This place has a really good atmosphere. It's cozy, inviting, and sticks to a French theme. It's the kind of place you could come to have a decorated latte with a friend, colleague, or relative. It's not the kind of place I would bring children or the kind of place I'd bring a family. The service is great. The barista made us feel welcome, and her I would rate 5 stars.
However, the food was horrible. It tasted like prepackaged gas station food warmed up via microwave or toaster oven. We ordered a croissant sandwich, a maple bacon sandwich, a slice of cake, an iced coffee, and a hot coffee drink.
The cake was 3 layers with berries and cream. It was dry and stale and tasted overall just like a premade cake on a discounted rack at a grocery store bakery. The maple bacon sandwich tasted like McDonald's eggs slapped in between 2 cinnamon flavored Eggo's. The texture was slimy and the bread was soggy on the inside, however the outside of the bread was so hard it was difficult to bite into comfortably. The croissant was burnt, however after that top layer was peeled away it was actually almost good. A 3 star breakfast sandwich if not for the Kraft single they used for the cheese that gave us a delightful macaroni flavor. The iced coffee we ordered, at first I thought, tasted like dark chocolate milk, and then I realized it was just a bitter Expresso taste that lingered after the mocha that made it seem so. The white chocolate mocha I ordered genuinely had no flavor. It was similar to warm milk with a few spoonfuls of sugar. We paid roughly 35$ for everything we ordered.
Overall: 2.4 stars on a scale of 5 being the best Prices: 3 Food: 0 Service: 5 Atmosphere: 4 Recommendation: Try it for yourself if you have money to waste. Just stick to the decorated lattes and...
Read moreThis is probably one of my favorites bakery in town but not any more. Two week ago, we went in to get my daughter birthday cake order in advance and later on total 4 phone calls that I have to make while making sure that my order is good to go until they give me a call that talking about my cake order is not make it and recommend that I should choose a different kind of cake due to my decorating in the cake.( unicorn and rainbow theme) They charge me a good amount 15 dollar plus 5 dollar for fresh strawberry and 35 dollar for vanilla butter cake. So when I went in to pick up my cake it is not the picture that my daughter cake gonna be to plain and symbol for what I paid for. So I give a call to talk to the owner but it seems to be that they doesn't care how is the service and the good quality of their cake for as a business. They keep giving out the excuses and tell me that they will leave the owner a message so she will review about this situation then they let me know. By the way, they didn't make sure to ask me to email them some cake picture to show them so idea what we want. Is it worth the 15 dollars for decoration? No they are over charge and we agreed to pay but for what we got is not what we paid for......... it is my 4 years here to have my daughter birthday cake order and it is last time for us to support this kind...
Read moreI was so excited to see a French bakery in the neighborhood, but after two disappointing visits I don’t think we will ever go back. The bakery is expensive, but I would probably go for it if it was amazing and the service was even warm, but the service both times has been disjointed and odd, and they seem low on French treats (lots of cheesecakes and slices of layer cake, nothing amazing) and high on prices. Yesterday my kid picked a slice of cheesecake for herself and something that was the size of a cupcake for her sick sister, and they tried to say that little cake was $12. (It wasn’t marked in the case and honestly just wasn’t even remotely spectacular, just looked like a little kid birthday treat, complete with rainbow sprinkles. ) we got two slices of cheesecake instead and they weren’t even good, they wound up being tossed. (Unfair, the cat LOVED the lemon raspberry one and kept climbing over us trying to get to it.) We will keep visiting Le Grand Pere in Mountlake terrace when we need flaky treats and Cafe Nouveau when we visit my friend in Capitol Hill, but this local option is sadly just not...
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