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French Ice Cream De Luxe
At le macaron, we see Provence in the neon yellow color of the mango flavor French ice cream that yells, "Choose me!" but we go with chocolate. Very rich tasting, this treat fits well with the other offerings: handmade macarons and artisan chocolates.
Rosalie Guillem and her daughter, Audrey Guillem Saba, opened le macaron, a French pastry shop in May 2009. From Provence, the mother-daughter team brings a variety of European confections to our town. Le macaron also serves coffee and espresso to enjoy with French pastries at cafe tables inside or outside.
Several large photographs of macarons by Chris Gladdue illustrate the main attraction. A raspberry-painted wall and bright candy-colored chairs add to the confectionery decor.
We enjoy nibbling on macarons or petite madeleines and sipping coffee while we watch people stroll by on The Circle. Last time we noticed an enticing blue-colored macaron. As it turned out, the macaron was blackcurrant and delicious.
When my wife travels north to visit her family, she takes along exquisite boxes of the revered French pastry from le macaron.
Try the Norman Love Confections available locally at le macaron. You no longer need to drive to Ft. Myers for a tin of these coveted handmade chocolates.
Photo: Louis Wery
le macaron
382 St. Armands Circle
Sarasota, Florida 34236 USA
Telephone: 941.552.8872
Hours
10am-9pm Sundays - Thursdays
10am-10pm Fridays
le macaron
Beyond Amuse-Bouche
Gorgeous Dessert Features Macaron
Macaron à la crème de vanille de Bora Bora et cerises rôties, sorbet griotte par le Chef Pâtissier Emmanuel Lebled
Photo: Hotel de la Paix Geneve
A Portrait of Five Macarons
After the shoot came the nibble!
Five darling macarons nestled in a narrow white box and swaddled in raspberry-colored tissue. My wife and I oohed and aahed our way through this divine pastry handmade by le macaron. The orange macaron offered the biggest surprise, a burst of ctirus flavor tantalizing the mouth with Floridian flavor.
Next we shared the mocha macaron with chocolate filling. Yummy!
These sandwich-like pastries with a ganache in the middle come in a dizzying variety of flavors. Best of all, le macaron serves these delights at their pastry shop on St. Armands Circle.
Photo: Louis Wery
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The Patisserie on St Armands Intrigues Gourmands
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- Le macaron french pastries: Nichée au coeur du très joli quartier de St Armands Circle, à Sarasota, le macaron est une petite boutique qui a récemment ouvert ses portes (fin août 2009) et qui est certainement, si l'on en juge à la qualité de ses produits, promise à un b...
- Longboat Key: Key Life: Business Observer - The Observer Group
- Macaron to open soon on St. Armands CircleRosalie Guillen and her daughter, Audrey Guillen Saba, will open Le Macaron pastry shop at 382 St. Armands Circle. They hope to open the French bakery...
- Des macarons pour tous les gouts - Avis de voyageurs sur Le Macaron, Sarasota - TripAdvisor
- Le Macaron: Des macarons pour tous les gouts - consultez avis de voyageurs, photos, les meilleures offres et comparez les prix pour Sarasota, Floride sur TripAdvisor.
- French bakery opens on St. Armands Circle - The Observer Group
- Le Macaron will serve freshly baked pastries seven days a week.
- Macarons | West Coast Woman
- No need to head to the Champs Elysées and make a beeline to Ladurée for macarons. Now you can find the colorful and flavorful sweet French treats right here on St. Armands.
- Progressive dinner - St. Armands Circle | The Observer Group
- St. Armands Circle may be a top spot for tourists, but it also plays host to many gourmet restaurants and yummy dessert stops. On a recent chilly January evening, comfort food was the name of the game. Take this trip around the Circle and experience the c...
- Review for Le Macaron | Yelp.com
- Review of Le Macaron "I stopped into Le Macaron while on vacation in the Sarasota area and fell in love with the shop. The macarons were delicious especially the crunchy hazelnut and the walnut flavors. We bought six macarons for $10.60…
- Le Macaron | G Gallery on Flickr
- This was a shoot done for a new French Pastry shop on St. Armand's. 76 photos by Chris of G Gallery.
- Le Macaron %u2022 The Gem of French Pastries | Focus Magazine of SWFL
- AUTHENTIC FRENCH PASTRIES NOW AVAILABLE IN SARASOTA
The co-owners, from Provence, France, Rosalie Guillem and her daughter, Audrey Saba Guillem, announce the opening of Le Macaron, the ideal location for hand-made, gourmet pastries called macarons.The macaron, perfected in France, has a long history...more
A le macaron Photo Gallery
A Look Inside the Delightful Patisserie on St. Armands Circle
Rosalie Guillem, Audrey Guillem Saba and friend at le macaron. Photo: Louis Wery
Blog Posts about Macarons
Fans Write about Yummy Treats
- Celebrate National Macaroon Day
- by Marisa Miyasaki, Community Manager for Menuism.com Macarons have become wildly popular, frequently leading to confusion between the terms macaron and macaroon. Although we've seen the terms used interchangeably, the different spellings do, in fact, ...
