Rated: Average
based on 3 reviews
French Loaf
9, Harrington Road, Near Lady Aandal School, Harrington, Chetpet HO, Chennai
43561333, 43561666
| Locality | Harrington,Chetpet HO |
|---|---|
| Landmark | Near Lady Aandal School |
| Place Type | Bakery, Cafe |
| Food Type | Brownies, Cakes, Chocolates, Coffee, Confectionery, Cookies, Pastries, Snacks |
| Price |
  Moderate
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Credit cards accepted
Air conditioned
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first reviewed by malini22
- User Reviews (3)
May 31, 2008
Best Cakes in TOWN!!!
Amazing place, Awesome Mousse, Decent Coffee, Value 4 $$$, Reasonable Customer Service.
Keep it up GUYS!!!
May 18, 2008
cozy and quite afternoons
wide variety of bread-including home made specials that vary daily. The personnel are quite helpful and courteous though not necessarily highly knowledgeable on the cuisine. Sandwich factory is just outside. You have the choice of sitting inside the restaurant in the comforts of an a/c and watch IPL on the LCD or sit outside on the wooden benches (kind of a Parisian ambiance I wonder!
Menu is quite good, with enough variants in terms of the kind of bread, fillings-veg and non-veg etc. Pricing is reasonable. They also provide pastries etc (not sure of the quality though). One of the areas for improvement include the range of beverages available-limited range of cold coffee/tea available.
The afternoons/ early evenings are probably best time to visit if you wanna a quiet cozy afternoon with your friends/gal. Come evenings and the place is filled with young school and college crowd, making it rather noisy and quite a problem to find a parking slot.
Dec 24, 2007
Parisian my foot!-French Loaf & Maple Leaf
This sandwich shop is supposed to be modeled after a Parisian cafe and the chocolate lounge on the first floor Maple Leaf-after a Parisian chocolate shop. But sadly.....The sandwiches are OK at best and the cafe is filled with the usual line up of gelatinous desserts!
Chennai-yil Chocolate lounge-a??? For a Chocolate-paithiyam, this was a call from the holy land! My feasting companion was an ever-hungry teenager who could help me take a serious bite out of this place!
Upon entrance I expected to be greeted and enveloped by the rich, warm aroma of chocolate. But, this olfactory welcome which is characteristic of any bakery or chocolate shop boasting of making its own confectionery and pastry was strangely absent!!! As a result, the lounge appeared stark and soul-less and the white interiors rob the place of any warmth.
The simple plates of chocolates with their descriptions were easy to pick and choose from. The line up of flavors for the enrobed and molded chocolates was quite impressive ranging from the common vanilla to exotic passion fruit. So, as you can imagine we went berserk! We picked one from each flavor to be boxed and taken home and being fastidious-I made sure I wrote down the flavors beside the pertinent chocolate.
Then we decided to try out their desserts. I picked the Chocolate Walnut Fudge-which is actually a Brownie. Why? You ask. Simple. I love brownies. They are the easiest to make in the world of baking. After all, they were accidentally discovered by a careless baker in the kitchen! The lady at the counter heated up my slab of brownie in the microwave, which can be an advantage or a prelude to a flop show depending on the moisture content in your brownie. In this case sadly it was a flop show. The brownie was SO DRY that she could have just crumpled it and served it as something quixotic like “chocolate upma”!!! And the walnuts-where were they????
Two strikes, we decided to take off with our box of chocolates. At home as my family members congregated around the box of chocolates each was given the task of sampling one and trying to guess its flavor. Well, all the fruit flavors were so indistinguishable much to my disappointment. The twang of the Passion fruit and the sumptuousness of Alphonso were absent! Of course, the crunch of the nuts in certain chocolate centers gave away their flavor. The one and only flavor that managed to stand out boldly for instant recognition was the Cardamom flavored ganache enrobed in dark chocolate. The Zing of the cardamom clearly came through and was an intensely enjoyable experience on the palate.
All the praise from the local press that covered Mr. Mahadevan’s new venture-makes me wonder whether they all actually tasted, savored any of the store’s offerings or just collected their press kits with free samples. Gratitude and novelty can win over the impetuous press but chocolate-paithiyams are more difficult.
I suggest you don’t take anyone who is serious about their chocolate to Maple Leaf.