Sadaharu Aoki

Visite du corner d’Aoki au Lafayette Gourmet. Tout a toujours l’air aussi bon: pâtisseries, et macarons !
Le service est impeccable, toujours bien aimable et bienveillant.
Je suis tenté par le chou matcha (3.80 €). Assez volumineux, la crème déborde du chou et me fait de l’œil depuis un moment.
La dégustation a lieu à la maison: une VRAIE tuerie ce chou ! La crème n’est pas grasse en bouche et le thé matcha est vraiment intense. Je vous le recommande vraiment ! En plus, il vous faudra bien plus que de deux bouchées pour y venir à bout !
J’ai eu droit à une petite dégustation de caramel beurre salé recouvert de thé matcha en prime lors de mon passage en caisse ! Miam !

Location Tip: Google maps shows this as being in the Galeries Lafayette Haussmann building, but this is in the Galeries Lafayette Maison. We were massively time crunched and frantically trying to find this place before our next activity. The entire time we were in the wrong building. So make sure you punch in the Galeries Lafayette Maison address and you’ll find this place.
This place differs from some other pastry shops as there is a heavy emphasis on Asian flavors such as green tea. I felt the macaron’s were a good value relative to some of the pricier shops. Additionally the Mille Feuilles Matcha cake was flaky and had a good flavor to it. The «Bamboo» was good but not particularly memorable.
The prices are definitely on the steeper side, but the quality is there. All in all this place is quite solid and a return trip shall be made in the future.

Fabuleux !
C’est un génie de la pâtisserie, il mérite un doctorat en pâtisserie pour toute l’innovation qu’il a apporté à des grands classiques de la pâtisserie française: macarons, Opéra etc… Les macarons sont très savoureuses, les gâteaux très originales, on part la à découverte d’une autre dimension de la pâtisserie. En plus les prix sont abordables et moins élevés que ceux de ses concurrents.

J’adoreeeeeeeeee!!! Si vous aimez tout ce qui est à base de thé vert, vous êtes à la bonne adresse!

A la recherché d’un joli dessert à mettre sur la table ou pour un plaisir coupable? Les douceurs de Sadaharu Aoki sont faites pour vous!
Alors je connais essentiellement les pâtisseries, pas les macarons donc je né saurais me formuler sur la qualité de ceux-​ci.
Le dôme citron praliné est LE gros coup de coeur de la carte; les desserts au thé matcha sont un peu plus surprenants disons.
Enfin, on aime la précision des pâtisseries, à la technique incroyablement maîtrisée.

Personnellement ma pâtisserie préférée.
J’aime ce savant mélange entre savoir faire français et saveur asiatique.
Grande fane du Macha je né peux y résister sous quelque forme que ce soit.
Les macarons sont délicieux y compris celui au wasabi ! Très surprenant !
Mais le gâteau au macha… Un délice sans nom.
Une explosion de saveur inattendues.
J’ai fêté mon anniversaire avec un gâteau Aoki !! Certes coûteux mais ça en vaut la peine !!
Petit bémol car certaines pâtisseries au beurre salée sont bien trop sucrées! Sinon c’est parfait :)

Sadaharu Aoki is a Japanese pastry chef who infuses Japanese flavors into traditional French sweets. I was soooooo excited to find his outpost inside the Galeries Lafayette Gourmet floor. I came here twice. The first time I got 6 macarons: 2 yuzu, 1 genmaicha, 1 matcha, 1 hojicha, and 1 wasabi. The matcha was my favorite, smooth and delicious. The wasabi was weird.
As you can see from my photos, I took tons of pictures of the case, with chocolates, cookies, desserts, and other treats all with Japanese influence. The second time I came back, I got a green tea éclair and a yuzu tarte. They were both incredible. I highly recommend the green tea éclair.
There are other flavors of items i did not try, like black sesame. This is a great stop for Japanese flavor lovers and sweet lovers alike. Also, everything is so beautiful!

Sadaharu Aoki, un de mes, si ce n’est mon, pâtissiers préférés. Car ici, non seulement les gâteaux sont beaux, mais ils sont en plus et surtout, délicieux !!! Je n’ai jamais été déçue d’un de leurs gâteaux.
Pour un anniversaire, nous avions commandé un grand gâteau matcha chocolat, qui était très léger, pas trop sucré, avec un équilibre entre le matcha et le chocolat parfait. bref, un pur régal !!
Les éclairs sont aussi très très bons, la crème n’est pas trop écœurante et l’équilibre avec la pâté à choux est parfaitement respecté. Celui au sésame noir est vraiment très bon, comme celui au Yuzu.
Les petits gateaux thé matcha azuki et autres, né sont pas en reste non plus ! Le gout est bien présent, c’est léger, pas trop sucré. Juste une consistance un peu molle pour moi même si le socle est croustillant !
Pareils pour les macarons, très réussis.
Le gâteau citron praliné (5,5 €) est juste trop bon !! C’est un biscuit macaron recouvert d’une mousse très aérienne et très citronnée (comme une sorte de blanc d’œuf pas totalement monté en neige) avec une inserre croustillante pralinée !! Je vous laisse juger par vous même !
Je vous le dis, c’est mon pâtissier préféré !

