A Macaron Lover's Guide to Cannes

Jean-Luc Pelé Pâtisserie is classed as the best patisserie in Cannes and its macarons don’t disappoint. Pelé trained at Lenôtre, the famous Parisian pastry house, before branching out on his own. He uses lots of pastel colours in his macarons and creates sweet, but also savoury, creations – he makes four different types of foie gras macarons, such as foie gras with fig. The sweet macarons range from Nutella and pistachio to crème brûlée and caramel, and they even have a piña colada flavour. Whichever flavour you choose, all come wrapped up in gorgeous packaging.

Lenôtre (where Jean-Luc Pelé trained) has a patisserie branch in Cannes. It’s a Parisian chain founded by Gaston Lenôtre, who was apparently the inspiration behind the chef rat, Auguste Gusteau, in the film Ratatouille. The patisserie offers just seven different flavours (passionfruit and chocolate, for example) but each is executed perfectly and comes in a handy tin to protect the macaron in transit.

Jérôme de Oliveira is the youngest ever world champion of cake making (or pâtisserie, to give it its proper title), and has wanted to make pastry and sweet things since the age of four. His shop in Cannes (and its online counterpart) sells lots of different kinds of dessert alongside delicious macarons, although he’s just launched a new creation, bubble cakes, which he hopes will take on the macaron.

This Parisian patisserie chain is rumoured to have invented the macaron and is famed for its desserts. The branch in Cannes is very popular with locals and visitors alike. Macarons are gift wrapped with flair in an impressive variety of boxes and include traditional flavours such as fleur d’oranger (orange blossom) and pistachio.