Poilâne

Food = 5 stars! Service = 3ish stars but as I would call this place a must visit for traditional pastries and breads (been in business since before WWII, really interesting story behind the owners involving types of yeast and flour they use), I’m going with 5 stars.
Food: Buttery croissants, apple rolls, and butter cookies are the best!
The strawberry jam here is small batch, no sugar added and AMAZING!
Service… not so much friendly but efficient.
Coffee is disappointing (but on par for French cafes) but the tea and huge bowls of hot chocolate are good beverages to have with their breakfast sets.
We liked coming in and leisurely enjoying breakfast sets but each time we did, the eat-​in dining area was curiously empty, most people come for take-​away.

Stopped by Poilâné the other day to pick up pastries/​bread for breakfast for my family and I. Poilâné was rated very well on Unilocal,and walking distance from the hotel that my family and I were staying at, so I figure I give them a try.
When I had entered the storefront, the lady behind the counter was on her phone, so I had decided to peruse while she finished her phone call. The take-​away section of the store was rather small. Many of the items for sale were at arms length, so it almost appeared as if it was up to the customer to pick out what they wanted. As I had picked up a piece of wax paper, the lady behind the counter signed to me that she was the one to collect and wrap the items, so I held off and waited for her to end her call. She was very helpful and spoke really good English.
I was hoping to get a baguette, but noticed they didn’t have any. So I ended up getting two apple pies, one croissant, and three tiny rolls at 1e each. They had tons of jams/​preserves and prepackaged cookies ready to take, so I bought two packages of spoon shaped cookies to give away as souvenirs once I got back to America.
All in all Poilâné was really good and super flakey! I would have not expected less from them. The tiny rolls I had purchase (one plain, one raisin, one nut) were the perfect size. The apple pies were very very good! And everyone thoroughly enjoyed the spoon shaped cookies!

There are ¾ small boulangeries within a 3 minute walk of this place that deserve your business much more than this place. I got a pain au chocolat which tasted stale (even though I bought it at 8:30am), had almost no flake, and had no sheen on the shell. I also purchased a tarte au pommes which was overly sweet and extremely doughy on the bottom.

Le pain poilâné, c’est pas mal, quoiqu’un peu dur je trouve personnellement.
Mais bon, en tartine le matin avec du beurre et du miel, quel régal !
Ici, la boutique es très jolie et mignonne comme tout. Placée juste devant le «Popelini”(enseigne que je chérie à cause de ses fabuleux choux à la crème!), ce commerce offre du pain poilâné à la coupe, en sachet, en grosse boule, ainsi que des viennoiseries fraichement décorées et tout aussi appétissante!
C’était très bon, et en plus, à côté il y a le café-​restaurant dans lequel on peut s’y régaler à midi.
Why not, si vous êtes en galère de pain, mais rien n’égale une bonne tradition bien cuite chez un artisan boulanger!

One of the best croissants I’ve had in paris. I stayed at an apartment right around the corner from the store. The lady spoke very little english but was quite friendly and nice. She even recommended me to go to the italian café down the road for a good coffee. Will definitely return in June!

I would skip the café and just buy the baked goods. The chocolate croissant was excellent, very flaky and was still scrumptious when I had it a day after. The Crayfish Guacomole Tartine was not exciting at all and very flat in terms of flavor. Also tried their famous butter cookies, not sure if it was an off day, but it was a bit flavorless and not a good texture.

Ce commerce n’est pas la boulangerie Poilâné mais juste un petit point de vente avec un petit café adjacent. Nous avons acheté un quart de pain au levain, un petit pain aux noix ainsi qu’un chausson aux pommes. Tout était très bon et le service était très sympathique.

Topissime pour le pain (gros coup de pour le pain de mie) mais pas seulement, la tarte aux pommes aux saveurs de notre enfance est top et le granola délicieux

We were looking forward to coming to eat at the Poilâné café, a place we had visited on our previous trip to Paris.
However, we won’t be coming again. The service was rude, nervous and abrupt.
At some point we could smell that something had burnt, only to realise that it was our «tartine» they were serving us a couple of minutes later! They even dared to act surprised when we complained about it.
On the positive side, the food turned out to be as good as the last time, after they served us new tartine.

Was disappointed to find that the café attached to the boulangerie was «on vacation» while we were visiting but the bread was outstanding and the croissants some of the best during our five week stay in France.

Hier spreche ich NICHT vom Restaurant/​Lokal sondern vom Verkauf von Brot/​Brötchen etc: Hier gibt’s wunderbares Brot, Brioche und «Apfeltaschen zum Niederknien». Und das von mir als Österreicher! Auch Croissants und Baguettes waren einfach nur genial gut. Sehr empfehlenswert!

Quoi de plus agréable que d’aller chercher une bonne baguette toute chaude avant d’aller au travail? Vous connaissez cette sensation ?
C’est celle que l’on a en allant dans cette boulangerie !
La baguette est croustillante à souhait, et ça c’est pas juste les baguettes toutes les pâtisseries sont très bonnes et pleines de goûts. Les prix sont relativement bons marchés et les gens sont hyper accueillants, je né sais pas quoi dire d’autres à part qu’il faut tester cette boulangerie qui reste simple mais qui a une grande variété de produits, d’autant plus que c’est un quartier qui a beaucoup de célébrités, donc si vous vous sentez l’âme people ça fait deux en un !

Divine croissant.
I had my first Parisian croissant at Angelina’s, which didn’t blow me away. But the croissant from here (eaten right away) was deliciously flaky and just the right amount of buttery softness.
The butter cookies were addictively good too. The service here was simple and attentive.
You buy your bread and leave — there isn’t a place for you to sit and eat it. There is a Poilane café next door with a full menu of sandwiches etc.

Another Poilane location. I don’t know if they all have café’s or not, but this one does.
I can’t understand why Poilane would get anything less than 5 stars. I guess if you want something strong and super-​sweet, this is not the place.
Even though I am an American with non-​existent French language skills, they were super-​nice to me in the mornings when things were quiet. Just pay attention and let them do the choosing/​touching of the product and be VERY courteous.
The croissant has incredible flake and butter flavors. It’s just indescribable. The tart is a masterpiece where all the ingredients work together. The crust, apple and sugar/​spice in equal amounts over the entire chewing experience. It needs nothing. There are other bakeries, and this one won’t appeal to everyone. But, wow. I’m almost sad this doesn’t appeal to everyone.
We had breakfast one morning and it was totally consistent with everything else they do. Excellent food, excellent service even to Americans.