The Almond Croissant Debate

I didn't end up going to Holland Park or Westfield today. Instead I wandered around aimlessly in Brick Lane and Redchurch Street (which is my favourite street in all of London by the way), poking through random 80s bric-a-brac and clothes at SICK, which is a little vintage shop at the intersection of the above named streets. Thought I could pull off floral MC hammer pants, but no, I couldn't.

Started to feel a little peckish so decided to satiate my curiosity and hunger with a visit to Franze & Evans, an Italian deli packed full of odds and ends my food shelf is begging for. I've passed this place a few times, the first time in May of this year when I saw their Breakfast menu in the window and one of the dishes was poached eggs with truffle oil. Yes, TRUFFLE OIL!!! My exilir of choice! Sadly, I didn't have enough money on me for heavy breakfast dishes, so their baked goods would have to do. Decided to try their almond croissant because it's been awhile since I've had one of those, and I also wanted to see if they could possibly beat the ones in Melbourne, from Laurent. Those ones are perfect - soft and mushy in the middle, yet crispy and flaky on the outside dusted with loads of icing sugar and toasted almonds. These ones were disappointing...they weren't soft enough in the middle and you could hardly taste the almonds. Blah. I paid £1.70 for mine. Melbourne - 1, London -0. I won't let that experience deter me from going back though, I'm going to have to at least try the poached eggs and truffle oil combination eventually ;)

Franze & Evans
101 Redchurch Street
London E2 7DL
+44 (0) 20 7033 1910

Interior shot - image courtesy of F&E website

Just so you know where it is! This shot was also taken from the F&E website

M xo