- Foodies delight as fussy French cookies debut at Macaron Bee
- Georgetown Cupcake may still attract hoards of tourists to their sickeningly sweet lair on M street, but chic pastry shops in New York and LA switched to serving macarons several years ago. The French confectionaries are devilishly hard to make, ...
- Food for Thought: Macarons That Will Melt in Your Mouth
- The benefit of making your own macarons at home is that you can use the best ingredients, making for a real treat to have with your coffee. (JG Photo/Petty Elliott) A great article about these delicate delights - macarons!
- Let's Blog!
- By Clyde Moore Gregory and Geraldine Guillem of Le Macaron. Drop by to see them and have some delish macarons! First, getting something which is not pleasant out of the way. Whilst on Park Avenue today I learned that there was a robbery on Tuesday ...
So You Want to Make a Macaron?
French Recipe Designed for American Kitchens
Chocolate Desserts by Pierre Herme
Amazon Price: $24.00 (as of 06/01/2012)
Celebrated as one of France's greatest (and most prolific) pastry chefs, Pierre Herme delivers a spectacular collection of recipes translated for American home cooks by Dorie Greenspan, a respected food writer and author.
For a FREE copy, check with your neighborhood public library.
How To Make a Macaron
Pastry Chef Give You the 1-2-3
Recipes for Macarons
Variations on a Tasty Theme
- How to Make Macarons | Serious Eats : Recipes
- My friend Lisa makes passion fruit macarons at Jacques Torres Chocolate Haven. I'm ashamed to admit that while I have eaten many macarons, I've never made them on my own. Thankfully, plenty of other people much more skilled in the...
- Making French Macarons: Instructions & Recipes - David Lebovitz
- Find recipes & advice on making French macarons & links to places in Paris that make the best macarons, from pastry chef David Lebovitz author of The Sweet Life in Paris and The Great Book of Chocolate.
- Syrup and Tang — La Macaronicité 1: an introduction to the macaron
- This is the first article in a special series about one of the world's favourite petit fours. Two delicate almond meringue domes are sandwiched together with a flavored filling to become le macaron.
- Macaron | WikiMama, recipes and cooking tips
- After many comparison, searching and testing, the /www.morelchocolatier.com/vw/fs/p002.htm" target="_blank">Christophe Morel, a Quebecois chef specializing in Chocolate. It tells all the tricks you need to know about making smooth, ruffled circumference, flat base, domed top macaron. A good macaron should be also melted into mouth and mildly moist.
- Macarons | A La Cuisine!
- I have never been to Paris, but when I eventually go there someday, I plan to visit the renowned patisseries of Pierre Herme and Laduree to try out all their macarons. Without a doubt, macarons are my favorite type of cookie. And since Jennifer of the Domestic Goddess has proclaimed cookies to
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We love these small, round cakes, crisp on the outside, smooth and soft in the middle, are made every morning at le macaron on St Armands Circle in Sarasota. Often the proprietor Rosalie Guillem creates special new flavors to surprise our taste buds.
Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/charlottemarillet/4061285752/in/set-72157622577707645/"
How to Eat a Macaron
Follow Three Easy Steps
Step 1: Hold macaron between your thumb and forefinger. Look at the structure. Step 2: Take a tiny bite.
Step 3: Take another bite and savor this gift of good taste.
Adapted from Veronica Perez of Petites Bouchees located in Glen Allen, Virginia USA. Her custom dessert service specializes in unique, stylized dessert tables. Perez earned a certificate from Pierre Herme at the French Pastry School in Chicago.
Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/johndunne/4122084289/"
A Profusion of Macarons
The History of the Macaron
French Royals Ate Macarons at Versailles in the 1700s
- The Story of the Laduree Macaron | Laduree
- The story of the Ladurée macaroon starts with Pierre Desfontaines, second cousin of Louis Ernest Ladurée, who at the beginning of the 20th century first thought of taking two macaroon shells and joining them with a delicious ganache filling.
- History of Macaroons | The Nibble
- THE NIBBLE, Great Food Finds, is an online gourmet food magazine with thousands of product reviews of food and beverages, plus reference articles like the history of macaroons.
- Introduction to French Macarons | Serious Eats
- When most people hear the word macaroon, they think of a chewy mound of shredded coconut, lightly sweetened and held together by egg whites. That's not what I'm here to talk about. The macaron that I will expound upon...
Dorie Takes You for a Parisan Adventure
And She Stirs up Scrumptious Memories
Paris Sweets: Great Desserts From the City's Best Pastry Shops
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For a FREE copy, check with your neighborhood public library.
