Ottawa Foodies

la provence is just a OK bakery, to my taste..

So after lunch at Phnom Pehn, I stopped in to check out this bakery - I have been meaning to do so for over a year now. I purchased a chocolatine (chocolate croissant) that I ate guiltily in my cube later in the afternoon. Yummy. Light and flaky and moist with an excellent chocolate center. It is going to be hard to stay away from this place now that I know the products are good. They also had a very nice cake and pastry selection. At least nice visually... It might be dangerous to the size of my butt to sample all of the offerings, but based on the chocolatine, I would bet that everything else is really good too.

I've been meaning to try this place for a while since I heard they have good bread. By the time I got there, they'd sold out of their more "hearty" breads so I had to settle for a fluffy Belgian loaf.

No problem! This was easily the best tasting fluffy white loaf of bread I've ever had. I still prefer more dense, moist breads but as far as fluffy goes this one was top notch!

I tried their Tiramisu and Chocolate Mousse cake (as shown in the photo). Both were very good. A small one like this costs $17.99.

The cakes were frozen. So, allow 1 hour to thaw before serving.

I had tried several kinds of cakes from La Provence, with the exception of their chocolate cake, EVERYTHING was delicious, particularly their tiramisu cake and the ladybug raspberry mousse cake that I ordered for my baby girl's 100 day birthday. I do wish that their cakes are freshly baked instead of frozen, oh well...