Librairie Gourmande

Librairie Gourmande has been the essential destination for food and drink book lovers in Paris since its founding in 1985, when Geneviève and Marcel Baudon opened the shop as a specialist resource for cookery and oenology titles. Now in its 40th year, the bookshop has been led since 2007 by passionate owner Déborah Dupont Daguet, whose vision has transformed it into an internationally recognized institution of culinary literature. After spending a period in the Halles district, Librairie Gourmande has recently relocated to a bright, newly designed space at 50 Rue Vavin in the 6th arrondissement, close to Montparnasse, featuring an architectural interior by Studio Vivace. The collection now spans over 20,000 references, organized thematically for ease of discovery across everyday cooking, world gastronomy, vegetarian and plant-based cuisine, pastry, bread-making, beverages, and the humanities of food. The shop stocks a remarkable range of formats, from accessible recipe books and culinary comics to rare antiquarian volumes, out-of-print editions, and academic texts on food history and culture. A dedicated children’s section introduces young readers to the pleasures of cooking and gastronomy. Librairie Gourmande is equally a cultural meeting place, regularly hosting author signings, talks, and events. Serving professional chefs, food students, collectors, and enthusiastic home cooks alike, it remains the authoritative address in Paris for the literature of the table. A second location operates at the Cité Internationale de la Gastronomie et du Vin in Dijon.