WHERE TO EAT The best Sablé in the world (according to food experts)

"These sables are simultaneously crisp but buttery, mildly sweet, golden-edged cookies and about as far as you can get from the “punishment” they translate to. Can a butter cookie alone make a trip worthwhile? Do I even have to tell you what I think?"

"Greenspan believes that they are the most important innovation in cookies since Toll House. They are definitely sablés, but also very American in their explosive crunch and addictive combination of salt, chocolate and the caramel warmth of brown sugar."

"Made with simple ingredients, sablés have several varieties. Fine cookie (half-salt) or the traditional with sweet butter, one has to choose."

"We would recommend you the "diamond sablés", they are just fantastic..."

"Among the specialties of Sébastien Dégardin, it is impossible to miss out on his chocolate sablé."

"The triangular bars of coconut rounded out the selection, as did the chocolate sablés with a touch of sea salt. And for those who think that Paris is full of unsmiling faces, there are smiley sablé cookies guaranteed to cheer you up."