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| - I've heard Nadege was just hype and over priced mostly by non-yelpers so I kind of stayed away. Went to iHalo across the street and thought if I'm there why not try them out. Got the HB and Jam and Lemon tart, also 2 macaroons.
The lemon tart was OK I guess, nothing too refined, it was way too close to say a Loblaw's offering than it should have been. The HB and Jam tart was awful - such a pretentious item. They put so much work into making it look nice, doing little layers of this and that, and it just tasted like a gas station treat. I was disappointed. The macaroons were OK, but they had their issues. Most of the macaroons did not have consistent size, one flavor in the display case was all deformed and I don't care about shape but for macaroons when you charge that much for just one the expectation is perfection. Kind of the whole point of a macaroon. I had a pistachio macaroon which was normal size and a cotton candy one where it looked to be 1/3rd less too. Been to a lot of these artisan French dessert joints around the world and the one thing you pay for is perfection in presentation, someone put a lot of work into making everything just right so there is a price associated with that. @ Nadege, at least when I went, it seemed like a first week pastry student made everything which I'm ok with but not at theese prices. Prices which are MUCH higher than others' in the GTA who simply make better French pastry.
Go to Roselle on King St IMO, avoid Nadege it's a cash grab. Even if you're right in the area for whatever reason the convenience isn't even worth a visit.
Also this is one of those places where if you order with CC/Debit, it prompts you for a tip and you have to enter 0 $ or 0 % before you can pay.. another cash grab after overpaying for sub-par items. I really detest when establishments do this, a tip for putting an item on my plate and giving it to me? You charge a ridiculous amount of money for your items but can't pay staff well enough so you have to hit up everyone for a tip when ordering? Nah nah nah, get out of here lol.
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