Hooboy, all I can say is that if you eat two croissants, a cream cheese danish, an oatmeal raisin cookie, and a chocolate chip cookie from Nouveau all in one leisurely sitting, you're going to have a wonderful time if you're like me last Saturday afternoon.
West Seattle's Bakery Nouveau, which is French for abso-fucking-lutely nothing -- "boulangerie" and "pâtisserie" are both feminine nouns, and "bakery" has no business having a French adjective appended to it anyway -- is the single most overrated establishment in this entire city.
Their American-style baked goods (brownies, cakes) are just fine, if not terribly special. I have no idea about the pizza (because ???).
But stay away from anything that claims to be authentically French. Lifeless puff pastry, sickly-sweet fillings, ham-fisted facsimiles of dumbed-down recipes abound. And their macarons -- no, not "macaroons", morons, which are something entirely different -- are the driest, most oversized, most bombastically overflavored, and saddest representations of that delicacy that I have ever encountered in this country that is notoriously bad at making them.
Bakery Nouveau has become my litmus test of Seattleites with terrible, mass-delusion-generated taste.
Does anyone know anything about Fuji Bakery? I keep passing by it on the way home on 15th Ave W (Interbay) and it looks like it's getting close to opening.
Their American-style baked goods (brownies, cakes) are just fine, if not terribly special. I have no idea about the pizza (because ???).
But stay away from anything that claims to be authentically French. Lifeless puff pastry, sickly-sweet fillings, ham-fisted facsimiles of dumbed-down recipes abound. And their macarons -- no, not "macaroons", morons, which are something entirely different -- are the driest, most oversized, most bombastically overflavored, and saddest representations of that delicacy that I have ever encountered in this country that is notoriously bad at making them.
Bakery Nouveau has become my litmus test of Seattleites with terrible, mass-delusion-generated taste.
My god. Is there any basic matter of language or geographic fact those idiots can't mangle?
Crumble & Flake need not worry.
And they will post it on their Facebook and website for all of our information.