{"id":1681,"date":"2013-08-12T23:17:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T21:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2013-08-12T23:26:44","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T21:26:44","slug":"pierre-herme-boutique-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/pastry-shops\/pierre-herme-boutique-nice","title":{"rendered":"Pierre Herm\u00e9 Boutique @ Nice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/france-nice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1682\" alt=\"france-nice\" src=\"http:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/france-nice.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/france-nice.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/france-nice-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday I had the chance to go to <strong>Nice<\/strong> for some shopping, but of course it was just a ridiculous excuse to visit the <strong>boutique of Pierre Herm\u00e9<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"il_fi\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lexpress.fr\/medias\/185\/pierre-herme_200.jpg\" width=\"605\" height=\"292\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t know him yet, <strong>Pierre Herm\u00e9 is the king of macarons<\/strong> and an esteemed French <strong>p\u00e2tissier<\/strong>, known to be perfectionist and <strong>scientific<\/strong> in its approach to <strong>pastry<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4031.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1684\" alt=\"Place Massena - Nice\" src=\"http:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4031.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4031.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4031-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>Right in the amazing <strong>main square of Nice, Place Massena<\/strong>, you can find the <strong>Galeries Lafayette<\/strong>, a shopping center where <strong>Pierre Herm\u00e9 has its own corner<\/strong> of <strong>macarons<\/strong> and chocolates (mainly). <strong>No cakes unfortunately<\/strong>, you have to go to Paris for that <em>(but I&#8217;ve<a title=\"Field trip to Paris: Pierre Herm\u00e9\" href=\"http:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/pastry-shops\/field-trip-to-paris-pierre-herme\"> already done that<\/a> in the past)<\/em>! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nice-Place-Massena-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1685\" alt=\"Nice - Place Massena 02\" src=\"http:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nice-Place-Massena-02.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nice-Place-Massena-02.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nice-Place-Massena-02-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>It is a relatively small stand but it had <strong>everything I needed: macarons<\/strong>! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pierre-Herm\u00e9-Macarons-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1686\" alt=\"Pierre Herm\u00e9 - Macarons - 01\" src=\"http:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pierre-Herm\u00e9-Macarons-01.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pierre-Herm\u00e9-Macarons-01.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pierre-Herm\u00e9-Macarons-01-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>It was the second time I tasted <strong>Pierre Herm\u00e9&#8217;s macarons<\/strong>, and I must admit they are<strong> one level above the others<\/strong>. They are generous and they explode in your mouth with a <strong>stunning mix of different flavours<\/strong> at each bite.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well, also the prices are a bit above the average! 1,90\u20ac for ONE macaron, but he can afford that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pierre-Herm\u00e9-Macarons-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1687\" alt=\"Pierre Herm\u00e9 - Macarons - 03\" src=\"http:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pierre-Herm\u00e9-Macarons-03.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pierre-Herm\u00e9-Macarons-03.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pierre-Herm\u00e9-Macarons-03-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My Sunday treat was a set of <strong>Salted caramel, Chocolate, Apricot &amp; Pistachio, Rose and Jasmin macarons<\/strong>, plus the creation of the month, &#8220;<strong>Andalusian garden<\/strong>&#8220;, made of a <strong>tangerine and olive oil cream with a red fruit compote<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pierre-Herm\u00e9-Macarons-04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1688\" alt=\"Pierre Herm\u00e9 - Macarons - 04\" src=\"http:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pierre-Herm\u00e9-Macarons-04.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pierre-Herm\u00e9-Macarons-04.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pierre-Herm\u00e9-Macarons-04-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>Pierre Herm\u00e9 only has <strong>shops <\/strong>in Nantes and Nice <strong>outside of the Parisian region<\/strong> (excluding those in the London and in Japan). His corner in Galeries Lafayette is therefore an almost <strong>unique opportunity to taste his creations<\/strong> if you live far from Paris!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pierre Herm\u00e9 Paris<\/strong> <em>@ Galeries Lafayette<\/em><br \/>\n6, Avenue Jean M\u00e9decin<br \/>\nNice &#8211; France<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday I had the chance to go to Nice for some shopping, but of course it was just a ridiculous excuse to visit the boutique of Pierre Herm\u00e9. For those who don&#8217;t know him yet, Pierre Herm\u00e9 is the king of macarons and an esteemed French p\u00e2tissier, known to be perfectionist and scientific in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[271,155,11,663,210],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pastry-shops","tag-best-in-town","tag-france","tag-nice","tag-pastry-shops","tag-pierre-herme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}