Mon Delice

Mon Delice is a genuine French bakery on East 3rd Avenue, with roots that go back to 1976 when the shop was founded by a French couple, making it one of the oldest continuously operating food businesses in New Smyrna Beach. Current owner Serge Sorese, who grew up in Bormes Les Mimosas in southern France, took over the bakery in 1992 and has run it ever since, carrying forward the authentic French approach the shop was built on. The case at Mon Delice runs through the full range of French bakery staples: authentic French bread, croissants, pies, and custom cakes, alongside specific standout items like strawberry squares, cream horns, key lime tarts, eclairs, cheesecake, apple tarts, and chocolate chip cookies. The bakery also carries wine imports, giving it a slightly broader identity than a pure pastry shop. Fifty years into its life (counting from the 1976 founding), Mon Delice has clearly built the kind of loyal, repeat customer base that keeps a small independent bakery alive across changes in ownership and decades of shifting food trends. Interestingly, Florida corporate records show the original Mon Delice, Incorporated entity as inactive, which typically reflects an administrative filing lapse rather than the business closing, since the bakery’s own website and current storefront confirm it is actively operating under Serge Sorese’s ownership; anyone doing formal due diligence on the business should confirm its current operating entity directly. Sitting on East 3rd Avenue among the Indian River Village cluster of restaurants, Mon Delice gives the strip its dedicated bakery stop, a natural pairing with a coffee run or a light breakfast before continuing on to the beach a couple of miles east. For a taste of genuine French baking with real history behind it, in a city better known for seafood shacks than patisseries, Mon Delice stands out as one of New Smyrna Beach’s most distinctive independent food businesses. A genuine French bakery, run continuously since 1976 under two owners across nearly fifty years, is a rare kind of institution for a small Florida beach city to have, and it reflects a broader pattern in coastal Florida where European immigrants, in this case a French couple and later a French-born owner, have brought authentic Old World food traditions to small American towns and built lasting businesses around them. Mon Delice’s continued presence on East 3rd Avenue gives New Smyrna Beach a genuine patisserie experience that few comparably sized beach towns can claim.