Nancy W.
Yelp
I've been meaning to go here for awhile now and finally arrived yesterday. Bought a selection of items including the twice-baked chocolate almond croissant, kouign amann, savory pithivier, a chocolate almond and a green tea tea cookie.
Let's start with the twice baked chocolate almond croissant. I gave it 15 seconds in the microwave and it was delicious. Can't say it differs much from Bakery Nouveau though except for the shape. The amann was buttery and had great flavor, but the lamination of the pastry wasn't quite what I would have liked. I've seen twice as many air pockets and layers at another patisserie in Phinney Ridge. As far as the tea cookies, even though they felt soft to the touch, they tasted dry, if you can figure that one out. I couldn't discern the almond at all in the chocolate almond cookie and I wish they had used a chocolate with greater depth. The green tea cookie was for me much too strong. I like green tea but I'm sorry, this cookie tasted like a cross between seaweed and fish water. I tried another bite maybe 15 minutes later and thought the same thing. Such a shame because the cookies were absolutely beautiful in shape and color. The most unfortunate was the savory pithivier. Since I was doing this Yelp review, I pulled apart the two halves to see the filling inside. This particular croissant is filled with italian sausage, leek, onion, mushroom and mozzarella. As a picture shows, there was barely a scant tablespoon of filling. So, so disappointing. I could tell before I pulled it apart that this was probably going to be the case because the pastry felt so light. Also, it was nearly a puree of all of these things versus a nice dice inside the wonderful croissant dough. Not worth the $4.25 whatsoever unless they were to put two more tablespoons of filling inside to make it worth the money. I would go back to try different things, but I wouldn't race back. Also didn't know it was a chain so perhaps that may have some basis for why things weren't exceptional.