Berthillon

Berthillon is a French manufacturer and retailer of luxury ice cream and sorbet, with its primary store on the Île Saint-Louis, in Paris, France. The company is owned and operated by the Chauvin family, descendants of the eponymous Monsieur Berthillon, who from 1954 operated a restaurant called "Le Bourgogne".

Crowds flock to Berthillon in the summer

The ice cream shop became famous in 1961 when a French restaurant guide Gault Millau wrote about "this astonishing ice cream shop hidden in a bistro on the Ile Saint-Louis."[1]

Raymond Berthillon, founder of Berthillon, died on 9 August 2014.[2][3]

References
  1. "Paris mourns beloved founder of ice cream shop famed for its foie gras and lavender flavours and queues that stretch around the block". Retrieved 19 February 2015.
  2. "Décès de l'artisan glacier Raymond Berthillon". Le Figaro.fr (in French). 11 August 2014. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  3. Founder of French Ice-Cream Parlor Raymond Berthillon Dies

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