paris: st. germain, l'avant comptoir crêpes, jardin du luxemburg

One of the main reasons I love reading other blogs, and why I started my own, is that you can discover new places, experiences, books, restaurants, food, and endless other things that you may not have otherwise.

The lovely Margo writes a wonderful travel blog, and when she wrote a post about Paris and suggested the little takeaway crêperie in St. Germain, it was a no brainer. We made a beeline for this tiny little place (next to the proper L'Avant Comptoir restaurant) and grabbed two huge crêpes to go. I went for the day's special - chicken, artichoke, egg, cheese and rocket, and it was so good! For only 6 euros, it was a bargain too.

We enjoyed them in the beautiful Jardin du Luxemburg a short walk away, where there was a live band playing popular tunes and the sun shone (for most of the time!).

I highly recommend this little lunch break idea - budget friendly, very pretty and quite romantic!

crêpe cake

Step 1: make a shed load of crêpes.

Step 2: make a filling, anything you like (or even better yet, just get a bucket of Nutella), sandwich it between each crêpe, pile them up.

Step 3: sprinkle sugar on top and blow torch it into a crisp caramel just for decoration, marvel at the prettiness and cut in to see all the layers.

Happy Pancake Day!

p.s. this was just a fun experiment I did on the weekend, the filling didn't turn out quite right (it was coconut milk based, if you're wondering) so I'm not sharing the entire recipe, but I did come up with a good batter for dairy free crêpes - 6 large eggs, 3 cups almond milk, 2 TBSP agave nectar, 1.5 cups flour. You can find lots of great recipes for crêpe cakes on the internet, it's a great little twist to your standard pancakes (though I would never say no to plain old fluffy pancakes with maple syrup and bacon…)!