Considering your neighborhood baker to be the best baguette maker in the world - and bragging about it to your friends! - is a typically Parisian local sport... which the Marais Mood team happily indulges in.
It must be said that Benjamin Turker's baguette presents a very remarkable relationship between the crunchiness of the crust and the aeration of the crumb. It is therefore no coincidence that this owner of two bakeries, located at 134, rue de Turenne and 59, rue de Saintonge, regularly receives awards.
In 2009, just two years after opening his first address, he came 2nd in the city of Paris' traditional baguette competition organized by the bakers' union, a venerable institution founded in 1801. Three years later, in 2012, he was 9th and in 2014, 3rd. His croissant won 2nd prize in 2013 and 1st in 2015.
The trade secret of this former management controller turned baker? Let the bread dough rise for twenty-four hours before baking it, instead of around three hours in most bakeries. For ten years, the success of this job creator (his business employs twenty-five people) has been constant. At the end of April, this elite artisan will once again participate in the traditional baguette competition. The bets are open.
UNE LITTLE HUNGRY ?
Divine brunch at the foot of Notre-Dame
Of course, officially, it is not the Marais. But at Son de la Terre, a barge recently moored at the Montebello quay (5th), the 4th arrondissement is in sight. Moreover, this one is incredible: on one side, it is Notre-Dame flooded with sunlight; on the other, the quays, the book sellers, the walkers, the joggers.
The Enfants Rouges market, everyone loves it
Restaurants, merchants, a photo store, a bookstore... This is how the Red Children's Market presents itself, unique in its kind in the Marais and its capital because it is the only one to offer such a varied and varied range of restaurants. qualitative.
Piccola Mia, the pizzas of the Republic
On the Place de la République, a brasserie with Italian accents has just opened, which quickly made people forget the old Pizza Pino. Welcome to Piccola Mia, the fruit of the joyful encounter between Italian chef Denny Imbroisi, pizza chef Julien Serri and mixologist Matthias Giroud who creates a creative cocktail menu.
NOW ON
THE MOOD MARSH
Millet, from the mountains to the Marais
From the top of this outdoor and technical clothing store, a hundred years of family history gaze down upon you. Created in 1921 in Chamonix, the Millet brand is still managed by the family of the same name. It is therefore a bit of French heritage and know-how that arrives from the Alps to settle in the Marais…
Divine brunch at the foot of Notre-Dame
Of course, officially, it is not the Marais. But at Son de la Terre, a barge recently moored at the Montebello quay (5th), the 4th arrondissement is in sight. Moreover, this one is incredible: on one side, it is Notre-Dame flooded with sunlight; on the other, the quays, the book sellers, the walkers, the joggers.
Saka, a cocktail bar like in Tokyo
Here is an address which gives the measure of the transformation of the Marais. And it's enough to silence the grumpy people whose mantra is: “It was better before…” No, everything was not better “before” in the Marais. Besides, there was no American bar like Saka, which cultivates a form of excellence that can only be found in Japan.