Tranché — Specialty Store in Batignolles, Paris
Tranché on Rue Brochant is the Batignolles bakery whose bread keeps the neighbourhood coming back, and its flan is the thing to order first.
What Tranché is
Tranché is a specialty shop on Rue Brochant in Batignolles, and the bread is the reason to walk here: baguettes that hold up day after day. Order the flan too, set in a shortcrust base with a caramel hint, then a croissant or a vanilla choux pastry. A few items run €5–20.
Verified November 2026 · 2 independent sources
Bread, flan and a Batignolles counter
Tranché is an independent bakery on Rue Brochant in Batignolles, the kind of shop a neighbourhood notices when it goes. It opens early and closes late on weekdays, and the counter is where everything happens.
The bread is what you come for: baguettes and loaves that hold their quality from one visit to the next, which is rarer than it sounds. The flan is the second order, a custard set in a shortcrust base with a caramel hint at the edge. Pastries and viennoiseries fill the rest of the case, croissants and cream puffs among them, and a vanilla choux pastry earns its own mention. A ham and butter sandwich makes a lunch.
You order at the counter and take it away; there is no seating to speak of. On a Sunday morning one person can be working both the counter and the till, and the wait stretches to twenty minutes when the queue builds.
Prices sit high for the portion sizes, and the bread and chocolate can feel small against what you pay. A few items land between €5 and €20, so a bag of pastries and a loaf is a modest spend, but not a cheap one.
Come for the bread and the flan, and come on a weekday if you can.
What to look for
Bread and baguettes
The reason to return: loaves and baguettes that stay consistent from one visit to the next.
Flan
A custard tart in a shortcrust base with a caramel hint at the edge.
Pastries and viennoiseries
Croissants, cream puffs and the rest of the case, with a vanilla choux pastry worth naming.
The pick list
What to bring home
Bread and baguettes
The bread is the reason to come back here: it stays consistent from one visit to the next, and it is the same quality every time.
Flan
The flan is the one to get first, and the shortcrust base carries a hint of caramel.
Pastries and viennoiseries
Croissants, cream puffs and the pastries in general are the reason to stop in.
Ham and butter sandwich
The ham and butter sandwich is excellent, and both the ham and the bread earn their mention.
Vanilla choux pastry
Among the pastries, the vanilla choux pastry is worth a special mention.
Who is this for
This suits a traveler staying in Batignolles who wants a proper baguette and a flan to eat on a bench, and anyone passing Brochant station who would rather carry bread than a supermarket loaf. It also works for a picnic planner putting together pastries and a ham and butter sandwich for later in the day.
If you want to assemble a whole meal rather than buy bread and a pastry, the covered market on Rue des Moines is 50 m away and fills the gaps a bakery counter cannot. Marché Couvert Batignolles.
The verdict
The bread and flan hold their own against any bakery in the area, and it rewards a weekday morning stop rather than a weekend queue.
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