01
Rubis du Matin
Raspberry mirror, rose geranium, vanilla mille-feuille.
8,40 €18 made
Paris XI · Rue du Chemin Vert
Before Paris
wakes, butter
learns to fly.
At five in the morning, the city is blue and our marble is gold. One turn, one chill, one last patient fold.
Watch the dough become 81 layers ↓Anatomy of a morning
The lamination
Scroll to work the sheeter. Each turn triples the strata; the fourth opens into a honeycombed shell.
3
layers
Tour simple · I
A détrempe · 4°C
B beurre sec · 7 mm
C alveoli · final proof
keep folding ↓
The glass case · 05:16
This morning's
small architecture
Made in the basement, finished at street level. Every piece is numbered; when the chalk mark disappears, so does breakfast.
02
Dôme Sicilien
Pistachio praline, orange blossom, crisp feuillantine.
7,90 €24 made
03
Chausson Brûlé
Reinette apple, buckwheat caramel, smoked salt.
5,80 €32 made
04
Éclair Café Noisette
Ethiopian coffee cream, hazelnut gianduja, cocoa nib.
6,90 €20 made
The pocket laboratory
Laminate
your own
Flake is a negotiation: more butter brings tenderness; more turns bring fracture. Adjust the dough card and see what the oven predicts.
House formula28% butter · 4 turns · 81 layers
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3 layers81243
Predicted flake
Cathedral crumb
Tall alveoli, audible shell, a clean buttery finish.
Night into morning
La fournée
№ 071
Six hours before the bell above the door, baker Amélie Roussel listens for temperature, elasticity and silence.
The détrempe
Flour from Viron, spring water and levain meet for precisely six minutes. Dough temperature: 21.8°C.
Butter locked in
A 7 mm plaque of Isigny butter disappears inside the dough. The marble reads 12°C; the room smells faintly of hazelnut.
Four measured turns
3 becomes 9, then 27, then 81. Twenty minutes of cold rest separates every pass through the sheeter.
Proof in the quiet
Shaped crescents rise at 26°C and 78% humidity. A fingertip leaves an impression that returns slowly.
The first lacquer
Egg wash catches the oven light. At 198°C the water in each butter seam turns to steam—and the layers lift.
Paris gets breakfast
The shutter rises. Twelve still-warm croissants meet the marble; the first regular is already at the glass.
“You cannot hurry a layer.
You can only make room
for it to rise.”
— Amélie Roussel, tourière & founder
Come before it is gone
Meet us
at first light.
14, rue du Chemin Vert75011 Paris · Métro Bréguet–Sabin
- Tuesday—Friday
- 05:00—13:00
- Saturday—Sunday
- 06:00—14:00
- Monday
- The dough rests
No reservations. Whole viennoiserie boxes may be ordered 48 hours ahead at bonjour@maisonfeuilletee.fr.