About Us
La Belle Miette is Melbourne's macaron specialist patisserie, founded by two francophiles. Condé Nast Traveler
La Belle Miette means the “beautiful crumb” or, more broadly, “beautiful small thing”. We specialise in small delights – macarons and chocolate bonbons. To complement our belles miettes, we also stock a large range of tea from Mariage Frères.
With four locations spread throughout Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra we hope that our small delights will bring you as much joy as it has us.
About the owners
Maylynn has been a dessert enthusiast and hyperactive baker since she was a child. She loves grand productions – full string orchestras, big hair, Busby Berkeley – so Pierre Hermé’s 20 page recipes instantly resonated with her. She loves the ridiculousness of making ten hour treats that are devoured in seconds.
After years of learning the art from books and accumulating lots of thermometers, she studied professional patisserie in Paris and regularly visits there to conduct ‘dessert research’ (which she is now pretty confident will be tax deductible).
Hugh is a former lawyer and investment banker. He speaks French, having been dragged kicking and screaming to live in the south of France when he was 16.
He joined Maylynn to study the art of macarons in Paris in 2010. They are now married and have two little boys who speak more french than they do!