Prior to coming to Pierre Marcolini, I had never been a fan of macarons. I had always found them to be uninteresting in terms of flavor and overall, just plain boring. However, we stopped in the Galeries Lafayette and as soon as we entered we were greeted by free samples of Pierre Marcolini macarons. I'm not one to turn away something free, so I tried their passion fruit macaron whereupon I had a Costco moment--when you try a free sample and really like it (zebra popcorn for me was one time).
Unlike the flavorless macarons I've had before, I found this one to be amazing! The filling was bursting with flavor. I rushed my family over to try samples and found others to also be delicious. I'm generally not one for hyberbole, but this was one of the best things I had eaten during our 2 weeks in France.
The young salesperson was very helpful and very chatty. She told us this history of PM, which went in one ear and out the other as I was busy trying to figure out what flavor to buy. But she was very nice and spoke good English.
My only regret is that we didn't try the chocolates. read more