Paris for the Holidays

Poilâne

Posted on January 6, 2018 Updated on November 9, 2020

Pain Poilâne (Bread)

Our first day in Paris, we visit our favorite boulangerie and purchase a baguette covered with seeds (Baguette aux Céréales)

Days later during our visit, we may be less inclined to make a special trip to a legendary bread store, and just pick up the packaged loaf of sliced Poilâne at the grocery store instead.
This bag of bread lasts several days – we bring the last few slices back home. When we finish the last slice back in Chicago, we are reminded why we go to Paris.

One of the reasons I moved to Paris is that I could, whenever I wanted to, go to Poilâne and buy myself a nice chunk of pain Poilâne
-David Lebovitz

Poilâne (The New Yorker)
Pain Poilâne is produced in the Latin Quarter of Paris where it is sold at the original (1932) boulangerie on rue du Cherche-Midi in Saint-Germain-des-Prés
A second Paris bakery is located on boulevard de Grenelle in the 15th arrondissement.

Lionel Poilane, The Baker (CBS Sunday Morning)

Worldwide Distribution is handled by a facility in North-Central France (Bièvres)
A facility opened 2000 in London
all have replicas of the wood-burning ovens used at the Paris locations