Marseille, sweet-food capital

Marseille has never really had the image of a great pastry town. On the sugar side, historically, we mainly thought of the navette, this dry orange blossom cookie that has been eaten for generations. But in recent years, something has moved. New addresses, freer, sometimes regressive, sometimes very technical, have started to make the city a little paradise for sweet beaks.

Encore un morceau -The best version of the Kinder Country

At Encore un morceau, a shop located on the charming Place Saint-Eugène, Sophie grows a souvenir pastry. The symbol? Her homemade Kinder Country, handcrafted and plump version, which she calls "Country bar": thicker than the original, more intense in taste, less industrial in the idea but just as regressive in the effect. €4.50 each.

2 place Saint-Eugène, 13007 Marseille

Carlotta With - The olive oil brioche out of Christmas time 

Charlotte Crousillat took the Pompe à Huile out of her end-of-year dessert role. Nature or with chocolate, its version becomes a real obsession of countertop, soft, scented, less ceremonial than a thirteen desserts and easier to swallow all year round. In fact, a real shop is set to open soon on the Corniche. The new babka? Maybe so.

84 boulevard Vauban, 13006 Marseille

Ciao Amore - La gelateria italienne, version Marseille

La glace italienne a trouvé son adresse marseillaise grâce à deux anciens de chez Big Mamma. Au programme : noisette ultra pure, bacio très chocolaté, “Marseille BB” à la fleur d’oranger et pointe de pistache… Une adresse récente, en plein hyper-centre, où il faut parfois patienter aux heures de pointe. Bon signe.

14 rue Beauvau, 13001 Marseille

Oh Faon ! - The egg-free flan that calms everyone down

Impossible to talk about sugar in Marseille without mentioning Oh Faon!, a local pioneer of a vegan and gluten-free pastry. The kind of address that proves that a pudding without an egg can be not only credible, but frankly bluffing. Other signature dessert: A walk in the garrigue, a monument of delicacy with shortbread pastry, rosemary mousse, pine nut praline and almond cream.

2 rue Edmond Rostand, 13006 Marseille

Mickaël Martinez - Pastries as jewelery

At the Pointe-Rouge, Mickaël Martinez, a finalist in the prestigious Meilleurs Ouvriers de France competition, has made pastry making an art of precision. Here, the foliage looks almost like a jewel: swiss chocolate, caramel bow tie, seasonal fruit creations... Marseille holds there its crescent maker.

67 avenue de Montredon, 13008 Marseille

Paéma -The chouquette enters the big leagues

At Paéma, in the Catalans district, a stone’s throw from the beach, the chouquette is no longer something to peck without thinking about it. It is garnished, transformed, and becomes a pastry shop in its own right. Very serious bonus: spreads from the space, including one in the spirit of the inside of a Kinder Bueno and another with grilled corn.

31 avenue Pasteur, 13007 Marseille

180°C - The Corsican cookie that makes you addicted

Marseille finds the taste of well-made biscuits thanks to Frédéric, the most discreet and yet one of the most talented pastry chefs in the Phocean city. Canistrelli, Corsican biscuits, soft cakes: everything smells like a simple snack, the box that you open “just for one” before going back to it three times.

39 boulevard Bompard, 13007 Marseille

Maison Léon - 100% croissant

Everything starts from a crazy idea: to turn an entire address around the croissant dough. Pastries, pastries, flan on a flaky base, sandwiches... Maëva, former pastry chef of the three Michelin stars restaurant Le Petit Nice, succeeded in her bet. Here, the croissant is not just a morning pastry, it’s a raw material.

24 rue Saint-Suffren, 13006 Marseille

Te Miti - Sweet aperitif

Finally, Te Miti has invented one of the most joyful proposals of the moment: a sweet aperitif board, with cakes and biscuits to dip in homemade marmalades and spreads. The snack, but in a sharing version. Or the aperitif, but without olives or chips.

15 rue des Vignerons, 13006 Marseille