La Boulangerie de San Francisco — Restaurant in San Francisco

If you're rushed, come here and grab brekkie (Aussie for breakfast). Lots of pastries ready to bag and wolf down.

We came here to kill time and eat brekkie. The lines can get messy cuz it's in front of the pastry window. People aren't considerate to line up north to south instead they line up east to west if you get it.

While it was decent, it still lacked that love quality but a step up from mass production. I had the salmon quiche. Was nice that the lady upsold me to add greens. She also asked if I liked my chai spicy though when I got it, it tasted like any ole chai. Hopefully they did use almond milk that I requested. It's loud in there so yell your order.

We got a nice window seat so we could people watch :) No bag hooks though. So please be careful if the window is all the way up. Your bag or electronics might get snatched.

Get your cutleries, napkins, lids, etc before returning to your table and perhaps save a seat while someone gets the food. Tables run out on Sat morning and you'll be holding your table number while waiting for a table.

I was thrilled that their cannelles weren't as expensive as Berkeley. Their apple fruit tart was delicious. Nothing out of the ordinary though.

UPDATE: My coworker went to Starbucks & the La Boulange cookies are sold there, it even says so on the bag. OMG! YUM! You can tell it's not a Costco or Safeway cookie. Just biting into it, it doesn't fall apart, your teeth just sinks into it's moistness. The icing on it is just right, not too thick and not overly sweet. I just had one and I...

I used to go to this coffee shop and co-work every morning. But then I realized a homeless woman shows up pretty regularly, searches the trash bin inside the coffee shop for leftover food, finds something, sits at the table with other customers and eats what she finds in the trash.

The other day I noticed a really dirty and unshowered for months person stands right at the door, asks people to buy him coffee and pastries, hides the pastry in his pocket and asks for more. The same person uses the coffee shop bathroom, this is a huge hygiene issue, let alone the scenery.

One of the usual cashiers is a young white person with maybe 20 cut marks on their arm (my guess is they are hurting themselves), the attitude that “I hate you, I hate my job, I have no ambition, no hope”, no smile, no polite exchanges that you’d expect in a coffee shop.

The worst part is that they want customers to tip them, %15 at least, while I have to clean my own table before and after seating and all cups and utensils are disposable, and water is self service. So, what am I exactly tipping for?

In terms of the food, pastry items are good, tuna sandwich is awful, the brunch plates (egg, potato, etc.) couldn’t be worse in quality, taste, and look. I wish they would use plates to serve food and not put the already unappetizing brunch...

My first apartment in SF was near the Pine St location from '03-'07, so me and this place go way back. The Pine St location, from what I remember, had way better sweet pastries. Or they deemphasized them altogether. No blueberry cheese danishes or tarts in sight at this location?? Goodness. Best your sweet tooth will be able to do is a chocolate croissant. The other sweet pastries are much more mild.

Their staff is nice and friendly but I do not like their systen where they always hand you off to another worker mid-order and then you're standing by the register while they figure out where your sandwiches are.

Now, let me tell you the scam that is their fruit salad. You do not put yellow pieces of watermelon that deviously resemble pineapple in a fruit salad that already has bright red watermelon in it...and canteloupe..and honeydew. To prove I wasn't crazy I had my husband guess each fruit and he thought I was toying with him because it was "so easy." He, too, gave face of utter betrayal when he bit into...