La Croissanterie

Ils servent des faux croissants et des jus de fruit d’on né sait où, coupé à l’eau, au prix d’une boulangerie traditionnel — mais ça dépanne bien… Si seulement c’était rapide par contre…
Et surtout, la vendeuse qui rejette son incompétence sur une touriste de façon complètement abusé alors que c’est le rush du matin… comment dire, ça coupe la faim.

Croissants industriels, cafés ordinaires, pas mal de choix en pâtisserie … ça permet de dépanner pour un petit dèj en mode lance-​pierre ou un petit goûter impromptu … mais voilà quoi.
Coté déco, j’aime bien quand même.

Normalement pas si mal en terme de goût, quand on regarde les compositionsdes sandwiches, il y a de l’idée. Mais la qualité des produits n’est pas forcément au rendez-​vous. Bref ça reste du fast food. Le gros problème c’est finalement le prix. 5Eur pour un simple sandwich.

Oh gosh the LC. This place was a gift and a nightmare at the same time.
We received these meal cards from the LC from our school. This was a considerate thing on behalf of the program coordinators, but also an inconsiderate thing to assume we would want to eat here everyday.
(This is an unrelated, venting sidenote, so read at your own expense: Why would we complain about having meal cards? Aren’t we grateful? Yes and no. It’s great that the LC is just a minute’s walk from our class, so that if we were in a time crunch, and didn’t want to spend money, the meal cards were a perfect solution to a broke student’s wallet and growling belly. Now here’s where I didn’t like it. One– our classes were let out by 12p, and we were free to do what we want after; so why the heck would you make us eat there? Two– the cards, valued at about 6 or 7 euros were something we apparently paid for as part of our program costs (of course they negotiated some price for buying such cards for all of us) so we would be throwing money away if we chose to not use the cards. Three– the sandwiches might have been edible once. Not 5 days a week. Everything they offer there is cold, and preprepard, and it was a nightmare to think we had to eat that everyday for lunch in the beautiful amazing city of Paris. The area around Bonne Nouvelle offered so much variety and reasonably priced lunchtime meal items that it really was a waste to eat just the cold subs or sad wraps at the LC. Lastly, four– the LC has a expiration time. If you weren’t in the insanely long lunch rush line by 12:30p, forget it; there’s no chance you can get something remotely appealing to look at. Once they run out of food, that’s it, they won’t make anymore. So you’ll be stuck with that dodgy looking something-​salad in a roll, or just have to come sooner next time. I also remember the vegetarians in our programs being quite out of luck as they happen to have afternoon class, and by the time they arrived, nothing they could eat would be available, and they wouldn’t make an alternative veggie-​friendly option for them.)
Okay, sorry to get sidetracked there. I obviously have a love/​hate relationship with the LC. It’s something I had to do for 3 weeks; pick up the least upsetting menu item and take it home for dinner so that I could try and make an effort to see more of Paris then a glorified Subway. (Or, we’d just give our cards away to the business lunchers in line). The staff were efficient and friendly enough. But if I see another LC anywhere again, I might just scream. It’s a good idea I suppose as far as a sandwich chain goes, but I just had too much of a croissanterie overload to make a fair review.

2 étoiles pour le dépannage en cas d’extrême urgence. La croissanterie est au sandwich ce que MacDo est au burger (toute proportion gardée évidemment): n’y allez que si vous n’avez pas le choix.
Les viennoiseries sont finalement aussi chères qu’une boulangerie basique alors que c’est du pur industriel.
Le personnel est sympathique et ils ont retapé récemment le restaurant pour donner un aspect plus clean et moins sandwicherie.
Néanmoins, on y sert principalement des sandwiches avec des produits légèrement douteux. C’est clean mais ça n’a finalement que peu de goût.
Cela aurait pu être pardonné si les prix pratiqués étaient en dessous de la moyenne du quartier, mais ce n’est pas le cas.