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Credit: Landon Nordeman
Pure pleasure, in pastry form, awaits each day at the Hôtel Plaza Athénée in Paris: At the start of afternoon tea, 3 P.M. sharp, an attendant loads a dessert cart with tantalizing pastries, and rolls it through the hotel's salon. The cakes are some of the best in Paris, and choosing is a welcome challenge. The
pâtissier, Christophe Michalak, is widely considered one of the city's finest pastry chefs, and the sweets bear his smart yet playful signature.
Mille-feuille, lush vanilla pastry cream layered with craggy puff pastry, is literally turned on its side, propped up vertically to enable a clean forkful and prevent the cream from oozing out the edges. The
toupie, French for spinning top, is a toy for grown-ups, a milk chocolate shell filled with soft caramel, vanilla pastry cream, caramel chantilly, and crunchy Streusel. American-style cheesecake, meanwhile, is served as a
verrine, a dessert in a glass, with Philadelphia cream cheese ensuring its authenticity.
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This article was first published in Saveur in Issue #144
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