Thank our stars for sugar rush! There's nothing like it for snapping your attention back to the here and now. Turning heads and making mouths water since 1862, Ladurée was named for its founder, Louis Ernest Ladurée. An artist in more ways than one, Monsieur was also a miller, a poet, and a screenplay writer. Today, Ladurée's pâtisserie are pretty treats in pastel that turn any occasion into cause for celebration.

Sweet tooths shimmied over to Pavilion Kuala Lumpur when Ladurée Malaysia landed on our shores in November 2017. New menu offerings give us good reason to return: try the Ispahan French toast inspired by Pierre Hermé's timeless flavour trio (rose, raspberry and lychee), the Vanilla Cacao French toast if you're a committed chocoholic, or the billowy Vol-au-Vent filled with free-range chicken and morel mushrooms.

You heard it here first: the Parisian tea room will be expanding by way of a second outlet in Bangsar Shopping Centre before the end of 2019. We'll toast to la vie en rose!