Here is our TOP 10 best Twelfth Night cake adresses for 2008 :
Régis Colin' Twelfth Night cake is the big winner of the almond pancake : decors, cooking, flaky pastry, creaming, every aspect of the cake has been discussed and voted upon by a professional jury...
Régis Colin53 rue Montmartre
75002 Paris
Tel : 01 42 36 02 80
Open : everyday from 08am to 08pm
Price : 18 € for 6 people - from January 2nd
Arnaud Delmontel created a "thousand and one nights" cake full of oriental flavours : almond cream with an orange flower flavour, honey crumbled pistachio. You'll also find there 4 Twelfth Night cakes made with AOC Charente Poitou butter, the classic frangipane, the greedy chocolate, the acid lemon cake and the salt flowered caramel one. Available from January 2nd.
Arnaud Delmontelwww.arnaud-delmontel.com39 rue des Martyrs
75009 Paris
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57 rue Damrémont
75018 Paris
Tel : 01 48 78 29 33 / 01 42 64 59 63
Open: 07am to 08:30pm but Tuesdays
Price : 4,80 € per personne
Pierre Hermé - This year the pastry chef star offers a choice of 3 Twelfth Night cakes : "Carrément chocolat" (flaky pastry, bitter chocolate ganache, crusty chocolate), "aux amandes" (flaky pastry, Almond cream) and of course the famous "Ispahan", with its oriental flavours. this rose flavoured macaroon biscuit, stuffed with rose flavoured almond cream, litchis and rasp, should make a big buzz !
Pierre Herméwww.pierreherme.com72 rue Bonaparte
75006 Paris
Tel : 01 43 54 47 77
Open : Monday to Sunday from 10am to 07pm, Saturday until 07:30pm
Price : "Ispahan" 3/4 persons 32 €, 6/8 persons 52 €, 10/12 persons 68 €
Macha tea Twelfth Night cake by Sadaharu AokiThe most parisian of all Japanese pastry chef designed a cake mixing the french and japanese flavours : a flaky tea flavoured pastry, an Almond cream on an Azuki red bean paste, the all thing splashed with black sesame seeds.
Sadaharu Aokiwww.sadaharuaoki.com35 rue de Vaugirard
75006 Paris
Tel : 01 45 35 36 80
Open : Tuesday to Saturday from 11am to 07pm & Sundays from 10am to 06pm
Price : 4 pers 21.50 €, 6 pers 32.00 €, 8 pers 42.50 €
Spiced at LaduréeThis year, Ladurée Twelfth Night cake is a Gingerbread cake. For the amateurs, Ladurée offers a choice of very original charms : musical instrument miniatures - cithare, violin ou tambourin -, in very nice boxsets.
Laduréewww.laduree.com21 rue Bonaparte
75006 Paris
Tel : 01 44 07 64 87
Open: 08:30am to 07:30pm
Price : 4,90 € a slice
Simplicity & tradition at Paul“pure butter” flaky pastry, frangipane with generous almonds : Paul's Twelfth Night cake is simple and tasty !
Paulwww.paul.fr25 avenue de l'Opéra
75001 Paris
Tel : 01 42 60 78 22
Open : from 07:30am to 08pm from Monday to Saturday, 10am to 08pm on Sundays
Price : 10 € for 4/6 persons
Pistaccio flavoured cake at Gérard MulotThe St Germain's famous pastry chef has created a frangipane na Pistaccio cream Twelfth Night cake. Its name ? "Melchior", like one of the 3 wise men.
You can also chose his Apple & Chocolate Twelfth Night cake but you'll have to order it first.
Gérard Mulotwww.gerard-mulot.com76, rue de Seine
75006 Paris
Tel : 01 43 26 85 77
Price : 5 € per person
New flavours at Eric KayserA new triple flavour Twelfth Night cake, as an hommage to the Three wise men : Honey roasted apricots, Almond cream and 4 spices. A " special" very flavoured under a pure butter flaky pastry.
Eric Kayserwww.maison-kayser.com14 rue Monge 75005 Paris
Tel : 01 44 07 17 81
Ouvert : de 8h à 20h15 sauf le lundi
Price : 21,50 € for 6 persons
Epiphanie 2008, "Lenôtre Jubilee Twelfth Night cake"Last and not Least Lenôtre and its pastry Chef, Guy Krenzer, imagined to celebrate the Lenotre 50 years anniversary a solar and very original Twelfth Night cake.
Smashing codes and conventions, he designed the first solar shaped cake to ply the Sun king with jubilation !
Elegant, astonishing, the Jubilee cake has to be tasted like a ritual.
Lets start with the heart divine - mix of melting perfumed apples, Aix en Provence' Almond Calisson with a touch of Orange crystallized fruit to pinnacle with a stunning passion fruit exotism.
Jubilee Twelfth Night cake 6/8 pers.
Price : 45 €
The 2008 charms - « Passion », « Pleasure », « Love», « Delice » - as many emotion and sharing messages to celebrate 50 years of high greed.
The Jubilee BoxsetHat box, surpise box ? a "Sparkling" set decorated with golden bubbles with the
Jubilee 5 charms.Price : 35 €
Lenôtrehttp://www.lenotre.frLe Café Lenôtre Odyssey110 avenue de France
75013 Paris
Tel 01 44 97 01 39
This adress I'm about to disclose is one of my secret adresses in Paris. It took me a while to share it with you guys but let me tell you why it was worth the wait...
A traditionnal chinese cuisine restaurant that doesn't cost an arm and deliver on its promises. Do not expect to find a trendy sophisticated spot though... it doesn't look a tenth good as it taste but I've been there twice since and every time, diner was pretty damn good. A friend of a friend told me about this brilliant Cantonese restaurant and he was right. He told me his parents (chinese living in Beijin) said this place was OK which was a fantastic compliment considering the fact that they believe every chinese restaurant in Paris were crap!
The cooks know what they are doing in the kitchen, and the food is dished out on aged melamine plate, served on paper-covered tables- no brushed plastic Ikea chairs, chandeliers or quirky flatware or gasp, the little stand for chopsticks, this joint strenuously avoids all unnecessary frills. And still manages to pack in the crowds. This is as good as it gets if one hankers for anything resembling decent Chinese food in Paris. 
They do staples like noodles, tofu and roasted meats well but what made me really happy was to see claypot dishes on their menu. Dishes like the claypot rice with minced pork patty and salted fish not to mention the house tripes are awesome.
