La Parisienne

We sat outside. You place your name on the reservation list via Yelp (maybe) or the elective iPad outside. The French toast was fantastic! The Madam with the fried egg was good too. The coffee has a good kick to it.

I asked the waiter for recommendation and he said French toast is the best selling one. But I strongly disagree based on my experience today.

1. The toast was cold from the inside (served in 3-4 minutes, definitely not prepared order by order, disappointing)
2. The toast is a bit dry from the inside.

To give a summary of what happened, I ordered a French toast. Believe it or not, it came in 3-4 minutes. And no surprise, it was cold from the inside. I was expecting the French toast to be warm from the inside had they just cooked order by order. And inside was also dry.

I know the quality (bread, fruits) is good, but the way they serve it cold and made it dry doesn’t worth $21 + tax for sure. However, the coffee was good and the atmosphere of the place is nice 🙂

Please be careful when they serve you fast and dry and cold, I didn’t bring that up at the time because I was partially in a rush.

I had dined here multiple times prior to the pandemic and loved their French toast. Prices seem to be way over now perhaps due to rent and costs rising. As such, I find it not as good value for money anymore for the French toast or the avocado one.

Finally came back last Saturday. It’s still as quaint and cozy. Croissants were good. Staff was nice and attentive.

Quaint little cafe with excellent pastries and bread.

Ordered a Croque Madame (with egg) and French Toast to share and both were lovely. I could tell the brioche and croissants would be lovely too.

It is a small cafe and they only serve walk-ins. Hence it is not advisable to come in a group more than 4.

Unlike a lot of these reviews, I’m afraid my husband and I did not enjoy the food!

You can see from the photos that accompany this review, the pastries we ordered were incredibly dense, heavy, dry – not enjoyable to consume.. definitely not the calibre of pastries you would expect from a cafe claiming to be an authentic and quality French patisserie??

We ordered the escargot, chocolate croissant and the ham and cheese croissant. The hot chocolate was basically milk, not much chocolate flavour either 🙁