La Petite Alsacienne: with its pretzels and kouglofs, this bakery-pastry shop delights the 14th

For eight years now, a whiff of Alsace has been blowing through the Pernety-Plaisance neighborhood in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. It is here, at No. 45 on Raymond Losserand Street, that La Petite Alsacienne has set up shop in 2018. Since then, the bakery-pastry shop has been anything but quiet. On the contrary. While many locals pop in to pick up their breads and pastries, others come from farther away and are prepared to drive miles to taste their famous bretzels.

This Tuesday morning, around 9 a.m., the line even snakes out into the street. We brace ourselves with patience and peer through the display window to see what the previous customers ordered, hoping the pastries we’re after are still available. The holy grail? The bretzel made in-house, fresh from the oven. Each day, plenty of customers leave the shop with one or more of these traditional pastries tucked under their arm. Some tourists even post on social media, the famous bretzel in hand.

One quickly becomes hooked on this specialty from La Petite Alsacienne—plump, incredibly tasty and moist. To vary the pleasures, the house naturally offers the unmissable plain pretzel, but also several variations: with cheese, with chocolate, or with seeds. Its famous pretzel loaf is also used to craft the midday sandwiches, such as the pulled-duck version with onions, wild garlic, tomato and mayonnaise.

But this bakery-pastry shop doesn’t stop at just this one Alsatian specialty. The house also offers a delicious kouglof or, for good measure, a strudel, both homemade.

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The more classic pastries, which we haven’t tasted yet, also look tempting, such as apple crumble, the chocolate tartlet, grandma’s flan, or chestnut flan that’s eyeing us. We’ll save them for next time.

Busy as can be the day we visited, La Petite Alsacienne also offers a fine range of breads and pastries. No doubt, when you go, you’ll leave with one or more delights! Prices are reasonable too, with a plain pretzel at €1.80 and a kouglof at €5.30. A strudel is €3.50. The only downside is the queue, which can be long at certain times and may put some people off. But what’s inside is truly worth it!