Sydney J.
Yelp
I've been wanting to try Belmo for a while, and I happened to be in the area on Tuesday evening, so I decided to stop in and buy some pastries. I got a blueberry pomegranate pistachio Turkish delight (they have several different varieties, most involve pistachio, fruits, and/or hazelnut) and a fruit tart; they had multiple kinds of fruit tarts that have different fruits, some had bananas, tangerines, or kiwi, but I chose to get one that was almost all strawberries.
The Turkish delight was a little too sweet to me. It's quite dense and chewy. I couldn't really make out the blueberry taste because it was so sweet but other than that, it was decent.
The fruit tart was pretty good, it was mostly sweet and custardy, the strawberry itself tasted tart which I thought was a good counterbalance to the sweetness of the custard. There was only a little bit of blueberries. I did have a few alarming moments where something tasted almost mold-like to me, but I believed it was just my sensitive taste buds reacting to something in the strawberries or custard.
I noticed that a lot of their non-French pastries are behind glass, are not labeled, and do not have price listed, which is not great for those of us with social anxiety since it requires you to ask many questions of the workers. The French pastries were labeled with the name and price which is great, but they were out in the open without covering, which makes me a bit concerned about how sanitary it would be if customers come in and cough or sneeze over them (especially since masking is not required.)
I do appreciate the large variety of options offered, however. They also sell tea, coffee, cheesecake, and more savory sandwiches/cafe food.
They have lots of small tables with fake flowers outside if you want to sit and enjoy your drink and snacks right outside.