La Fournée Saint Antoine — Specialty Store in Aligre, Paris
La Fournée Saint Antoine on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine is worth the detour for its pain au chocolat and croissants, pulled fresh from the oven each morning. The Aligre bakery doubles as a quiet tea room where you can sit with a cappuccino and a pastry.
A bakery and tea room in Aligre
La Fournée Saint Antoine on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine in the Aligre neighbourhood opens 6 am to 9 pm daily except Saturday, with pain au chocolat and croissants to eat at the inside tables with tea or a cappuccino, spending €1 to €10.
Verified November 2026 · 2 independent sources
About this store
La Fournée Saint Antoine is an independent bakery and tea room on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, in the Aligre neighbourhood of the 12th. Walk in and the first thing you meet is the pastry case, then the tables and chairs of the interior dining room, which stays quiet enough to sit down properly rather than eat standing.
The pain au chocolat is the item to get first: chocolate pastries come out of the oven fresh and crisp, and they hold up well with a coffee. Croissants are the other thing to order, flaky and light, and raisin rolls join them on the shelf. Sit with a tea or a cappuccino and the morning slows down.
The room is the part people miss. It is a proper sit-down space with tables and chairs, calm rather than rushed, so a breakfast here takes as long as you want it to. Service at the counter comes with a smile and a bit of patience for anyone whose French runs out at the door.
Prices sit in the €1 to €10 range, which covers a pastry and a hot drink without much thought. Everything is sold over the counter to take away or to eat in, and the early 6 am opening means you can catch the first bake of the day before the neighbourhood fills up.
One thing to plan around: the shop is closed on Saturdays, so a weekend visit means Sunday, when it opens at 6 am and runs through to 9 pm. Come on a weekday morning if you want the tea room to yourself. It suits anyone staying nearby who wants a sit-down breakfast, and anyone passing through Aligre with a coffee and a croissant in mind.
What to look for
Pain au chocolat
The chocolate pastry comes out fresh and crisp, and it is the thing to order with a coffee in the tea room.
Croissants
Flaky, light croissants that pair with tea or a cappuccino at the tables inside.
The tea room
An interior dining room with tables and chairs, quiet enough for a slow breakfast rather than a stand-up coffee.
The pick list
What to bring home
Pain au chocolat
The pain au chocolat is worth ordering with your coffee, and the chocolate pastries come out fresh along with the rest.
Croissants
Croissants are among the fresh, crispy pastries to have with tea or cappuccino, and the pastry case holds up across the board.
Who is this for
This suits a traveler staying in or near Aligre who wants a sit-down breakfast rather than a coffee taken standing, with pastries and a quiet room to eat them in. It also works for anyone passing along Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine who wants a croissant and a cappuccino without a wait. And if your French is thin, the welcome at the counter is patient enough to make ordering easy.
If you want to shop for fresh produce and assemble a picnic rather than sit down for pastries, Marché D'aligre on Rue d'Aligre is a short walk away and fills its stalls each morning. Marché D‘aligre.
The verdict
It is a small neighbourhood bakery rather than a destination bakery with a long queue out the door, and it is closed on Saturdays, but for a quiet sit-down breakfast of fresh croissants and pain au chocolat in Aligre it does exactly what you need.
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