I'm really disappointed by this place. I moved in to a nearby house recently and was excited to try it... It's expensive to match its tastelessly merchandise-focused new building and snobby suburb sure... but whatever interesting take on the standard bread shop dishes they once did to get so popular is apparently utterly forgotten now... Either management has been replaced by bean counting profiteers or they've forgotten how to cook.
I've only tried two staples so far : the Apple danish (something i never imagined could be so badly butchered) and the chocolate chip scone...( To be clear I circled their shelves many times looking for more to try, but nothing looked to be worth the inflated costs.) Both of the items have borderline inexplicable chunks of saccharin nuts in them.. walnuts for the danish and (I'll be honest) i didn't dare to look closely at the dried up husks of nutflesh in the desertificated scone. Both of the things were burned to a crisp - the danish was a nest of curled brown puff pastry, the scone could be used in adobe wall construction - and neither of them were generous (as one would expect for the price) with their actual listed ingredients - the thinnest vein of apple scree and walnut icebergs hid deep within the charred skin of the danish; and chocolate chips, so cheap and insubstantial they make Top Value chocolate from the nearby Aeon look like genuine Belgian delights, dotted the sun dried brick of a scone.
I dare not go near their undoubtedly overpriced coffee, i will absolutely not try any more of their "pan" buffet, and I'll most certainly not be buying any of their cynical merch.
Edit: apparently the coffee is free. I went there once since writing this review and the machines were turned off. Go figure.
Pan Tora? More like Pan Torable! ...bleck, that pun... almost as bad as the food...
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   Read moreThe bread here is great! However the line takes a long time. I chose my bread in about 5 mins and waited in line for 20. They bag every piece of bread individually that everyone buys. My suggestion is, they should ask people if they want everything bagged. I wouldnt care if my 4 items are in the same bag. Also, they have some camara technology that photographs your tray that you put your bread on, so the cashier doesnt have to type in each item. However it still takes forever. I saw a few people leave, because they didnt...
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