Pictured: The Salmon Omelette from Rendez-Vous French Bakery. Photo by Olivia Liang.

The salmon omelette melts in your mouth—golden, basil-encrusted eggs wrapped around succulent pink meat, smothered in a medley of cheddar, monterey jack, cream cheese and bursting cherry tomatoes. Sip Orangina or Amélie Latourelle Chardonnay, then end sweetly with a Rendez-Vous Cookie, scenically complete with an Eiffel Tower cutout in the center and a powdered sugar top. With French chit chat behind the counters and relaxed conversations amidst sips of Café au Lait, you sink into Parisian scenes with any and every bite.

Clark Road has never looked so chic.

Apple turnovers, flaky croissants, Le Croque-Monsieur, custard eclairs—Joël and Anne-Sophie Garcia, veteran bakers from Montblanc, France, dish out French specialties to the sweet teeth and hankering stomachs of Sarasota at Rendez-Vous French Bakery. Open for breakfast and lunch on Clark Road and Siesta Drive, Tuesday–Sunday, these masters of french gastronomy have prepared France on a fork.

Pictured: The Salmon Omelette from Rendez-Vous French Bakery. Photo by Olivia Liang.

Rendez-Vous French Bakery, 5336 Clark Rd. and 2117 Siesta Dr., Sarasota.