Paris · ice cream
Bachir
A ninety-year-old Lebanese family ice cream house whose Paris counters draw queues on the strength of a genuinely different technique (mastic, salep) rather than a French or Italian one — a useful contrast case for a city record built around the pastry-glacier question, precisely because it does not fit that lineage at all.
What to order
Achta, named as the house specialty on the official site and described in identical terms by Arab News.
What we know
- Founded 1936 in Bikfaya, Lebanon by two brothers who married two sisters and began making ice cream in the family's back yard, per the house's own history and Arab News
- Certified organic ingredients named specifically: mastic, orange blossom water and rose water, per the official site
- Signature achta: pistachio, milk-flower cream and orange blossom under crushed pistachio, with mastic giving it its characteristic elasticity, per Arab News' description
- Paris presence began with a first boutique at 58 rue Rambuteau, a second opened 2020 at 7 rue Tardieu, per the official site
- French media attention specifically noted by the house and by Arab News: France Inter (2020) and LCI (2019) both covered the Paris boutiques
- Status
- open
- Address
- 58 rue Rambuteau, 75003 Paris
- Maker
- Founded in Bikfaya, Lebanon in 1936 by brothers Edouard and Maurice Bachir; French operations run by GLACE BACHIR FRANCE, a separate entity created in 2016
- Opened
- 2017
- Website
- bachir.fr/en
- Last checked
- 2026-08-21
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