Aged to perfection
Maison Vérot
GOODS & SERVICES • FOUND Shop
Some things don’t need reinventing. That’s the case with the feuilleté au jambon (ham puff) at Maison Vérot: white ham, Emmental, béchamel, and a shattering puff pastry. Created by Pierre Vérot and unchanged since, it’s the kind of thing you eat standing up in the kitchen, or serve with a green salad (and pretend it’s a meal).
Maison Vérot has been doing things the right way since 1930. Now helmed by Gilles Vérot and his son Nicolas, their flagship shop on Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs is a temple to French charcuterie, offering both classic and inventive creations. The sourcing is impeccable (pigs raised in the Perche, flour from the Moulins de Versailles) and their range covers every craving, from pistachio-flecked charcuterie that gleam like a stained-glass window to nose-to-tail terrines, boudin noir, and their now-iconic pâté en croûte.
Other standouts? Delicate poulette terrine with purple carrots and yellow zucchini, spice-flecked tongue terrine, and the Oreiller de la Belle Aurore, a 15-meat masterpiece worthy of its own dinner party. –Victoire Loup
→ Maison Vérot (6th arr, additional locations in the 3rd, 4th, 9th, 15th Arr) • 3 rue Notre-Dame des Champs • Tue-Sat 9h-20h.
Photo: Géraldine Martens