Priya B.
Yelp
I was SO excited to see Paris Baguette come to Nashville and came twice in one weekend to fully check out everything they had to offer. This is my first standalone Paris Baguette visit (previous visits have always been to a location within an H-Mart), so it was incredible to see how large and expansive this location is.
The location is deeply annoying to get to: situated on prime Church street, making traffic and parking a problem. They have two free parking options: a handful of 60 minute spots in the garage directly to the right of Paris Baguette (most ideal, despite the fact that the spots are TINY and the garage is hard to maneuver even a compact car around) OR a gravel lot requiring a QR code underneath the bakery, at the corner of 11th and Church Street (which is a weird, 5 min drive around the building to get to and requires hauling up like 50 stairs to get to the bakery.) There is a very direct elderly gentleman in the garage helping direct traffic but the QR code inside the restaurant was confusing (multiple QR codes for different lots, not labeled clearly) and parking was a genuine nightmare here on both visits, and will be a reason I avoid going very frequently.
All that said: the food is a delight. Korean bakery with sweet and savory pastries, baked goods, desserts, and sandwiches. I have always found the French-style pastries so/so (the cream puff choux was too soft, the croissants a bit hard) and the Asian-focused ones amazing (stunning braided pastry with Japanese sweet potato, pretty decent mochi donuts, buns filled with red bean paste.) My absolute favorite item was the crab meat croquette, which was filling and very flavorful (had some corn in it, too!) My least favorite was the sesame tapioca bread, which was hard and had a really weird taste (savory, but not like other sesame bread I've had.) Very reasonable prices, and an extremely large selection of options if you have a sweet tooth.
It was PACKED on Saturday at 10:30 am and was unpleasantly chaotic (also no free tables to sit) but very sparse and easy to get through on Sunday at 9 am. Definitely an experience worth trying for special occasions, and I truly hope they figure out a better situation for parking because it's truly the worst and would prevent me from coming here.