Crème de la Crème
Patisserie and bistro on Alexandru cel Bun, with praised pastry and contested bills
Pastry and desserts in a place open from 7:30, with the lemon tart named explicitly
Worth it for the pastry and the atmosphere, but check the bill before you pay. Two separate reviews describe an extra plate the staff refused to remove.
Patisserie and bistro on Alexandru cel Bun street, open from 7:30 on weekdays until 21:30, and until 22:00 at weekends. The good reviews talk about the atmosphere and the pastry: one guest says the place outshines even the French, another calls it the most beautiful café in Chișinău and praises the desserts and the salads. The lemon tart and the cappuccino are named explicitly. There are repeated complaints too, and one of them appears in two separate reviews and is the same: an extra plate brought to the table, the guest said they had not ordered it, and the staff did not accept this and charged for it. Both guests were foreigners, and one writes that had they known the language, they would not have paid. A third review, of one star, describes a dessert sold as a replacement for one said to be sold out, found dry and tasteless, while on the way out the display was full of the dessert that was supposedly unavailable. Other complaints: a below-average tiramisu, a poor quiche and dirty plates.
- The atmosphere, called by one guest the most beautiful café in Chișinău
- The pastry, compared by one guest to what you find in France
- The lemon tart and the cappuccino, named explicitly
- The salads, praised in one review
- A large selection of desserts and pastries
- Kind staff, mentioned even in the critical reviews
- Very clean toilets and music suited to the place
- A terrace and a dining room, plus long morning hours
- The dessert display
- The terrace on Alexandru cel Bun
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“I will start with that the breakfast was tasty,We came 3 person and we all ordered our plates, when our order came they bringed 4 plates one of them came duplicated,and when we say we not order the same breakfast plate 2 times they dinied and they charged us!! Its not nice to do things like that because you just saw tourists if we knew the language believe me i would not pay fo…”
“We went for breakfast and coffee and we didnt regret it. Both of them were really good but waiter mistakenly brought 1 extra plate and we told him that we didnt order it he didnt accept it so we had to pay extra this plate. Overall i would go again and recommend it”
“Scam. Went to the place on late Sunday afternoon. It was quite busy and went to the second floor where there was an open window, which I kindly asked to be closed since there was a flow of cold air. The biggest disappointment came when I asked for a mille-feuille and the waiter told me it was no longer available. He recommended another dessert, with quote "the same filling." I …”
- Two separate reviews describe an extra plate brought to the table, flagged by the guest, which the staff refused to remove from the bill
- Both guests were foreigners, and one writes that had they known the language, they would not have paid
- A one-star review describes a dessert sold as a replacement for one said to be sold out, found dry and tasteless, while the display on the way out was full of the supposedly unavailable dessert
- A below-average tiramisu and over-strong fruit tea, in a three-star review
- A poor quiche, a tasteless salad and dirty plates, in another three-star review
- Prices considered high for Moldova
- Busy on weekend mornings