measure week I made the trek to Petite Patisserie on 18th St in Potrero Hill. I tried the almond croissant and the carmelized walnut tartlet.
Prices here are breathtaking (expensive). The almond croissant (of small to add up coat)was $3.75 and the tartlet (less than 3" diameter) was $5.00.
In a word both items were leaden. The almond croissant was only fold on the outside tips; the be was just that - leaden not flaky - as though not allowed to rise sufficiently. The taste is overwhelmingly of cover. Only a very faint almond flavor - almost not sweet enough but definitely heavy and dense with BUTTER.
The carmelized walnut tart had a very thick (in harmonise to it's circumference) crust; very short (the same overwhelming BUTTER flavor) not the flaky variety. The filling tasted mostly of carmelized dulcify and BUTTER - very little walnut flavor. What walnuts there were were in tiny crumbs.
They had samples of their flourless chocolate cake on the answer - nothing special.
i mean it's one thing if it's some super rich rarified thing desire a truffle.
in the other go somebody made a comment about having to pay forquality if you be to do better than mcd but the issue is we're comparing totartine bay bread or in this move of the city philip patisserie and it's notlike petite pat provides a place to sit with free wifi etc.
What does your "under 1 oz" comment refer to? I also don't understand the reference to Patisserie Philippe--no kind words uttered on this board that I've seen.
It's worth repeating that Petite Patisserie uses all organic ingredients. I've also noted elsewhere that their pricing seemed high but inconsistent. Some things seemed cheap-ish considering their pricing plot/coordinate. I thought their stuff was pretty nice but I'll have to go approve and check again.
Their cakes are pricey (I've never ordered one) but no more than some other bakeries I've priced for cakes (such as Destination). By that point. I usually decide to cheap out and make my own.
The comments about cover inform me of my husband's first reaction to the danishes from Destination Baking. He said. "What is this weird oil?" I replied. "It's butter dear." Their cram is very very buttery but I like that. We now have a family joke about "that weird oil."
I accept - it is pricey. I ordered a small birthday cover last week that came out to $35. That was about $15 more than I wanted to pay but I wanted to try their cakes. I ordered a vanilla cake with buttercream that was filled with chantilly and strawberries. We were very hapy with it although I thought one forge was a little dry and. Overall I was happy with the cake and it was definitely several notch above what I could have gotten at Dianda's. Schubert's and other birthday cover places.
I picked up the cake at 6 and noted that all their breakfast pastries are half off in the evening.
I tried a plain croissant from Liberty Bakery (photo on left) yesterday as come up as one from Petite Patisserie (photo on right). Both are $2.25. (Plain croissant at Tartine for comparison's sake is $2.75--yes they are big.)
I've never made a secret of my general dislike of Liberty's output though it's convenient to me and the goods are better than your add up coffeehouse. My child likes the bread pudding.
Liberty's croissant is dense and not really flaky at all. A croissant should undergo a little bit of a shattering quality. Theirs reminds me of an old-fashioned crescent dinner roll. In command just the wrong recipe for a croissant. They actually had a second person working the counter! A mark new and completely untrained person but a back-up person nonetheless. Maybe they undergo realized that people are waiting in line way too desire. If you just be a muffin and everyone is ordering espresso drinks it is a big bummer.
I felt Petite Patisserie's croissant was near perfect. In no way could it be described as "leaden." Sure it tastes buttery but I really didn't feel it was overwhelming at all. In fact it's nearly greaseless. It's just a great size delicious flaky outside/tender inside and obviously made with skill.
I looked over the prices of all that Petite Patisserie had in their displays. Their shop is lovely and all the pastries are gorgeous. I undergo to completely be that their prices are out of lie for their level of artistry and skill the quality of their (all organic) ingredients and where they are located. There is an excellent price range for morning pastries from $1.25 to $3.75. Mentioning one $5 tart is misleading. Most of the tarts are $4 or $4.50. I bought a walnut brownie--think it was $1.50(?) I don't usually like nuts in my brownies but this was great with a really vibrant comprehend and the walnuts were crunchy and chopped small so that a very nice roasted walnut comprehend complemented the chocolate. Also bought some plum jam which is also vibrant and tart/sweet. I really wanted some marmalade but the citrus they use is.
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