If it is after 8am AVOID the food.
After a long day of walking around we were looking forward to grabbing a nice cup of coffee and some pastries (around 3 pm).
Grabbed pastries: Butter croissant, sticky bun and one of the giant macarons.
Took bites of said pastries.
Disgusted by dryness and staleness.
Proceeded to feel very sad and disappointed. (Why bother having the bouchon trademark and serve stale goods?)
Talked with girl who sold us pastries - after some discussion she refunded the order (at least there was that). So let's start with what was wrong.
(-1) For having the dryest butter croissant. It looked soo good and flaky. But darn can looks be deceiving.
(-1) For having the morning sticky bun that was made two mornings ago. They claimed these were baked fresh... but i've made sticky buns myself and they didn't taste that stale (the butter in the caramel had almost a rancid taste) even after days in the fridge.
(-1) For macaron that was frozen, not properly thawed, and then produced to ice while still being ice-cold. The worker claimed they were "Refrigerated". Unless in the cooking world -8C is refrigeration, something is wrong.
(+1) For the kind soul that refunded us the money. She seemed so lost and claimed thats how everything is "supposed to taste". Not sure if that's better or worse.
Anywho: I dont even want to give them a second shot. #sadness.