Slowly but surely the area between Aldgate, Aldgate East and south to the DLR is smartening up, driven by the large residential developments down Leman St but also the new Grange Hotel on Prescott Street.
This morning en route to try breakfast at Exmouth Coffee, we decided instead to pop into the Pastry Parlour, which tucked just behind the newish Sainsbury's on Leman St (map below). Rather than a coffee shop, this is very much a patisserie first and foremost.
Coffee (Climpson and Sons) was good and they have a range of loose leaf teas from Novus but it's the pastries that make this place, and based on the kitchen space I assume baked on site. When we arrived at 9.30ish there wasn't anything savoury out but the board notes sandwiches and baguettes (and we spotted baguettes being baked.
My plain croissant was excellent quality, soft and with the delicate flavour of butter, baked just as I like, to a light straw colour (I consider over-baked dark brown croissants a travesty). Croissants and coffee for two came to about £7.40.
It's still early days, and there a few things are yet to arrive (namely jam and crockery, so be prepared to have your cake on a paper plate and coffee from a paper cup but this is temporary). What I would recommend though is, is having some cakes to take away (they have takeaway boxes) - this is a lovely patisserie and one I'd go back to. They do however have free wifi.
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| Tarte fine and éclairs |
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Ooh, I walk down Leman Street practically every day and never released this was tucked away behind Sainsbury's. Thanks, will check it out.
ReplyDeleteA few months we followed signs to it put up by Berkeley Homes and ended walking round the block before discovering it hadn't opened!
DeleteTried any other coffee shops around Aldgate?
Very good coffee shop with awesome food and staff! Situated in just the right place!
ReplyDeleteYes - I remember walking down that street in 2005 on a daily basis and there was nothing and now with longshot at one end and Exmouth at the other, it feels a very different street.
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