Serious Cooking

In serious business since 1820, no chi-chi poo-poo cooking store with cutesie little stuff, this is truly a cook's store, featuring whisks of every size and description, a plethora of pastry pans and bags, pots large enough for your average cannibal's dinner and oars (literally) for stirring the contents.

An amazing place for a simple home cook to visit on a trip to Paris, Dehillerin is on the rue Coquilliere, happily just steps away from Au Pied du Cochon where the raw oysters and onion soup are straight from heaven. And, if you're of a mind to absorb a little architectural splendor, skip next door to admire St. Eustache, a gothic cathedral that we admired even more than Notre Dame, which seems dark and brooding compared to this later, lighter and more joyous church. I particularly liked the stained glass window of St. Louis (a king of France) as a boy getting his education from elders with his mother looking on - his feet don't even touch the floor in the huge chair he is occupying. Charming. We loved St. Eustache so much that we gave it a nickname - St. Moustache.

Dehillerin is a shrine to a different faith than St. Moustache, and Paris is a temple to both.