L’Ogre De Carrouselberg
Stéphanie Touzet & Matthieu Buchalski
Lille, France
Feast your eyes on the prettiest pastel pastry creations, and cakes sculpted into roses, apples and pine cones in delicate fruit flavors. Everything is a fairytale at this enchanting Lille pâtisserie, starting with the Ogre of Carrouselberg himself, who used to devour children until he discovered a garden full of fresh fruit, which he preferred to young flesh, or so the story goes. The signature P’tits Pouchins are equally magical, small and flaky choux pockets with vanilla and orange blossom cream. L’Ogre de Carrouselberg’s founders, Stéphanie Touzet et Matthieu Buchalski, are a couple who met in Paris and changed career together, with Touzet training in pastry and Buchalski putting his design experience for food brands to use for their debut joint project. This is grown up pastry, but always delivered with a light and playful edge.
