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| - Well, I'm not going to make any friends by saying this, but BLECH! The blueberry crumble was basically shortening-flour goo on top of sugary jam goo. The coffee and service both lukewarm. The ambiance severely lacking.
I would give three stars for a freezing blizzardy night when you find yourself walking home with a good friend, and you stop in while the place is busy and full of life and you sit upstairs and look out at the snow falling in the streetlights and warm up with an irish coffee. That's the three star experience. But keep in mind, none of that has anything at all to do with pie.
The two star experience is the one I had today. And I gotta say, it's really not that hard to make delicious fresh pie. I make them all the dang time. And it is as simple as butter, flour, fruit, sugar. So if you're serving pie that is anything less than delicious, it means that it's probably full of a bunch of junk that is supposed to preserve it from going bad. Which means that you're not actually making fresh pie. And if you're not making fresh pie, what am I doing here?
Anyway, this place seems to have a bit of cachet here, and yes, if you find yourself on a second date, after dinner on Saint-Denis, and you don't really want to grab drink but you'd like to keep chatting, and you wanna test whether this person is the type who will hog the dessert, then sure, stop in and split a cheesecake.
But not worth crossing town for...
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