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Places to Eat: Touring Paris' Chocolatiers

File this one under great ideas. Next time you plan a trip anywhere, but specifically Paris, take one day to chart a bike ride visiting the best chocolate boutiques the city has to offer. It’ll be an endorphin overload. Exercise and chocolate! That sounds perfect.

Amy Thomas from the New York Times, discusses her one day journey visiting parisian chocolatiers while using the city’s bike share program – the velib. As she states, “The hedonism began in the center of town with the oldest master on my list, Michel Cluizel (201, rue St.-Honoré; 33-1-42-44-11-66), who has been making chocolate since 1948. A short distance from a Vélib’ station at the intersection of Rues de l’Echelle and St-Honoré, I passed luxury stores flaunting billowy gowns and four-inch Mary Janes and stepped inside what was just as divine: a store where molten chocolate spews from a fountain and the shelves are stocked with bars containing as much as 99 percent cacao.” Click Read More for additional information.