I trundled out to La Petite France again this
morning after trying, unsuccessfully, to buy a baguette
yesterday. No more baguettes at two o'clock on a Saturday afternoon tells you
everything you need to know about the city's tortured relationship
with bread.
Whatever else you want to say about their baguettes — the shop,
owned and run by a pair of Alsacians, is more pâtesserie than
boulangerie — I am pleased to announce that I was wrong about the pastries. There is at least one bakery, in Vancouver, that makes a good pain au chocolat.
I trundled out to La Petite France again this morning after trying, unsuccessfully, to buy a baguette yesterday. No more baguettes at two o'clock on a Saturday afternoon tells you everything you need to know about the city's tortured relationship with bread.
Whatever else you want to say about their baguettes — the shop, owned and run by a pair of Alsacians, is more pâtesserie than boulangerie — I am pleased to announce that I was wrong about the pastries. There is at least one bakery, in Vancouver, that makes a good pain au chocolat.