Vibrantly-colored Macarons Delight Marie Antoinette and Her Ladies in Waiting
Sofia Coppola Featured the Confection in Her 2006 Movie
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Slip on these Sweet Shoes
The Perfects Flats to Wear While Nibbling a Macaron
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Macarons Take the Cake in Japan
Everone's Crazy for the French Dessert
I Love Macarons
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Hisako Ogita studied the art of patisserie at the Ecole Culinaire Kunitachi Tsuji Institute of Pattiserie in Japan after graduating from the university. She worked for a French pastry chef, Chandon, in Tokyo for two years and then became an assistant to cuisine researcher Hiroko Ishihara, while enhancing her baking skills at another bakery in Tokyo. After her marriage, she lived in Nagoya for eight years and then moved to her present home in Musashino city, Tokyo. She has written Book of Roll Cakes and Confectionery So Deliciously Made with a Hand Mixer, both published by Shufu-to-Seikatsusha.
For a FREE copy, check with your neighborhood public library.
A Storybook about Goodie Shops in Paris
A Good Read With or Without Calories
The Patisseries of Paris: Chocolatiers, Tea Salons, Ice Cream Parlors, and more
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Find out when Parisians-in-the-know buy goodies just as they come out of the oven, the museums with the most stylish cafes, and other charming spots for light meals.
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Girls Just Want to Have Fun on The Circle
le macaron staff joins in when St Armands throws a party
Rosalie Guillem and her staff at le macaron dressed one of the classical Roman statues on St. Armands Circle as a mermaid for FRIGHT NIGHT! a new Halloween event. Click here to see more photos taken at the Halloween event held on The Circle.St. Armands Circle hosts many events during the year. Car shows and arts festivals prove very popular with Sarasota locals and visitors. Click here for more details.
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What's Your Favorite Goodie at le macaron?
Help Us Sample Your Favorite FLavors
I like framboise (strawberry) and my wife prefers chocolate. What flavor do you favor? Or do you choose the delectable Norman Love chocolates?
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Tolovaj
Apr 9, 2012 @ 4:27 am | delete
- Now I have to write a note not to read this lens never ever more before lunch...
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brynimagire
Mar 26, 2012 @ 6:53 am | delete
- Yumm. I can't no more.
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TheFrenchLife
Nov 20, 2011 @ 10:23 am | delete
- Yum yum yum! I love macarons.
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KarenCookieJar
Oct 29, 2011 @ 11:51 am | delete
- I keep seeing these on top chef just desserts, they look really cute, but I've never had one!
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SaintFrantic
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- The color are just unbelievable.Thanks
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JoshK47
Jun 27, 2011 @ 5:32 pm | delete
- Never been there, though the pictures look delicious!
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- Never been there. But I love this lens. It's delicious to read through.
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hessa_johnson Mar 30, 2011 @ 8:24 am | delete
- Have not been there, but have tried the macarons at Pierre Marcolini in Brussels! YUM!
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- Never been there but sounds wonderful! Will definitely try a recipe for them.
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TheLittleCardShop
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- Macarons one of my favorite desserts! Great lens you made my hungry :) Lensrolled your lens to my Troyes France a lovely medieval city
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Philippians468
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- have never been there but i do hope to drop by one day! cheers
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Aquavel
Jan 6, 2011 @ 11:19 pm | delete
- Chocolate hazelnut looms far above the rest and then pistachio.
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jackiebolen
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- Wow...they look so delicious!
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JaguarJulie Dec 6, 2010 @ 9:33 am | delete
- Mmmm ... let me send you my address ... pistachio please.
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Macarons at Starbucks & McCafe
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Made in France by Chateau Blanc "exclusively for Starbucks," the $9.95 gift box includes two pieces of each of the following flavors: coffee, pistachio, raspberry, vanilla, chocolate, and lemon.
As for McCafe? "I took a pistachio," wrote Mike Steinberger, author of Au Revoir to All That: Food, Wine, and the End of France and Slate wine columnist . "Not bad, I thought, but no Laduree. As if reading my mind, Petit immediately chimed in, 'We get the macarons from Holder, the company that owns Laduree.' Touche."
- Chicago's Best Macaroons, Macarons: Where To Find The Tasty, Tiny Treats In ...
- As Menuism points out, macarons -- which originated in France -- have been become an increasingly popular treat here in the States, and perhaps that popularity is at the root of some confusion over what constitutes a macaron versus what is a macaroon.
- Celebrate National Macaroon Day
- by Marisa Miyasaki, Community Manager for Menuism.com Macarons have become wildly popular, frequently leading to confusion between the terms macaron and macaroon. Although we've seen the terms used interchangeably, the different spellings do, in fact, ...
- Foodies delight as fussy French cookies debut at Macaron Bee
- Georgetown Cupcake may still attract hoards of tourists to their sickeningly sweet lair on M street, but chic pastry shops in New York and LA switched to serving macarons several years ago. The French confectionaries are devilishly hard to make, ...
- Let's Blog!
- By Clyde Moore Gregory and Geraldine Guillem of Le Macaron. Drop by to see them and have some delish macarons! First, getting something which is not pleasant out of the way. Whilst on Park Avenue today I learned that there was a robbery on Tuesday ...
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