A photograph doesn't do it justice, clearly. Or at least not a photograph taken by me.
This thing was chewy and lightly chocolatey, with a few chocolate chips on the bottom to hammer it home. I don't think I'd ever had a financier before, and I don't know exactly what to compare it to. Sort of brownie texture, but less heavy, perhaps?
The Payard chocolate financier comes in an assorted box:
I'm sure these are all very good, but I did not eat the rest of them, because they are not chocolate.
BOTTOM LINE: Francois Payard is an excellent French bakery. Highly recommended.
As respectful disagreement is often conducive to good discourse, I would simply opine that I have tried probably a dozen things by Francois Payard across multiple of his stores, and I have been disappointed every single time, with the exception of one small item at the chocolate show two years ago.
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