Lily Paris French Café & Pâtisserie — Restaurant in Western Australia

Me and my dear wife thought it would nice to have breakfast at Lily Paris, well I wouldn’t recommend it, at least not on a Monday. We ordered, sat outside as there was no room to sit inside and as we sat down outside, the lady shopkeeper next door came out to us and made up that her son was coming to wash the windows so could we move, so we moved. But the son never came to clean anything. We waited and waited, 25 minutes later two tables of people had left so we moved inside. A gentleman came in ordered and his drink was made and taken to him. So I then went to ask if they had perhaps forgotten about our order. The lady who was behind the counter acted as though she couldn’t understand what I was saying. She told me that as she was busy our order would be next, it was, but with her serving at least a few people that had come in 25 minutes after us I wondered. 35 minutes after making the order and most of the cafe now empty we eventually got our tea and coffee, then our breakfast came out, the toast was as though it had been waiting on the side for almost half an hour too. We have been to Lily Paris before so I know it is not always so terrible but it wasn’t an experience I’d wish...

I really wanted to love this place - it’s got everything French and patisserie and it’s very cute and busy. But everything we ordered was tasteless: a very, very faint flavour in the selection of mini tarts. Only the (faint-tasting) lemon meringue had more crisp pastry - sadly the others were older and stale. The croque/toasties had zero flavour to the point where the ham and cheese flavour was so non-existent that you could only taste the wholemeal bread? Very strange. The many varieties of shortbread biscuits? Tasteless. Lovely texture - but zero flavour. Even the chai latte had very little flavour. Spent a lot of money on a bland disappointing lunch. Need to whoomph it all up a bit (with flavour and seasoning) and it would be amazing as the techniques are clearly...

Absolutely unbeatable taste, love put into Cookery and excellent coffee , In my opinion top 5 food and drinks SOR The display is mouth watering.

One complaint ; Service , Awful ! Been here a few times now and women are prompted for service over men it appears , Wait staff body language seems not want to engage male customers. On the times I've been here Take out seems to be a minimum of 15 mins and Eat in service at peak with grab n go dishes is up to 40 minutes . On passively telling a wait person I had only parked in a 30 minute parking bay waiting for a coffee and cake the Welsh wait person seemed to almost break into laughter 12 out of 10 for taste 1 out of 10 appears for service at all...