Plaq

Plaq opened in 2019 on Rue du Nil in Paris's 2nd arrondissement, founded by Sandra Mielenhausen and Nicolas Rozier-Chabert as a bean-to-bar operation that handles the entire process - roasting, grinding, conching and molding - on site rather than buying in couverture. The bars contain only cocoa beans and cane sugar, with beans sourced from Venezuela, Peru, West Papua, Tanzania and Belize, with an emphasis on agroforestry-grown cacao. The shop sells bars, chocolate pastries and hot chocolate, and has since added a second location on Rue du Cherche-Midi in the 6th arrondissement. Coverage from Paris food guides situates it among a small wave of Paris bean-to-bar makers working at production scale inside a retail shop.