Florian Poirot

Florian Poirot, a French pâtissier and UK Pastry Champion, opened his patisserie in Malton's Talbot Yard in 2017 with his wife Céline, and in 2024 opened a second shop on the Shambles, York's famously crooked medieval street. Macarons, éclairs, laminated pastry made to competition standard, sold from a personal-name business that has grown from a market stall on the strength of the work alone. On a street more used to fudge and magnets, it is the real French thing. Buy more than you mean to.