boule (pt 2)

Earlier I wrote about some $3.25 croissants and I've been thinking about what that means to us as consumers. You do get what you pay for and I guess one could buy a mediocre $1.25 croissant that is three times bigger but what's the good in that?
Still haven't tried everything they have to offer. Lime-basil gelato anyone?

The establishing exterior shot


The ominous warning that I luckily ignored


Nothing to give you scale. think small


boule cake. devil's food cake, montmorency jam, chocolate tea mousse.



Religeuse on top, eclairs on bottom.
spelled wrong on sign at store. hence no photography?
Religieuse for future reference

eric here. i joined brian at boule, definitely the swankiest bakery i've ever been to. i'm surprised it wasn't on melrose, sharing a wall with some argentinean lamp shades boutique or something. and being so impressed by said swankiness, i just had to try the very petit, and somewhat pricey pain au chocolate, which set me back an impressive $3.75, at which brian made the good point that the $0.50 upgrade from the regular ol' croissant isn't actually that bad considering you get a decent amount of chocolate in the upgrade. so how was it? now i've had more that my fair share of pain au chocolates during the two summers i spent in belgium and this one was probably just as good, although at half the size and twice the price. the bread was flaky and buttery, and the chocolate was delicious, with two sizable sticks running the length of the pain au chocolate. good stuff if you don't mind the price-