This shop recalls chocolate's Aztec origins, with its choice of spicy fillings (honey and chilli, nutmeg, clove and citrus), chocolate masks and pyramids.

A master chocolate-maker and traiteur, Constant scours the globe for new ideas. His ganaches are subtly flavoured with verbena, jasmine or cardamom.

José Da Rosa sourced ingredients for top restaurants before filling his own shop with Spanish hams, Olivier Roellinger spices and Luberon truffles.

A 1960s legend, Drugstore Publicis was clad with neon swirls by architect Michele Saee following a renovation in 2004; a glass-and-steel café stretches out on to the pavement....

The city's most famous food shop is worth a visit, particularly for the beautifully packaged gift items.

This motherly, yellow-fronted shop, in business since 1946, stocks dense Jewish cakes filled with poppy seeds, apples or cream cheese.

Superchef darling Dubois stocks 80 types of goat's cheese, plus prized, aged st-félicien.

The award-winning Marie Quatrehomme runs this fromagerie. Justly famous for her comté fruité, beaufort and st-marcellin, she also sells specialities such as goat's cheese with...

Hédiard's charming shop dates back to 1880, when they were the first to introduce exotic foods to Paris, specialising in rare teas and coffees, spices, jams and candied...

The Leblanc family started making walnut oil before branching out to press pure oils from hazelnuts, almonds, pine nuts, grilled peanuts and olives.

A Marais fixture, this narrow shop stocks spices and other delights from Mexico, Turkey and India.

Hévin specialises in the beguiling combination of chocolate with potent cheese fillings, which loyal customers serve with wine as an aperitif.