Pierre Hermé

In The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list in 2016, French pastry chef and chocolatier Pierre Hermé was named the Best Pastry Chef in the World. According to Vanity Fair, he is also the fourth most important French person in the world.

Hermé, who comes from four generations of Alsatian bakers and pastry makers, moved to Paris at the age of 14 to begin his first apprenticeship under Gaston Lenôtre, who Vogue dubbed “the Picasso of Pastry” and who transformed the art of pastry-making in terms of taste and modernity. In 1998, he and his business partner Charles Znaty founded the Maison Pierre Hermé Paris. The first Pierre Hermé Paris store opened in Tokyo in 1998. A second store, at 72 rue Bonaparte in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, opened its doors in Paris in 2001. Success came quickly, both in Paris and Tokyo. Passionate connoisseurs of fine cuisine were daily introduced to Pierre Hermé’s pastries, macarons, and chocolates as connoisseurs from all over the world flocked to these temples of sweet indulgence.

In rue Cambon in Paris, Hermé and Znaty opened the first Macarons & Chocolats Pierre Hermé Paris store in 2008. They opened the Maison Pierre Hermé, which houses the Atelier de Création, on rue Fortuny in Paris in 2010. Since the inauguration of the Café Dior by Pierre Hermé in Seoul in 2015, the company has had a formal cooperation with the Ritz Carlton group, the Raffles group, and Dior. It is a member of the Comité Colbert. Since 2010, the business has been rapidly growing on the global stage, opening a number of boutiques throughout Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Hermé’s desserts have been offered on All Nippon Airlines since 2012.