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Where do you find a good croissant in the Bay Area?

Finally found a really good one. The line is shorter than Tartine's, but it takes about the same amount of time - Cafe Brio in Arcata. As if you needed another reason to go ride the north coast. Best one I've had in California. Went back later for dinner and had their chicken in puff pastry. First rate. :thumbup
 
Silence said:
Anything decent near the Ferry Building?
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Not that I've found. I can see the Ferry Building from my office, and nothing I've tried is any good. :dunno
 
Once you taste the real deal, it's hard to go back. I used to cross the border to buy good croissants. In the City, Mr Holmes is 7/10. I need to check La Farine.

Costco => :rofl
 
Closest thing I've had to a real Parisian croissant is at Pamplemousse in Redwood City. They are pretty legit, although a bit larger than standard.

lol @ calling what costco makes a "croissant". It's not even close.
 
Been vegan for a couple years so this delight is a thing of the past for me, but I recall that La Baguette in the Stanford Shopping Center had a surprisingly decent croissant. For a mall, I mean.
 
kongjie said:
Been vegan for a couple years so this delight is a thing of the past for me, but I recall that La Baguette in the Stanford Shopping Center had a surprisingly decent croissant. For a mall, I mean.
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They have therapists that can help.
 
asthmodeus said:
la farine. everything there is fuckin amazeballs.
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Does it matter which one? I've been to the one on Solano, and while the baguettes and tarts are great, the croissants not so much.
 
OP - good luck. It's how I judge bakeries and I haven't had one here that comes close to the real deal. My bar was set at a little coffee shop thingy about 20 miles south of Paris around 5:30 one morning. Almost late for a business meeting because I had to have three in a row - just out of the oven. Anyway, try Gayles in Capitola, Buttery in Santa Cruz, MH Bread and Butter in San Anselmo (ex Tartine chef), Rustic Bakery Larkspur, and if hard up, only the SF Pine St. location of La Boulange. Even those are usually better heated in a toaster oven (not nuked). Never tried take and bake, but that may be kroy-sant nirvana.
 
Croissants are an interesting thing. You'd imagine that Geneva, a French-speaking city, surrounded by France except to the east (because of the lake), with thousands of French folk living and crossing the border daily to come to work there including at bakeries and patisseries, you'd imagine that good croissants would be like pigeons, well, you'd be wrong. Any given Sunday morning, you won't believe the queue of drivers crossing the borders to go to France to buy croissants.
 
Equator coffee shop @ Proof Lab in Mill Valley sells croissants from Beth's Community Kitchen, also in MV. Pretty darn good.
 
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