5/31/2023 0 Comments La maison du chocolat new york![]() But finally La Maison du Chocolate opened a New York City boutique on the Upper East Side of New York City, and then another in Rockefeller Center, ensuring a steady supply. The crossing took ten years, a decade during which every traveler to Paris was made to bring back a few boxes. *Pronounced POT duh froo-EE- not pâté (pah-TAY), which is a different type of food and not made of fruit. Before leaving town we stocked up on all the pâte de fruits we could manage, unsure that such shimmering gems of intense fruit flavor would ever cross to our side of the ocean. But they tasted like something quite out of this world. * To the unschooled they looked like French relatives of the children’s fruit jellies like Chuckles and the more refined Gimbal’s fruit slices. But what captured our fancy most were the pâtes de fruits. Yes, the chocolate was deliciously dark, the fondants silky and the sophisticated flavors quite unlike anything available in the U.S. When we finally got to the shop after a very long walk (that looked deceptively manageable on the map), we rewarded ourselves by purchasing one of everything. ![]() The chocolatier, Robert Linxe, got great press even on our side of the ocean and we were determined to make our first visit memorable. We first discovered La Maison du Chocolat as a young girl who pilgrimaged to Paris for culinary enlightenment. ![]() La Maison Du Chocolat Pâtes De Fruits: A Fruit in Every Pâte Winning the ribbon: Are there better pate de fruits in the world? Maybe, but we’re happy to stop right here. Photo
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