Great Amelie's location. Since it was on the way back home, we decided to "skip the line" that is always present at the original location in NoDa and head over this way. It's crammed into the back of a shopping center on Park that has just about everything in it you could ever need or want.
But Amelie's is the focus here. They've got almost everything you can get at the main location and they're probably about the same size inside. They get sufficiently packed here too. I joked with my girlfriend that when a new Amelie's opens the local thrift stores must run out of stock - because they furnish the places with only mix-matched furniture and random paintings. They've got the sandwiches menu, the tea and coffee, the cakes, macarons, tarts, salted caramel brownies, petit fours, etc. etc. On this visit I even saw entire macaron cakes.
Lots of seating. It was a rainy day but there's seating outside for when it's not. And the neighborhood is not as sketchy as NoDa - that's certainly a win in my opinion. Closer to home too. The quality isn't even with all Amelie's locations though. Maybe it's a side effect of being so popular that quality is starting to fall. That's the only reason I can't afford them 5 stars because I otherwise love me some Amelie's.