Your dessert type
◆ The Chocolate Devotee
Seventy percent, a fresh cream centre, and the box is yours.
Pastry is a delivery system for chocolate as far as you are concerned. You read the cacao percentage before the price, you keep bars at eighteen degrees and you have opinions about Madagascar versus Peru. A champagne truffle from Zurich is your idea of a religious experience.
Your perfect afternoon: Sprüngli in the morning, a walk down the Bahnhofstrasse to Teuscher and Läderach, a Sachertorte in your imagination and a single-origin bar in your pocket.
Your dessert
The champagne truffleYour houses
The Chocolate Devotee: your houses
ChocolatierZurich · Bahnhofstrasse and Storchengasse
Confiserie Teuscher
The champagne truffle
ChocolatierParis · Rue de Seine and Tokyo Ginza
Pierre Marcolini
Bean to bonbon, in couture boxes
ChocolatierParis · Boulevard Saint-Germain and Madeleine
Patrick Roger
The sculptor
ChocolatierParis · Rue de Turenne, the Marais
Jacques Genin
Caramels and the mille-feuille to order
HotelIconVienna · Philharmonikerstrasse, behind the Opera
Hotel Sacher Wien
The Original Sacher-Torte
The other types
Who else is at the counter
❖ The Classicist
The Paris-Brest the way it was meant to be, and nothing clever.
✦ The Purist
One perfect mousse, eaten at the counter, in silence.
♛ The Tea Ritualist
Three tiers, a pot that never runs cold, and a second round of scones.
✧ The Avant-Gardist
The lemon that is not a lemon, and the queue is part of the fun.
❦ The Grand Café Romantic
Red velvet, a torte with a seal, and the afternoon is yours.