What Rose Bakery does

Rose Bakery is a family-owned French tea room and restaurant concept founded by Rose and Jean-Charles Carrarini, operating eight locations across Paris. The business traces its origins to London, where it operated for approximately 35 years before establishing the Paris network roughly 20 years ago. The offering spans sit-down tea room and restaurant service, takeaway, a fine grocery shop, and catering services targeting both private and corporate clients, including a long-standing clientele drawn from the fashion industry.

The company's footprint reflects a deliberate site-selection strategy that pairs street-level tea rooms with embedded presences inside culturally significant venues, including a kiosk at the Jardin des Tuileries and a location within Le Bon Marché. This distribution choice positions Rose Bakery as a curated, lifestyle-oriented brand rather than a high-volume restaurant chain, with pricing and menu curation aligned to that positioning. Operational scope also extends into catering, with menu updates extending into 2025 to support event and corporate bookings, including a recurring fashion-industry client base.

Rose Bakery operates as a private, family-controlled business with no disclosed outside funding, technology platform, or digital transformation signals. The model is entirely direct-to-consumer, with revenue derived from in-venue dining, takeaway purchases, retail grocery sales, and catering contracts. Headcount and revenue figures are not disclosed, and the absence of any visible corporate infrastructure (no investor communications, no job postings, no tech stack disclosures) points to a closely-held lifestyle enterprise rather than a scaling hospitality group.

Name

Rose Bakery

Website

https://rosebakery.fr

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Rose Bakery is a family-owned French tea room and restaurant business operating eight locations across Paris, serving walk-in guests, takeaway customers, and corporate and fashion-industry catering clients from prime cultural and retail venues.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Tea Room and Restaurant Dining

NAICS

Restaurants and Other Eating Places (72251), Full-Service Restaurants (722511)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810)

akta.pro primary industry

Cafe-Bakeries (Bakery + Coffee/Foodservice) (THAFAFAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Cafe-Bakeries (Coffee + Pastry Focus) (THAFADAG), Bread & Pastry Specialty Stores (CRAHAGAC)

Keywords

• Tea room services
• Homemade cuisine
• Event catering
• Artisan bakery
• Organic food retail

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices8 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Restaurant and Tea Room Dining: In-restaurant dining services at multiple Paris locations offering lunch, afternoon tea, and weekend brunch with homemade healthy cuisine.
2. Takeaway Service: Takeaway offerings at the Martyrs location for customers seeking food to-go.
3. Fine Grocery Shop (Epicerie Fine): Sale of artisanal and gourmet food products through the shop location.
4. Catering and Private Events: Catering services for corporate events, cocktail receptions, and private dining with lunch formulas and cocktail dînatoire options. Long-standing client relationships in the fashion industry.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Rose Bakery operates a multi-location tea room and restaurant concept in Paris, serving homemade Anglo-French cuisine with organic fruits and vegetables. Offerings include in-restaurant dining (breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, weekend brunch), takeaway service, a fine grocery shop (Épicerie Fine), and catering for corporate and private events. The business also sells traditional items such as carrot cakes, scones, quiches, and salads.

Product overview

Rose Bakery operates a multi-location tea room and restaurant concept featuring homemade Anglo-French cuisine. The company offers four core services: Restaurant & Tea Room locations across Paris (including Martyrs, Le Bon Marché, Jeu de Paume, Jardin de Tuileries, Maison de Balzac, BnF Richelieu, and Musée de la Vie Romantique), Takeaway service, a Fine Grocery Shop, and Event Catering. All offerings emphasize homemade, healthy food using organic ingredients with influences from world cuisines.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Restaurant & Tea Room Traditional Anglo-French tea room offering breakfast (8:45-11h), lunch (11h-16h), afternoon tea (until 18h), and weekend brunch. Serves homemade, healthy cuisine with organic ingredients at multiple Paris locations.
• Takeaway Service Takeaway counter at the Martyrs location offering the same homemade dishes available in the tea rooms for customers to take food to-go.
• Shop (Épicerie Fine) Fine grocery shop at the Martyrs location offering artisanal products and specialty food items for retail purchase.
• Catering Service Catering service for events in Paris offering lunch formulas and cocktail dinatoires, featuring homemade quality cuisine with seasonal fruits and vegetables. Targets corporate events, cocktail receptions, and private dining.

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Emerging players

• Café Kitsuné: Paris-based modern cafe-bakery and coffee concept with multiple locations, offering pastries, brunch, and specialty coffee. Comparable as a contemporary Paris cafe-bakery targeting fashion-conscious consumers with a strong lifestyle brand.
• Le Bon Marché (tea room concepts): Le Bon Marché department store hosts multiple premium cafe-tea room concepts alongside Rose Bakery. Comparable as co-located premium tea room operators within the same prestigious Paris retail institution, sharing a similar fashion-conscious clientele.

Direct peers

• Maison Boissier: Historic French bakery and patisserie with Paris locations offering pastries, teas, and catering. Comparable as a multi-location Parisian bakery-tea room with heritage positioning and B2B catering services.
• Mariage Frères: French tea company with tea room locations in Paris serving afternoon tea, light meals, and pastries. Comparable as a Paris-based tea room concept with a strong heritage brand and British/French tea tradition overlap.
• Angelina Paris: Historic Parisian tea room and patisserie known for its Belle Époque interior, hot chocolate, and pastries. Directly comparable as a heritage Paris tea room concept with premium positioning and tourist/fashion clientele.
• Carette: Paris-based tea room and patisserie with multiple locations offering brunch, afternoon tea, and French pastries. Comparable as a multi-location Paris cafe-bakery with similar service model and target clientele.
• Le Pain Quotidien: Belgian-origin bakery-cafe chain with locations worldwide, offering organic bread, pastries, brunch, and casual dining. Comparable as a multi-location cafe-bakery concept with organic and homemade positioning.
• Ladurée: Iconic French cafe-bakery and patisserie with multiple Paris locations serving afternoon tea, brunch, and signature macarons. Directly comparable as a multi-location premium tea room and bakery concept serving fashion-conscious clientele.
• Poilâne: Iconic Paris bakery known for its sourdough bread and pastries, with retail locations and a tea room concept. Comparable as a heritage Parisian bakery with a tea room offering and similar homemade, traditional positioning.

Regional players

• La Maison du Chocolat: Premium French chocolate and pastry brand with Paris boutiques, including tea room and cafe concepts. Comparable as a heritage French premium food brand with retail locations and gift/catering channels.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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