Meet the 2025 winners of the Best Paris Baguette Award

Published on 21/06/2025 - 7:58 GMT+2

If location is 1 point French group are really superior about, it is astir apt bread.

Baking is almost an creation successful France. The baguette has moreover been granted World Heritage Status by UNESCO.

For Parisian bakers, nan apical honour is to triumph nan Best Paris Baguette Award.

The 2025 title featured 187 bakers from nan French capital. Their creations were judged by a assemblage made up of Deputy Paris Mayor Nicolas Bonnet-Oulaldj, representatives of awesome master federations, journalists and 4 randomly selected Parisians.

Judges of this 32nd version assessed nan competing baguettes based connected 5 criteria: appearance, taste, baking quality, crumb and honeycombing.

This year’s fortunate winners are Mickaël Reydellet and Florian Bléas, of nan aptly-named La Parisienne boulangerie.

Reydellet created his first shop successful 2006 and now manages 9 bakeries, 7 of them successful Paris and 2 successful his autochthonal Normandy.

“I'm very proud of nan teams, because down this title is nan day-to-day activity of nan full staff, and this is not to beryllium overlooked”, he told Euronews Culture.

Reydellet had already won nan title successful 2016. In nan past 9 years, he worked endlessly to amended his product, contempt external challenges for illustration nan Covid-19 pandemic and nan warfare successful Ukraine.

“Wheat harvests alteration each year. We person to accommodate our recipes each clip to return this into relationship ”, he explained. “That's nan creation of baking.”

Like each recipient of nan Best Paris Baguette prize, Reydellet and Bléas will person nan privilege of delivering their breadstuff to nan Élysée Palace during a year.

But for him, nan French President is simply a customer for illustration immoderate other.

“It’s ever very absorbing to beryllium capable to spell into nan Élysée Palace and service nan astir prestigious tables. But we return awesome attraction complete each azygous 1 of our products”, Reydellet said.

“Whether it's nan President aliases conscionable different client, we really effort to do our occupation well, and that's what pays off.”

Artisans astatine La Parisienne are nary strangers to awards. Reydellet's workfellow Mathieu Leveque besides won nan Best Paris Pastry prize this year, and Aziz Boussaidi earned 2nd spot astatine nan title for nan champion croissant successful nan region.

After completing its ain independent tasting, Euronews Culture tin opportunity that Bléas and Reydellet's baguette is simply a worthy winner.

It besides mostly passes nan "Ratatouille" test. As explained by nan characteristic of Colette successful nan 2007 animated Pixar film, a bully breadstuff tin beryllium recognised by nan measurement its crust sounds.

La Parisienne's baguette offers a "symphony of crackle. Only awesome breadstuff sounds this way.”