Patisserie Claude and chocolate croissant
It's fantasy basketball season! I feel fantabulous about this. It's enough to cheer me up from the results of the elections coming on November 2nd. I'm sure it'll be a crazy result no matter what happens. I've learned not to say too much shit on here about my real beliefs though because I realized someone was able to hack into my server. Poo. So in the interest of keeping my blog with a good uptime, I'm just going to shield me from y'all and just talk about the food for the most part. Y'all don't need to know me. That's good for me. I don't need to spend time talking about it. But if you've been reading, you probably know how it is anyway. Today though, I want to talk about warm pastries. I remember a while ago Serious Eats did a post about bagels and then Ed realized that warm bagels taste way better than a cold bagel from a great bagel place. This obviously works also for other baked goods. Cookies. Pastries. Chocolate Croissants fall into this category. Hell, a lot of food falls into this category.
Patisserie Claude has some great pastries. In Serious Eats most recent roundup of regular croissants, Claude placed a very respectable 6th. I would say their chocolate croissant is better than their regular. And their warmed chocolate croissant is warm, delightful, and delicious. When you catch 'em out of the oven, they're too hot to even ingest. That's how fresh these things were, and waiting for them to cool down just a tad was perfect. If you ever walk by Patisserie Claude and catch the scent of freshly baked goods, I'd recommend you stop inside the store and inquire what just came out of the oven. It's sure to be amazing.
Patisserie Claude
187 W. 4th St.
New York, NY 10014
212-255-5911
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It's the rare chocolate croissant that's bad. But when it's bad, it's really bad. You know the kind, with the hockey puck of cold, hard chocolate in the middle? With tons of empty space inside? Horrid.
Ben
October 25, 2010 3:01 pm
A good croissant is even good cold! The co-op sells "baked early this morning" croissants from Canelle in Queens, and they're great, if not sublime. Bad croissants are one of the biggest shames that food can produce :[
James
October 25, 2010 11:02 pm
that sucks that you got hacked. What the fuck does someone have to gain from taking your site down for a couple of hours, aside from 1. the satisfaction of being an idiot, and 2. validation that their life has little to no meaning?
Anyway, I'm of the camp that you should continue writing however and whatever you want. It's the reason your food blog is different (read: doesn't suck like 90% of the random ones out there do), and it's your voice, don't change it because of a few naysayers :)
Oh yeah, warm pastries are the tits. Like how Poptarts suck the big one until you toast them into magical nuggets of gooey chemical laded fruit preserve.
Nicholas
October 26, 2010 12:27 am
@Ben,
Very true, rare is the chocolate croissant that is bad. They are however, so super awesome when they're warm... mmmm... so yea, I think in the f uture I would microwave cold ones to make 'em better.
@James,
Sadly the co-op is unavailable to me! Ah... Almondine has an ok croissant but their chocolate croissant is pretty good too. Maybe I just like chocolate croissants more... it's gotta be that whole chocolatey thing...
@Nicholas,
Yea... well the person left a file called dead.letter and said hello in it. haha. uh... so i dunno what happened, that's why I updated my server. but who knows, it's probably still full of security holes. And don't knock the cold poptarts, I eat it like that all the time. But only because I don't have a toaster at work. haha
Danny
October 26, 2010 9:40 am