Farinoman Fou

To appeal to bread connoisseurs, in Aix as in any part of France, you need to know your dough. Judging by the lines typically spilling out of this shop onto place des Prêcheurs, artisanal boulanger Benoît Fradette clearly does. The bakery has no need to invest in a fancy shopfront – customers jostle for space with bread ovens and dough-mixing tubs.