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 café and hotel called "Le Bourgogne".[2]

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."[3] They are known for using fresh and high quality ingredients [4] and keep the recipe of their sorbet (i.e. the proportion of milk and egg) secret.[5]

Raymond Berthillon, founder of Berthillon, died on 9 August 2014.[6][7]

References

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  2. Berthillon - Notre maison retrieved 2025-08-05^
  3. Famed Parisian ice cream maker Raymond Berthillon dead at 90 oregonlive, 2014-08-11, retrieved 2020-11-11^
  4. Maison Berthillon visitparisregion.com, retrieved 2023-01-02^
  5. Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau. Glacier Berthillon - Paris tourist office en.parisinfo.com, retrieved 2023-01-02^
  6. Décès de l'artisan glacier Raymond Berthillon Le Figaro.fr, 11 August 2014, retrieved 9 October 2019^
  7. Inti Landauro. Founder of French Ice-Cream Parlor Raymond Berthillon Dies Wall Street Journal, 2014-08-11, retrieved 2020-11-11^