We have only tried the macarons but there are some beauties that Aoki makes. We fell in love with his Rose (tastes like a English Rose Garden), Sesame Noir, Yuzu and Green Tea. We have tried Laduree, Fauchon and Pierre Herme. I would say Aoki is our favorite alongside Pierre Herme.
The flavours we weren’t keen on were Wasabi-​we expected a spicy effect that wasn’t there at all and Citron, Pistache. These weren’t bad they just didn’t excite us.
*This Sadaharu Aoki is inside the Lafayette Galeries Gourmet building (next door to the mall).

I’ve been dying to try this place for a year now! I was so excited to have finally come here, that I didn’t even have enough time to go shopping.
There macarons are 4 stars. I think Laduree has a better consistency and texture for the outer shell. However, Sadaharu Aoki has more flavors that I enjoy (e.g. matcha, genmatcha, earl grey, yuzu, black sesame). The yuzu macaron was my favorite.
I also ordered the Matcha cake, Yuzu tart, and Matcha & Azuki pudding.
The matcha cake did not have a lot of matcha flavor, but I think there was a layer of chocolate and hazelnut. Although I was disappointed by the lack of matcha flavor, this cake was actually really delicious. Imagine Ferrero chocolate in a cake form, but multiply that by 10.
The Yuzu tart was AMAZING. It was VERY sour, but the flavor and texture were both really yummy.
The matcha pudding is also highly recommended. The matcha taste is very strong and the pudding had a good consistency. I was lucky and bought the last one!
Overall, highly recommended if you enjoy Japanese/​French desserts. It is a bit pricey, but it’s probably a once in a lifetime opportunity!

Etant une grande fan de matcha, ça faisait un petit moment que je voulais tester cette patisserie, mais elle était un peu loin de chez moi… L’autre jour en me promenant dans les galeries lafayette gourmet je suis tombée par hasard sur un stand Sadaharu Aoki, j’ai donc sauté sur l’occasion !
J’ai pris un éclair au matcha, une tartelette matcha — caramel au beurre salé et un dome citron — praliné.
La tartelette au matcha — caramel au beurre salé était top, la pâte étant très bonne, j’aurais juste mis un tout petit peu plus de matcha, parce qu’a mon gout il né ressortait pas assez sur le caramel. Mais bon, c’était délicieux et j’ai vraiment hâte d’en re-​manger, pareil pour le dome citron — praliné qui était très bon lui aussi !
L’éclair par contre m’a un peu déçue, étant donné le prix (pratiquement 5e) je m’attendais a quelque chose de fin, ce qui n’a pas vraiment été le cas, il s’agissait d’un éclair tout ce qu’il y a de plus ordinaire, sauf qu’il était au matcha… Il restait bon cependant

Au Lafayette Gourmet, après un passage au stand de vapeurs chinoises, arrêt sur le stand japonais de Sadaharu Aoki!
Un stand très coloré avec des chocolats présentés sous forme de palette de maquillage (original pour le coup) ou thématisés pour les occasions spéciales en l’occurrence pour la Saint-​Valentin actuellement, des macarons et des gâteaux visuellement magnifiques et raffinés constitués de différentes couches aux saveurs originales telles: haricots rouges, matcha ou sésame avec également quelques classiques: crème de chocolat, coulis de fruits rouges… et il a fallu que mon choix se porte sur le cheescake citronné!
Oui parce que le cheescake j’adore ça alors version nippon fallait goûter :p et grande suprise, voilà un cheescake léger, frais, aérien, pas trop sucré qui se mange sans faim sans vous donner l’impression d’avoir mangé un truc fat!
Une recette qui pour le coup m’a bien transportée :) Maintenant à tester avec les autres saveurs!

