Le Carousel Patisserie at Tilden

I came here twice in one day!! Absolutely outstanding and creative, high quality French pastries and desserts. The owners are French, and they are so kind. I tried the croissant with spicy Calabrian coppa and cheddar cheese, a pastry with mushrooms, bechamel, and truffle, and a really interesting galette des rois with pistachio and grapefruit. I think they are geniuses! Fantastic cortado, and very fair prices given the authentic quality!! Right next to the Union Square Hilton in the Tilden hotel. The lobby space is not great, but at least there is internal seating!

Excellent pastries. Excellent service. It’s a cute little shop inside the Tilden hotel. I have tried only a few pastries, but so far my favorite is Tigré. Would love to try their drinks next time.

i got some pastries and an iced americano for take away and had a very pleasant experience here. employees are friendly and witty! coffee was great and pastries were phenomenal—the truffle mushroom was my personal fav, my mom enjoyed the pain suisse. will definitely make this a regular spot:)

A concise offering of exquisite pastries. I had the pistachio grapefruit galette, and my friend had the ham and cheese croissant. The lobby of the hotel is available for seating.

This is my new favorite bakery in San Francisco! Everything was amazing, delicious coffee, amazing pastries, at this point I almost tried everything 😋 The service was also excellent, thank you Ben!

One of the best croissants in the city. It's hard to overstate how high the bar is set for a French bakery in San Francisco; probably second only to Paris. In the couple decades I've lived in the city, I've tried most of them, and was especially spoiled growing up across the street from the legendary Boulangerie. This new spot easily competes—not only in the quality of the pastry, but also of the coffee and the service. These are wonderful people who take joy in sharing their food with you. I look forward to watching Le Carousel build its own legend.

This place has well-made, very classic French desserts with a few twists here and there. In terms of execution, they’re comparable, although not necessarily better than a lot of the other trendier, more famous bakeries in SF. However, unlike all those other bakeries, Le Carousel Patisserie is very French while the other bakeries are French-fusion or French-inspired. You’ll find chocolate filled croissants and raspberry filled croissants here, not brightly colored tropical fruits you haven’t heard of. This makes them a bit different here in SF, and it’s a nice place to take someone who’s a bit newer to bakeries and gets overwhelmed with too many new choices. However, just cause they’re mostly classic French doesn’t mean they’re entirely classic French. For example, they had a pumpkin French flan tart that they sold around Thanksgiving. As of this review, they’re running a galette de rois special for January, with the standard almond frangipane filling or a pistachio-grapefruit filling. They already stand out a bit in SF by being classic French, but I like that they still do some different stuff to distinguish themselves without deviating too far into the Asian-French fusion that so many other bakeries in SF do. Also, one of the owner and pastry chef has a sweet French accent. The barista when I went to the cafe at Tilden was also very French.

Very great coffee and amazing pastries‼️

very happy to see le carousel finally open a brick and mortar! i adore st honoré and le carousel's is definitely the best one in sf (though there's virtually no competition) and a solid contender nationwide. particularly love the chantilly cream. i've tried them at popups and at their preorder location, same quality. friendly staff! there's no seating in store but there might be some in the hotel lobby.

Excellent pastries. Excellent service. It's a cute little shop inside the Tilden hotel. I have tried only a few pastries, but so far my favorite is Tigré. Would love to try their drinks next time.

I absolutely love Le Carousel Patisserie pastries - particularly their chocolate croissants which are fresh, airy, and delicious! Highly recommend and the couple that owns this business is so sweet.