Georges Larnicol

Vous êtes gourmand, vous adorez le kouign aman MAIS vous n’arrivez pas à venir à bout du gâteau en format classique? (format pour deux bretons, mais six parisiens) (je vous rassure, ce n’est pas mon cas… Hem hem). Mais sinon, pour les gens normaux…
J’ai la solution: poussez la porte de Larnicol et choisissez vos kouign aman en portion individuelles — les Kouignettes ! Classique ou originales (mmmh pistache, citron ou chocolat), il y en a pour tous les goûts. Rien né vous interdit d’en prendre beauuuuucoup hein… De retour chez vous, il né restera plus qu’à les réchauffer doucement au four !
Sinon, la maison vend aussi du chocolat, des caramels des meringues… Et Georges Larnicol est un MOF :-) une fois convaincus par le beurre et le sucre, vous pourrez refaire le plein à Paris, cette caverne d’Ali Baba n’étant pas la seule :-)

Wonderful shop to get chocolates, candies, cookies, and pastries in Guérande. Since I had already been in France for over a week by the time I made it to Maison Georges Larnicol, I had to be careful about my sugar intake. Don’t get the wrong idea though. It’s not like I didn’t get anything, I just took it easy. And got myself a couple Kouignettes. A Kouignette is a baby Kouign-​amann (to teach you how to participate in the fun of saying this wonderfully buttery pastry’s name, follow me: cooñ-​amon – with that ñ sound from Spanish or ‘gn’ sound from Italian or French, as it were – when said quickly, it’s cooñamon). Prior to this visit, I had my first actual Kouign-​amann in Rochefort-​en-​Terre (which is an awesome place to visit around Christmas!) and it was the natural (or plain) one. Maison Georges Larnicol has an interesting variety, with many of them catching my attention. I picked Rum Raisin and Pistachio, in an effort to not overdo it.
Service was very nice, though I had AT to do all of the talking with the woman at the register when we decided to call it a day and go pay for the Kouignettes that I picked and bagged myself. I snapped a few photos with nary an evil eye, which would never happen in Paris.
I didn’t eat my Kouignettes right away, and actually, I only at the Rum Raisin, which was delectable. I saved the Pistachio one for several days and gave it to my sister as a possibly stale souvenir from Guérande. She ate it the next day, which at this point meant the Kouignette was going on 4 – 5 days old… And she absolutely loved it and asked me if I knew where she could purchase one. Unfortunately, I have not seen anything resembling Kouign-​amanns at any of the French bakeries that I have visited in the metro Atlanta area so I had to break the bad news to her. The flip side of all this is AT’s mom hooked me up with two cookbooks of recipes for traditional dishes from the Brittany region. And guess what recipe shows up there?

Je suis allé une semaine en vacance à la Baule et lors de ma découverte des Pays de Loire je me suis trouvé à Guérande capitale du sel.
Dans la rue Saint Michel j’ ai trouvé une boutique que je conseille vivement: La maison Larnicol.
Il y en a un peu partout en Bretagne et à Bordeaux. J’ai failli acheter tout le magasin !!!
On y trouve des Kouignettes des torchettes des galettes des chocolats des friandises des macarons enfin bref tout ce que ma diététicienne m’interdit !!!
Au diable le régime je me régalé
Si tu vas à Guérande visite toute la ville et ses remparts et comme tout cela t’auras donné faim arrêtes-​toi là et fais toi plaisir