Got an assortment of stuff from their Galerie Lafayette location:
— Black sesame éclair: pretty good, could have been stronger black sesame taste and less sugar…
— Matcha éclair: strong matcha taste which I love.
— Caramel tart: really sweet and not my thing (I do love very sweet dessert but this is too much).
— a layer thing (Zen?) of matcha and black sesame with a mini macaron on top, which I didn’t think tasted that great…
— Cream puff: nothing compared to Beard Papa!
Don’t get me wrong, the pastries and presentation was an A++ but when it comes down to the taste, it just didn’t hit the spot for me. They were either too sweet or too bland…

More like 4.5 stars but let’s dissect why I rounded down!
On my first trip to Paris, my sister and I were dying to the Aoki’s famous patisseries.
On our stop to Galeries Lafayette, we stopped by the food court and were faced with the dilemma of choosing what to pick from the shiny glass counters.
We chose the matcha and hojicha macarón and the matcha mille fueille.
I’ve forgotten how much they cost but I know it was a little more than what you were to pay in the US (hence the 4 instead of 5 stars!).
However, it was Paris… aw heck, we didn’t care about the price, we just wanted to eat these delicately made little pastries.
The macaróns were very sweet, but I think traditionally, all macaróns are supposed to be very deep in flavor and overly sweet (as these little treats are small and meant to satisfy with a punch). Both matcha and hojicha flavors were very flavorful and crazy sweet. Because my sister and I split the desserts, it satisfied our sweet tooth and the cup of coffee I had toned down all the sweetness.
The mille fueille was a bit difficult to eat, just because cutting it per bite made the entire pastry crumble to bits. However, the cream was fresh and the puff pastry was perfectly airy and crispy.
THe more I write, the more I long to go back to Paris. You just have to taste for yourself and be positively blown away.
P. S. my sister did get the Éclairs (matcha and sesame flavor) and she said the cream puff pastry was a tad bit soggy but otherwise delicious and totally worth trying!

So the main reason for my Paris trip was trying Sadaharu Aoki’s pastries and I’m sad I didn’t buy it on the first day and just eat in my hotel room, because i had to buy on the second day and then attempt to get it on metro, pick up travel bags, and hold it on the eurostar so I eat it back in London with my family. It was BASHED about. (i thought the staff secured things really well here?-apparently not with mine)
I felt the macarons were too sweet, I know they’re supposed to be but TOOTH acheling sweet. I also transported the zen cake home and the matcha red bean. I loved the latter, wasn’t too impressed with the unique taste of zen but my parents loved it! I just hate the fact that the one in lafayette is ONLY a counter. I want to find his actual shop next time. Lafayette is too stressful to navigate when I only want food.

The desserts here are incredibly beautiful, but I have been disappointed in the taste department. The green tea and black sesame eclairs were just alright for me and the chocolate dome thingy was forgettable.

In search of gifts to buy for my family for Christmas, I was set out to find this patisserie. Once I found the shop, I spoke with the sales girl in which items would be good to ship back. I ended up picking the small macarons. For myself, I got the chocolate covered chocolate flavored macaron.
Eating the chocolate covered macaron for breakfast, it was a satisfying treat. Filling no, but tasty, yes. I wished I bought more of the other flavors or bought the other pastries that they offered.
This place is a keeper and on my To Go list for my next trip to Paris.

The sesame éclair was AMAZING! Definitely a must try. Subtle, yet still quite flavorful. It has a different taste, one not everyone may like, but I definitely did!
I also ordered one of the yellow dome like things. I don’t remember what it was called, but it was still delicious. A citrus-​y exterior with a crunchy hazelnut praline center and macaron base. Yum!
The vanilla and yuzu tarte was my least favorite of the three. It wasn’t bad, just not great. The vanilla mouse was lacking that vanilla essence I enjoy and I found the combination a little off.
I love how they secure the desserts to the box so they don’t move around. Plus, I love this specific location because after picking up an éclair I can just walk over to Jean Paul Hevin for some caramels or Eric Kayser for some bread!

This review was intended for the branch on 35 rue de Vaugirard.
The pastries are beautifully displayed and the Japanese staff are very courteous. The only downside is the price. His famous éclair is close to 5 Euros and other pasties is around that mark. However his croissants — Butter, Matcha, and Almond — are reasonablly priced and by far the best I have tasted in Paris — buttery, flaky and not too sweet. I am not so impressed with Yuzu chocolate, tough.

When I first tasted Aoki Sadaharu pastries, while visiting Tokyo a few months back, I thought they were good, but I was far less impressed with them than with some of the other pastries I tried during my trip (such as from Pierre Hermé).
Now that I’ve given them another try, I have been converted to a fan. Very tasty, and some of the most beautiful pastries anywhere.
You’ll never find that the staff has manhandled your pastries while randomly plopping them together in a box here (yes, that does happen even in Paris at some other places). The chef and staff are fanatically attentive to detail — and that’s a very good thing in a pastry shop!

the pastries not only look good here but they taste just as good! where else in paris can you find asian influenced flavor macarons? black sesame, wasabi, yuzu, matcha, and genmatcha to name a few. they macarons are different but they are delicious. sadaharu aoki is one of the few pastry shops that does not charge for a «box» for the macarons. yay for the flavors and free box!