Plan B by Becasse

I went to the cafe Becasse in the new Westfield in the city. We felt like something sweet and coffee. We ordered first time a danish and a croissant and we were very dissapointed. When you pay over 17 AUS for two buns and 2 coffes I find it is expensive and you want quality for this price. Their produce only looks good,but the taste does not match the looks. The danish and croissant were not crunchy at all, had a "boring" taste, like something was missing in the dough. After trying to bake croissants at home for the second time mine turned out much better without the experience they have. Overall very poor product, very overpriced with good looks though ; perhaps for people, who have no idea, how to bake,it is more appealling. I gave them second chance and went second time there. Apart from coffees we ordered pistacchio and strawberry dessert, which looked like bavarois, but was in reality whipped cream with strawberry taste and pistacchio aroma and some crushed nuts on the bottom instead of a nut bisquite, cinnamon twist: -chewy and hot cross bun, which  was pleasantly light, but again to expensive, at least they should try to serve it with some butter on the side. Overall my score is 5 out of 10 and I would not recommend it. I am not sure, if it helps the business to show the customers the apprentices working in the baking room when they have dough fights and throw pieces of dough at each other, do they use the dough later in the baking?

Posted on Thu 08 Mar 2012 22:54:28