Dalloyau is a Paris-based food company founded in 1682. Dalloyau is a family-owned and
independent business
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. In 1993, Nadine Gavillon-Bernardé became the company's CEO. Since 2001, the company is a member of the "
Comité Colbert
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''Métiers'' or Trade Sectors
The association is divided into thirteen métiers o ...
". Dalloyau opened its first shop abroad in 1982 in
Tokyo. By 2009, Dalloyau had opened 31 shops.
History
In 1682, Charles Dalloyau worked for Louis XIV. Dalloyau and his brothers worked for the Court as "Officiers de bouche", the highest French gastronomy distinction at the time. In 1802, Jean-Baptiste Dalloyau founded the "Dalloyau, house of gastronomy". He settled in Paris at
rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, the current address of Dalloyau's main Paris shop.
Opera Cake: Dalloyau's most famous pastry
This cake was invented in 1955 by Cyriaque Gavillon from Dalloyau. He wanted to create a new cake shape with visible layers and for which only one bite would give the whole cake's taste. It is his spouse, Andrée Gavillon, that named it "Opéra" in tribute to the auditorium of the
Palais Garnier
The Palais Garnier (, Garnier Palace), also known as Opéra Garnier (, Garnier Opera), is a 1,979-seatBeauvert 1996, p. 102. opera house at the Place de l'Opéra in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was built for the Paris Opera from ...
. The Opera is a rectangular cake composed of three thin layers of almond
sponge cake soaked in
coffee syrup alternating between layers of coffee
butter cream
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Buttercream is commonly flavored with vanilla. Other common flavors a ...
and chocolate glaze topped with
ganache.
Points of sale
In 2016, Dalloyau has eleven points of sale in France: 10 in
Ile-de-France and one in
Marseille.
Dalloyau also has two private reception areas: the Petit-Palais in Domaine de Chantilly and the Domaine de Vert-Mont in Rueil-Malmaison. Abroad, Dalloyau opened its first overseas boutique in 1982 in Tokyo, Japan. Since 2018, Dalloyau runs a network of franchises with 28 stores and corners abroad: twenty in Japan, four in Hong Kong,
DALLOYAU Hong Kong
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.
References
External links
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Sources
* Le grand Larousse gastronomique, 2007, page 595
* Archives of the "Château de Chantilly"
* Laurent Baudoin, historian
* Dominique Michel, food historian
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Shops in Paris
Food retailers of France