Maison Valentine is a French pâtisserie and boulangerie tucked around the corner from Lincoln Road in South Beach, with a cozy indoor dining room and patio seating for brunch, lunch, or an afternoon coffee. The display case is the main draw — gorgeous entremets, choux pastries with creative fillings, and viennoiserie sit alongside more substantial options like a baguette filled with merguez sausage and a proper croque monsieur. The dining room runs quiet, making it as suited to a solo meal as to settling in with a laptop.
Pastry chef Stéphane Merlat, trained at the Ducasse school in France, leads the kitchen, drawing on French pastry technique for the shop's cakes, quiches, and daily-made pastries.
Pastry chef Stéphane Merlat, trained at the Ducasse school in France, leads the kitchen, drawing on French pastry technique for the shop's cakes, quiches, and daily-made pastries.