Strasbourg’s 5 best bakeries (our favorites)

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1. La Gare’Mandise

A very good boulangerie-pâtisserie in the Gare district is rare enough to warrant a mention. And you don’t have to have a train to get down there!

The multi-award-winning baker-patissier offers a variety of organic breads, baguettes and special breads (there’s even a cocoa bread in their range), fresh viennoiseries and original, high-quality desserts. There’s plenty of seating (inside and out) for breakfast and snacks.

I like to accompany my allongé with a crusty Swiss bread or a cinnamon roll. It’s quite sweet, but their tigrés (small financiers with sprinkles) are also very good. You’ll also find a number of original products in the shop window, including chocolate praline bread, raspberry marble croissant and Alsatian specialties such as Rofpküeche (a brioche from Rosheim, topped with a mixture of hazelnuts, caramelized almonds and walnuts, and cream) and even Breton specialties such as kouign amann.

As with any bakery close to a station, there’s plenty of room for snacks and savory snacks (sandwiches, salads, wraps).

2. Ma Boulangerie au Feu de Bois

Ma Boulangerie au Feu de Bois is a little neighborhood nugget (mine, Neudorf!). What makes this artisan baker special is that, in addition to traditional baguettes, speciality breads and multigrain breads, he also offers a wide selection of breads by the slice: with dried and/or soft fruits, spelt flour, farmhouse bread, Nordic bread, corn bread and even bear’s garlic or gingerbread spices.

Baked in a wood-fired oven – which you can actually see at the back of the store – it makes you want to treat yourself to a slice! The cutting area and the huge cobblestones are located in a small adjoining room. With its vintage counter, baskets and wooden crates, it feels like you’re playing shop.

As well as breads, there’s a huge selection of viennoiseries, tarts and crazy individual pastries. And even home-made jams and bredele… In the pastry department, I recommend the cinnamon roll (excellent, soft and bun-shaped). Pistachio fans beware! They are offering a pistachio roll and filled doughnuts at the beginning of the year. The desserts and entremets are great too!

3. Plein La Moustache

One of my new canteens, even if it’s not quite within my perimeter. At Plein La Moustache, we prepare baguettes, breads and pastries.

Breakfast classics (great mini-kouglofs, zebra-shaped pains au chocolat and croissants) as well as more creative, trendy and hybrid viennoiseries such as the crookie (a mix of croissant and cookie) or the New York roll (a rolled croissant dough filled with custard) at very reasonable prices.

Plein la Moustache also offers snacks (sandwiches), tarts and pastries (lemon tarts, éclairs). Cinnamon rolls, flavored puff pastry brioches (my favorite), chocolate hazelnut bread, babka, cookies…having tasted quite a few of their products, it’s very gourmet, it crunches, it’s all really delicious!

What’s more, the owners, Gilles and Tanju, are young and super-friendly. The bakery is just a few steps from Petite France. There are a few high chairs available for coffee, or we can take the whole lot and enjoy it on the quays of Petite France or at Square Louise Weiss for a breakfast with a view !

4. Au Fournil d’Austerlitz

It’s a small, traditional, artisan bakery, recognizable by its vintage water-green front. Just stick your nose in the window and you’ll want to push open the door. It feels a little cramped inside (it’s one of the city’s smallest, in existence since 1905), but that’s part of the store’s charm.

Whether in maxi or mini format, therange of viennoiseries is very tempting. You’ll find good classics (Alsatian or not) and sometimes trendy products (New York roll, again…).

What do we take with us? Kouglof, Streusel, Cinnamon Star, Tarte Linzer, pretzels, individual pesto brioches and, of course, baguette, white and special breads. Everything is homemade and made on site. The owner is a natural painter, but she’s really very nice!

5. La Boul’Ange, all organic

As its name suggests, at the artisan bakery La Boul’Ange, the breads are organic and baked exclusively with natural sourdough. Traditional breads, speciality breads, wheat flour-free breads (with chickpea flour, chestnut flour or hemp flour, which will appeal to those on a gluten-free diet) all grow very slowly, which doesn’t rule out minor manufacturing hazards, but is also a guarantee of quality products.

Although Maurizio the baker is Italian (he also makes fougasse and foccacia), he’s a master of pretzel baking! As for viennoiseries, the great classics are there: family kouglofs, croissants and pains au chocolat. Specialties include seasonal tarts (not forgetting the Alsatian with fromage blanc) and flan pâtissier.

A great lover of cinnamon, my favorite delicacy here is the kanelbullar (cinnamon roll) or a more unusual Italian speciality, the maritozzo, a delicious brioche filled with cream.

You can also order a full breakfast and enjoy it on site in the small lounge or on the terrace. Located next to the ever-bustling Place d’Austerlitz, La Boul’Ange is a little outside the Grande Ile, but not really far from the center.