It’s one of the most popular dessert in France, Opera is dedicated to chocolate lovers. Did you know this pastry was named in 1950 by Cyriaque Gavillon, a pastry chef who owned the emblematic Dalloyau bakery ? The shape of this pastry was inspired by the rectangular shape of the Opera Garnier located a stone’s throw his bakery, and It was a tribute to the “rats”, the little dancers he was seeing everyday next to Dalloyau.
