Petit-Beurre nantais is a signature dish of France; we have verified places to eat it in Nantes. The rectangular butter biscuit with the scalloped edge that Louis Lefèvre-Utile launched in Nantes in 1886. Start with where to eat Petit-Beurre nantais in Nantes.
Petit-Beurre nantais · Nantes
The rectangular butter biscuit with the scalloped edge that Louis Lefèvre-Utile launched in Nantes in 1886. It is the most copied biscuit shape in France and it still comes off a line in the Nantes vineyard.
Louis Lefèvre-Utile was the son of the couple whose initials became LU, and in 1886 he put out a plain butter biscuit modelled on the English biscuits of the day, with a scalloped border and a stamped face. It took over. By the end of the century the Nantes works were turning out hundreds of kilos of biscuits a day and roughly a third of that was Petit-Beurre, and LU took the Grand Prix for biscuits at the 1900 Exposition Universelle. The old central factories were demolished during the city's rebuilding, but the LU tower still stands beside the Cité des Congrès and is now the Lieu Unique arts centre. Production continues at La Haie-Fouassière.
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