6 Best Day Trips from Paris

"This shop and tea salon is visually arresting, with 18th and 19th century and Louis XVI decor, and many of its original bones. Even the façade dates to the first part of the 18th century. The rows of shelves and display cases full of cakes, waffles (gaufres, the Méert signature), candies, and chocolates recall an old fashioned candy shop. The vanilla gaufre may be the house's signature, but any manner of other exquisite, perfectly prepared pastry are worth attention: financiers, éclairs, lemon tartelettes, Saint-Honoré, and another Lille specialty, the merveilleux. This place makes an impression inside and out." - Lindsey Tramuta, Mary Winston Nicklin