My favorite crepe restaurant in the Marais and perhaps in all of Paris is Breizh. Serving authentic Brittany style crepes made with buckwheat flour along with apple cider, Breizh is considered the best crepe houses in Paris by many critics.
The problem with Breizh is they don’t take reservations and if you go at regular lunch and dinner hours, there’s always a wait. I am not one to wait on line, so I rarely go to Breizh anymore. I’ve been looking for a replacement and I’ve finally found a creperie that comes close.
Although the name can be misleading, La Cidrerie du Marais/The Marais cider house not only has an extensive selection of cider, it also serves high quality buckwheat crepes.
Best of all La Cidrerie du Marais is right across the street from my house and is very rarely full. Quaint and inviting, it has the feel of a creperie in Brittany with light wood planked walls decorated with kitschy signs and cute blackboard menus.
There’s a nice lunch formule during the week, a crepe with three fillings of your choice or the crepe du jour plus a drink for 10€.
I’m one of those people that once I find a dish at a restaurant I like, I tend to be a creature of habit and only order that dish. At La Cidrerie du Marais I get a crepe with fried egg, chevre and roasted potatoes. Folded into a square with the egg yolk bulls eye in the center, the chevre is roasted and the potatoes are crispy and the crepe comes as close to comfort food as you can get.
I’ve tasted other crepes in the past before I got attached to egg, potato and chevre including smoked salmon, crème fraiche and dill, chevre, honey and walnuts and the extravagant foie gras with fig jam and pine nuts.
Caramel sauce with caramel ice cream with praline, chestnut cream and crème fraiche, pear with whipped cream and chocolate syrup, and sliced apples with Calvados, vanilla ice cream and whipped cream are just a few of the fillings of the tempting dessert crepes.
The cider list is divided into two categories, hard and soft with old fashioned, artisanal, pear, and red fruit cider in bottles and also cider bowls of rosé and pear.
There’s only one waitress and she’s very sweet and speaks English.
A salted butter caramel comes with the check, a sweet ending.
La Cidrerie du Marais
4 rue de Sevigne, 75004
Metro: Saint Paul
Open 12PM-11PM daily
Many thanks to everyone who identified the flowers and trees from my Jardin des pLantes post on Tuesday.
Here are the names in the order of the question marks. poppies, salvia, and the last one is Mountain laurel.
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Has your lovely waitress worked at the Favorita before? She would be Polish and has indeed a very friendly, smiley and open personality!
I love galettes, crêpes and cidre.... Do them myself too.
Posted by: Kiki | May 18, 2017 at 05:00 PM