Being a lover of Japanese style French patisserie, I never knew about Frances Bakery, even though it’s been around in Little Tokyo for a long time. The exterior is very non-descript and dated looking. The interior is very hole-in-the-wall as well, despite the attempted rococo molding. My crappy photo doesn’t do the cake justice: they’re […]
Tags: Cake, Patisserie
Freda and I went up to Napa Valley for a wedding last weekend. Of course we took the opportunity to have as many amazing food and wine we can given the limited time we had. As soon as we got off the plane we drove for 1 hr and 40 mins to Yountville, the gourmet […]
Tags: Bakery, bread, French, Macaron, Patisserie
One last stop to cake shop on our last day at Vienna. Heiner is another old school patisserie and cafe dates back from the 1800s. The first floor is a shop while 2nd floor is the dine-in cafe area. The interior is very old school with gold edges and coo coo clocks, like a Grandma’s […]
Tags: Cake, Coffee, Patisserie
Out of the city center along the ring near the neo-gothic Town Hall, there’s Sluka, another historic confectionery since 1800s, frequent by famous clients like Sisi, Oskar Kokoschka…etc. The interior looks like it hasn’t been update for a long time (and not in a good way) that it’s a little bit grandma-feel so we prefer […]
Tags: Cafe, Cake, Coffee, Patisserie
The next day we went to try the original Sachertorte from Hotel Sacher. The restaurant was full, so we went to their cafe side which supposed to have the same menu. The boutique + restaurant + cafe + bar combine area is bigger than Demel. The decor, however, was old school classical (not that pretty […]
Tags: Cafe, Cakes, Coffee, Patisserie, Soup
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