Best Croissants Of Houston Near Me

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Founded in 1977, FRENCH RIVIERA Bakery Cafe has over 40+ years of experience serving Houstonians. We offer traditional and artisanal French and European fare featuring timeless classics such as the croissant, baguette and quintessential chocolate eclair. What started off as a mere boulangerie in 1977 has flourished into a contemporary cafe (supplied by our in-house bakery of course). With expertise and knowledge gained from over four decades, we're confident our products are sure to please. Come check us out!

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4worldlovers: Pâtisserie Paris Je T’aime, in the 11660 Westheimer location, has been closed. There will be a new bakery in that location, with a new chef. The new bakery will still have croissants and macarons.

Our Chef Nga will be taking a break for a few months. However, she promises that she will be back, in a different location. She asks that you follow her on Facebook, at https://www.facebook.com/PatisserieParisJeTaime. You shouldn’t need a Facebook account to see this.

For this year’s Christmas yule logs, we have four different flavors in two sizes.

The incontournable caramel salted butter, hazelnut praline chocolate mousse with moist chocolate biscuit

Pistachio cream, topped with a layer of raspberry confit pistachio praline, crunchy pistachio paste, and moist chocolate biscuit

Modern rolled bûche with several layers: vanilla cream, chocolate ganache, and orange confit under a biscuit à la cuiller.

Today, the chef is giving out samples of one of the Bûches de Noël for this season. She has a caramel salted butter praline (hazelnut).

The chef made something new! It’s a nut tart, with walnuts, cashews, pecans, and pistachios, covered in salted caramel.

We will be open on Thursday, November 25, 2021 from 9:00 am until noon.

Tomorrow, November 26, we will be open the whole day, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.

The chef has been in Paris for a couple of weeks, but she’s back and we’re open for business again.

She adjusted the croissant recipe, based on what she learned. The croissants are now a little more crispy, but still buttery and delicious.

She will make some changes to the menu in the coming months. We hope to start offering a variety of crème brûlée in different flavors. She expects to do a little less chocolate, and more tartes. Welcome back!

The chef tries to go back to France once every two years for training. She will be leaving on Wednesday, September 22, 2021 and will arrive back on Sunday, October 10. The store is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. So, the store will be open again on Wednesday, October 13.

The chef wants to learn about new styles for Bûche de Nöel (Christmas logs).

For a while, we were having trouble finding hazelnut paste. That’s the chief ingredient for things like the Praline cakes and Bûche de Noël. Eventually, after a lot of searching, we did find something at a reasonable price. However, for a while, it looked like the only store in the country that was selling a bucket of hazelnut paste wanted $500 for it. A couple of years ago, a bucket would cost only $150.

If we were to price our individual praline cakes accordingly, we would have to charge $23 for one that now costs $7. That’s just insane! But that’s the kind of thing that happens sometimes. We try to get the best ingredients that we can, and many of them come from France. The price of chocolate has increased significantly in the years that we have been in business. But please know that we are doing the best we can.

The chef was in a car accident last week. She’s still in a bit of pain, but the bakery is open now.

In the back row: hazelnut vanilla, chocolate with raspberry, matcha green tea, and pistachio. In the front row: dark chocolate, coconut, rose, and passion fruit with milk chocolate. (Left to right.)

The chef made run-vanilla cream puffs. They’re off the menu, but we have a bunch.

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