Ottawa Foodies

Tried a slice of white layer cake and a hazelnut macaroon at this very busy coffee/pastry shop. The cake was just sweet and quite tasteless. My wife's lemon layer cake was also too sweet and had overpowering artificial lemon taste. The pastries on display looked like the kind that appear amazing but don't taste all that great. It seems that to really enjoy the food here you would need to know the subset of options that tastes very good.

The hazelnut macaroon was really delicious, and at $0.85 per, I was very tempted to get a half dozen to go on the way out! ;-)

i'm sadly disappointed!

i had the chocolate and pistachio;
the ratio of biscuit to filling was rather low, the batter was lumpy, and the texture was -very- chewy.

the pistachio had slightly more crisp, but i think only because of an air pocket. less chewy.

i don't mean to be a macaron snob, but it's just all wrong.

1.45$ + tax, each