Time Out rating:
<strong>Rating: </strong>3/5
Time Out says
Thu Jan 28 2010
This long-established pâtisserie-chocolatier is charming: attractive window boxes, prettily displayed cakes, jams and sweetmeats, and an array of handmade chocolates from France and Belgium. The simple menu lines up soups, sandwiches and ice-creams, and the staff are friendly (even doing impromptu magic for bored children). Hot chocolates are piled high with whipped cream, but the teas show less expertise: the cakes (lemon, carrot, chocolate, scones – no surprises there) proved dry and dense, and the chocolate chip cookies were inedibly heavy (even turned down by a sweet-toothed five-year-old). Long gone are the days when Londoners swooned for anything vaguely French, especially when there’s better baking to be had in nearby East Dulwich and Herne Hill.
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