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> - Baguette/Brie at the gas station is better than what you'd find in most French restaurants/Boulangeries in the US. The gas station is not making the bread,
by evgen 17y ago
> - Baguette/Brie at the gas station is better than what you'd find in most French restaurants/Boulangeries in the US.
The gas station is not making the bread, they are buying it from a local bakery. Since there is a demand for good bread the random places like this can move enough inventory to get daily delivery, which keeps the bakery running, etc. Oddly enough, I found croissants in Paris to be uniformly mediocre. I can get the same level of quality without really trying here in the SF area and can get better than any I found in Paris by going to the company that supplies Thomas Keller. The best I have ever found were in small villages in Perigord (Belves FTW...)
- grandalf 17y agoI strongly prefer ethnic food and crave spicy food all the time, and so eating in Paris was more an exploratory exercise than a pilgrimage to the culinary city of my dreams. The best bakeries I found were in Cassis on the ocean in southern France. There were 4 shops within about 100 feet of each other and they were all amazing. I attribute this mostly to intense competition, which is, I think, the same reason that SF restaurants are so good. If they're not good people walk a few steps further to the neighboring place.