can taste test them all! Each product can be taken home in a beautifully packaged ceramic jar.
This business was created by two women, based on an idea they had, over a shared meal, that they wanted to make an exceptional jam, as beautiful from the outside as delicious from the inside. One of the partners is fascinated by new tastes and had previously run a restaurant in Berlin; the other is passionate about ceramics and culinary history. Together they undertook "jam-master training", registered with the French Chamber of Trades and Craft, and Confiture Parisienne was born!
I love these kind of stories, and the inspiration they generate ... everything is possible!
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