Le Pain Médiéval — Restaurant in Carpentras

Lovely bakery with an awfully friendly proprietor who is only too happy to deal with my mangling of the French language, and still press on and ask me if I'd prefer baguette A or baguette B (one was longer, but thinner than the other.. mm.. crusty). Of particular note, I'd recommend stumping up and learning enough french to ask for the specialty baguette au levain naturel, it's got a brilliant crust, good crumb, and wonderful flavour. As with any good bakery, there are likely to be lines around about 10am and get in early (as in, 8am early) to guarantee chocolate croissants in your bread basket, or be prepared to sup on pain au raisin which are also good, but well - they're not...

Nice bakery in a lovely village, opened every day during the high season. Lovely choice of baguettes and viennoiseries. Not 5☆ because the viennoiseries were sometimes over baked and the bread under baked. Very nice...

This is a really nice neighborhood bakery. They not only have several different types of bread, from baguettes to freeform loaves but also pastries and fruit filled tarts. This is a loaf of their whole...