With over 50 of the most stunning ice-cream flavours in Europe, Berthillon just has to be visited by every ice cream accifianado who visits Paris. Though it has branches all over Paris, including the Champs-Elysees, it is still worth visiting the chain's flagship branch on Ile. St.-Louis.

The ice-cream parlours are not difficult to find : just follow the line of detemrined Parisians queueing round the block for France's finest ice cream. The ice creams can be divided into glaces ( milk ice-creams) and sorbets (luscious fruit icecreams made without any cream or milk). These range from the wickedly rich and sophisticated chocolate ice cream, a devilshly dark and rich concoction; to the simple elegance of the stunning vanilla ice-cream, the best we've tasted in Europe, with crushed vanilla pods swilrled into a deep, intense vanilla ice cream. This is also the best place for those who swear by creamy American-style diary ice-cream to try the very best of European sorbets, which bring out the deepest fruit flavours without any of the milk or cream padding that Haagan Dazs, Ben and Jerry's and Baskin Robbins rely on.

At Berthillon, the sorbets are simply stunning. Flavours range from the deliciously sharp and tangy lemon sorbet, to the delicate lightness of the melon sorbet, to the intense sensation of the delightfully fragrant strawberry sorbet. For reasonably priced ice-cream of the highest quality, look no futher than Berthillon. It is a revelation.