Loiseau La Pâtisserie

A Saulieu counter for chocolate and pastry

Chocolate is where this boutique makes its case. Loiseau La Pâtisserie opened in May 2024 as the Bernard Loiseau group's move into chocolaterie and pâtisserie, a sweet retail address rather than a seated cafe or a bread bakery. The recipes are created in Saulieu and carry the Loiseau name and its Burgundy provenance, with sister boutiques since opened in Megève and Metz. The range runs across pastry, chocolate, confectionery, bonbons and gâteaux, with jams, juices and nectars and a short line of fine grocery beside them. It works as counter retail: a case, a shelf of gift boxes, and limited runs rather than a standing catalogue.

The Martinique tablet explains the shop

The clearest single product is the Tablette Martinique 72%, and it is worth understanding before anything else. The cocoa is grown and processed in Martinique on a tree to bar model, with harvests drawn from gardens across 13 communes, no chemical inputs, and nothing carried further than 50 km. The beans are never roasted; they are worked below 43°C on stone wheels for five days. The finished bar has two ingredients, cocoa and Martinique cane sugar, and its packaging is fully recyclable. It took a gold medal at the 2022 Concours des Épicures de l'Épicerie Fine.

How to order

Order around the chocolate first: bars, bonbons and the small gâteaux that show the pastry hand at work. Confectionery, jams, juices and nectars fill out a box for taking home, and the seasonal cabinet shifts with the calendar. What you will not find is a boulangerie range, so treat this as a pâtisserie and chocolate counter rather than a place to pick up the morning loaf. The tone is deliberately luxe: small production, French craft, elegant boxes. The wider group ties the boutique to its hotels, restaurants and spa in Saulieu, and its prepared Burgundy dishes extend the same regional argument beyond the sweet counter.