Ten Belles Bread
When Ten Belles opened its sourdough bakery on rue Bréguet in 2016, the baker was Alice Quillet, formerly of Tartine in San Francisco and Mirabelle in Copenhagen.76
Why go
Come for the sourdough that Paris restaurants took up. Emily Monaco of The Infatuation wrote in January 2024: There's a reason Ten Belles' sourdough has replaced baguettes on the tables of many top restaurants in town.
1 Business Traveller's Hannah Brandler found it on the table at the chef David Toutain's restaurant in 2022.4 Tatiana and Katia Levha, the sisters who cook at Double Dragon and Le Servan, told the MICHELIN Guide in 2023: We go to Ten Belles for our bread, which we also use at the restaurant, and like going there for coffee and a chocolate chip cookie.
3 Monaco wrote of the loaf: Their signature loaf's treacly crust and airy interior will impress even the proudest San Franciscan, and is the ideal base for their smoky bacon-cheddar toastie.
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The Bréguet shop is the largest of the three Ten Belles shops and holds the central kitchen, with seats inside and a terrace in the courtyard.5 Monaco wrote that the secret terrace out back makes it our favorite of the three.
1 The three-MICHELIN-star chef Dominique Crenn named this shop among her Paris favorites in 2024: I really like Ten Belles here for coffee. Sometimes I order a salad and the breads are good, too.
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Order this / avoid
- Order: a signature loaf to take home, the one Emily Monaco praised in 2024.1
- Order: the bacon-cheddar toastie, and share it. David Lebovitz, 2017, found the toastie
huge, I recommend just getting a half, or sharing a full-size one.
7 - Order: the seasonal fruit tart. Emily Monaco, The Infatuation, 2024:
save space for a seasonal fruit tart on a croissant dough base.
1 - Order: the sprouted rye loaf if there is one. David Lebovitz, 2017:
even better was the sprouted rye bread, made with rye berries left to sprout 3 to 4 days.
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What locals & experts say
- Megan Carnegie, Time Out Paris, 2017, five out of five:
Who for? Bread snobs
(Pour qui ? Les snobs du pain
).8 - Le Fooding, 2021:
Join the line facing the long windowed bar overlooking a stainless-steel workspace, and get to know the toastie of the day.
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Good to know
- Booking: no reservations, as of April 2026. Order at the counter.5
- Days: open every day, closing earlier at weekends, on the house page in April 2026.5
- Price: sandwiches and focaccia ran from 3.90 to 9.90 euros and a cortado cost 3.50 in 2021.6
- The other shops: the first Ten Belles café is on rue de la Grange aux Belles in the 10th, and a third is at 53 rue du Cherche-Midi in the 6th.1
- Phone: 01 47 00 08 19.5
- Getting there: Métro Bréguet-Sabin, Voltaire or Richard Lenoir.5
Verdict
should-visit — Go to Ten Belles for the sourdough loaf that Paris chefs have put on their own tables, and for a bacon-cheddar toastie on the courtyard terrace. There are no reservations, so order at the counter and expect a line at lunch.