Love - Specialty Croissants — Restaurant in Rome

A very aesthetically pleasing and well-curated modern bakery. It's nice to see Scandinavian and French influences beginning to spread even to Roman bakeries.

This is not a place comparable to classic neighborhood bars. So, don't think of coming here for simple €3 breakfasts.

Over the course of 4 or 5 visits, I've tried almost their entire line of pastries. One piece is fantastic, many are excellent, but nearly all had aspects that could be improved.

The best is the apple turnover, a cross between a strudel and a pastry. Really good both the apple and cinnamon filling and the structure that envelops it.

The cinnamon roll is absolutely rejected. The cinnamon is too weak, the structure is too compact, and I find the white chocolate ganache quite pointless. Moreover, in my case, much of the upper structure was burnt.

The caramel cruffin was good, although the sugar coating on the outside makes it excessively sweet, considering that the filling itself is already very sweet. Suitable only for those with a sweet tooth.

The classic croissant is buttery, light, and flaky. Well baked on the outside with a well-aerated structure.

Both beautiful and delicious are also the pain au chocolat and pan suisse, with textbook structures and high-quality chocolate inside. However, the cream in the pan suisse could have used a bit more punch.

Delicious cappuccino. Quality coffee and milk. Technically well-executed. It shows that they care a lot about it as the staff asks you not to add sugar and not to stir it to maintain the “assembly” performed by their coffee specialist.

All in all a great place, but there is still much to improve both in the management of the influx (especially on weekends), and in many of the products they have in line.

I will continue to return, hoping to soon raise...

Loving the idea of bringing a more refined and upscale experience of bakery than what we are used to as Italians. (the idea is popular in north Europe, where coffee is not just a few seconds experience of a dark liquid thrown into your throat along with a low quality buttery cornetto , but it's actually a whole experience..nice ambient, tranquility, talks, music, time to enjoy), however this does not translate into the reality of Rome. There are too many tables inside and on crowded days you end up eating on someone's shoulder or shouting to get heard from your guest. In the summer, crowds of tourists form outside, baking and fainting in the blazing sun at 38 degrees while waiting for their turn. Suggestion: Lower the number of inside tables. Get a bigger tent to protect your customers from heatstroke while waiting outside. Limit the time at table and start taking bookings online. It can get better than this. I understand the spaces are limited...in this case, just do take aways with just 2-3 tables. But my impression is that they are completely fine with it, as the revenue is probably decent, and tourists have low expectations anyways for the city center (tourist traps everywhere). So 1 star for the locals, maybe 2 for tourists.

Editing to answer the reply: there is also another famous Italian roman effect called "chiagn and futt" , where business owners would publicly cry and acknowledge how terrible things are, but actually making good money in the backend milking from tourists, therefore changing nothing..let's enlighten the mood with that, sun...

Really fun place with a lot of interesting pastries! We ordered their monthly special (fig with walnuts), the moon (coffee), cinnamon roll, the berry one (forgot the name), and hummus with toast.

Their monthly special and the moon were my favorites! I would describe their filled cornettos as very crisp on the outside and not overly rich. The outside is very crisp and the inside is airy, the cornetto itself doesn't have much chew. I would be curious to see how the plain one compares, but I thought this texture was interesting as usually when I eat plain cornettos they are a little softer on the outside and the inside is chewy and buttery. That said, I really liked the texture of these since it felt very light and let the fillings stand out. The special, moon, and cinnamon roll were the perfect sweetness for me. If you aren't a fan of very sweet desserts, then I would recommend those. The moon filling is very creamy and coffee forward. The cinnamon roll has a very delicate cinnamon flavor. The berry one was probably my least favorite as I found it very sweet. The hummus was also meh for me and I would just stick to the pastries. The hummus itself was very dry and pasty and had a very chickpea forward flavor rather than tahini and could probably use more olive oil. The toast and toppings were fine though.

Their specialty coffee was also great. They have a variety of beans and the milk was frothed to have that rich, creamy texture.

Overall would recommend as I really enjoyed their pastries...