PRODUCTS
pastries, chocolates

LOCATION
Lexington & 74rd

TYPE
Take out & Eat-in

SPECIALTIES
French pastries

PRICE RANGE
$$$

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USERS RATING

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Payard

1032 Lexington Avenue   Map it!
New York, NY
212 717-5252

Payard's pastries are on a par with the very best in Paris; the large assortment of always-fresh sweets is sure to delight your palate. Classics, like the opera (layers of cake, chocolate and coffee cream), the savarin (sponge cake dipped in rhum syrup with vanilla custard in the middle), and any number of fruit tarts are all there. Payard also excels in inventive combinations of flavours; the raspberry-lychee tart, on a shortbread crust topped with almond biscuit and green-tea/basil cream, is fantastic. The Chinon, a pistachio mousse with wild cherries on a chocolate wafer, should not be missed either.

Many kinds of morning pastries are also on display; the croissants are simply perfect. The craquelin, a cross between the French brioche and the Italian panettone, is also very well done.

The chocolate counter offers over 20 different kinds of French-style chocolates; most of them made with a center of flavoured ganache dipped in a thin layer of dark chocolate couverture.

Payard also has a full-menu, full service restaurant with fine French cuisine, just behind the salon de thé.

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LATEST USER REVIEWS

From: Hubert on Mar-12-2005
The place simply combines the best of everything from croissants to pastries, and I like the options of sitting in the nice entrance rotonda for coffee and pastries, the bistro-type restaurant area for brunch or dinner, or simply taking out food - generally I can't help but doing both. It is simply heaven on earth..., to find a place where you can have cake and everything else !

From: Rasha Mosaad on Jan-28-2004
It is heaven for pastry lovers.
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