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Our dish — the plate we'd order here firstThick drinking chocolate
Where it comes fromParis' own
In 1659 David Chaillou won the right to sell chocolate in Paris, and kept it until 1688. Angelina's tea room on the rue de Rivoli has poured its thick chocolate since 1903.
Sources: Chocolatier page (David Chaillou, Visit Paris Region; Angelina.
At Angelina Rivoli
Blended from three African cocoas, from Niger, Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, to a recipe the house says it has kept secret for over a century.
From Angelina Rivoli's own menu and pages, as we read them in October 2026.
French · salon de thé (tearoom) · pâtisserie · Tuileries, Paris
226 Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris
A Belle Époque tearoom under the arcades of the rue de Rivoli, now the first of many salons under its name. This room is where both its signatures began.
We'd add
Chestnut cream piped over meringue and whipped cream
Angelina's tea room on the rue de Rivoli has served the mont-blanc, chestnut cream piped over meringue and whipped cream, since it opened in 1903.
Rumpelmayer's own creation, the house says, with chestnuts from the Ardèche; its shape is said to follow a woman's bob of the 1900s.
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