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A thin oval waffle split horizontally while still warm and filled with a paste of butter, sugar and Madagascar vanilla, then wrapped in gold paper.
Meert has traded on Rue Esquermoise since 1761 and is one of the oldest patisseries in France still working. The filled waffle became its signature after Michael Paulus Gislinus Meert, a confectioner of Belgian origin, took the house over in 1849. By 1864 Meert was an official supplier to Leopold I of Belgium, and Charles de Gaulle, born a few streets away, had them sent to the Elysee. The waffle is flat rather than deep, and is meant to be eaten at room temperature rather than hot.
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Méert has traded on Rue Esquermoise in Lille since 1761, and its flat waffle filled with Madagascar vanilla sugar is still the counter's signature.
TipThe waffle is meant to be eaten at room temperature, not hot. The tea room at the same address opens at 12:00 Tuesday to Friday and at 10:00 on Saturday and Sunday.
Boulangerie Brier on Rue Esquermoise in Lille bakes the regional canon, cramique au sucre, palet de dame and a vanilla-filled gaufre of its own.
TipThis is the cheaper place to try a gaufre fourrée before you queue at the famous one up the street.
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