NO NO NO!\n\nThis is not how a great bakery should be!\n\nOk, let me begin:\n\n1)   The staff are generally either not familiar with what they're selling (what's a brioche?) or not interested.  Some of them have been friendly, but there have been times I've felt bad for interrupting their phone call!\n\n2)  The bread is DELICIOUS!  But, if you're trying to have a \"french style\" bakery, you need more than nice bread to save you.  Plus, the baguette is generally as old as what the french hand out to the homeless.  \n\n3)  The pastries are really not worth the price.  They're expensive (a french chocolate cake is too expensive to even try!) and the cost of other items doesn't meet the quality.\n\nAside from the price, the pastries are too heavy on the crust and too light on the flavor.  For example, a blueberry tart will have a crust 2 times too thick for the amount of filling.  You would NEVER find that in France, as the fruit is the star and the tasteless crust just transports it to your mouth.\n\n4)  Ehh...yeah...it's local.  But, not all that great.\n\nI'd rather go to Pekara.  At least the staff are friendlier, the bread is just as good and the pastries are reasonable in price.