It was a while ago back in June this visit to Yann Couvreur. We see him as an established pastry chef in his young age, high profile in social media, as judge in a several patisserie competitions. He has worked in several restaurants with stars chefs. He started in the kitchen of Gérard Víe, Alain Dutournier and later as sous-chef with Jean-François Foucher in Park Hyatt Paris-Vendôme. He then worked several years aboard. In 2013, he got recruited by the palace Prince de Galles in Paris with his new take on 3 different recipes of kouign-amann, he stayed there till 2015 when he eventually quitted and opened his first shop in Goncourt.
With his impressive CV and the high price, we had high expectations. Beautiful packaging with pastel colours and slight metallic bronze ink, Yann Couvreur uses fox as his emblem.
Tarte framboise estragon - Raspberry tarragon tart, with crunchy sweet pastry base, almond cream, creamy tarragon, fresh raspberries and marmalade. It was refreshing if you like a light fruit tart. 6,80 €
Carré citron vert - lime tart with sweet crust base, creamy emulsion with lime, lime confit, Swiss meringue, fresh lime segments and lime powder. Black and milk chocolate chips, hazelnuts and crepe. 4,80€
Aromatic and good balance of flavours and texture, the negative: the crust at the bottom was soft! Unforgivable for a chef this level.
Merveille aux pralines - Light chocolate mousse with milk, hazelnut praline with fleur de sel, hazelnut dacquoise, meringue, dark chocolate icing. Bursts of milk and dark chocolate, hazelnuts and crepe
Interesting with the texture. 6,50 €
Éclaire Tonka noir - Crispy puff choux pastry, 66% dark chocolate, Tonka bean, ganache, cocoa chips, dark chocolate frosting
Unfortunately, it was quite a hot day, the dark frosting on the top melted and when I tried to slice from the narrow box, it cracked.
Didn’t affect the taste at all, in fact it was my favourite, the complex taste of tonka and dark chocolate was incredible. Mr. n was less hot with the square shaped choux puff pastry. I didn’t mind it at all, although it was a bit far from a conventional éclair.
Overall, the cakes were very good. Some reservations due to some technical mistakes that was quite elementary and not too forgivable with high price tag like this.
Yann Couvreur Patisserie Goncourt
137 avenue Parmentier
75010 Paris
yanncouvreur.com