My wife saw a story on TV about Amelie's and suddenly "we had to go"! So, we took a field trip from Ballantyne to NoDa to check it out.
For a French bakery, it's pretty lame when I can say Williams-Sonoma frozen chocolate croissants are night and day better than Amelie's. We got a chocolate and cream cheese croissant and while they were both tasty, they were spongy and not flaky... ie, they lacked the actual appeal of a croissant. The cream cheese puff was also very tasty, but chewy as if it was a day old or older. For a place that's open 24 hours, you'd think they have fresher pastries in the case.
We really wanted to like Amelie's... but we will probably never go back unless we have other business to tend to in NoDa.