Dan the Baker - Toast Bar

Pricing was a little bit shocking and the bread was on the burnt side. The pastries were good and fairly large but at nearly 10 dollars a piece I don't see the value. For reference a loaf of bread is 13 dollars which slightly over the price of a loaf from the iconic Tartine bakery which sells a you a significantly larger loaf for 12.75. I am a bread baker myself and enjoy heartily baked dark bread but the baguette was at the end of its life when I purchased it and the loaf was frankly over baked. I came by early in the morning and the baguette was warm when I purchased it, even at this point at its peak of freshness to the end user it was tough to bite through and chew. By the evening it is essentially a crouton. The gentleman at the register mentioned that the bread was warm from its second bake. This seems like a mistake in my estimation. Perhaps it is to try to allow the bakers a better schedule which is understandable but it's not doing the product any favors when you bake it twice and to that dark coloration. This place shows promise and clearly there are some good bakers at work, hopefully they can right the ship and provide the customers with a better experience.