Kelsay J.
Yelp
This place!! ** heart eyes **
First, a lesson. A boulangerie is a bakery, a brasserie is like a cafe. When dining in France, a brasserie may be open all day but doesn't necessarily serve food all day. For instance between 3pm and 7pm you may see a brasserie packed with people, but they will only be serving drinks. A boulangerie will usually also always be open all day but because it is a bakery, there is always something edible available. Often I would find myself hungry at an hour when food is not usually served, so we'd stop into a boulangerie where there was usually an array of sandwiches on fresh baguettes, quiches, croissants and deserts available. Many of the larger ones also have a drink case with sodas, juices and water.
So this boulangerie is like the epitome of cute French bakery. It was a few steps away from our Air BNB and it immediately caught my eye because it was so cute. Our ex-pat friend told us it was the favorite of her and her French husband, so we definitely wanted to try it out. HISTORY LESSON: They also told us that in French neighborhoods or places where boulangeries are close together, they will be closed on opposite days, so that one of them is always open. This, we were told, is because of the French Revolution and the need for bread to always be available. I believe this boulangerie is closed on Wednesday.
The service was always friendly, and you don't need much English in a boulangerie as you can point to everything in the counter that you want. They had everything from bread and croissants to marshmellows and tarts. We tried their croissants which were good and flaky and also a couple of their desserts. I don't even know what they were, to be honest, but you can check my pictures. The chocolate eclair was good, nice rich chocolate in the center. The pastries were pretty typical, I wasn't blow away by this boulangerie more than any others, but as I said the service was good and the shop is super cute. The prices were also average for a boulangerie. About 150 meters down the street toward the intersection and across from Cafe de Coin, there is another slightly larger boulangerie that offered a few more deserts than this one but as I said, this one is the neighborhood favorite of the French native!