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By: Nadia Saccardo
Date: 18th Jan 08
Venue: Eatery
Meal: Breakfast
WHAT
LE PAIN QUOTIDIEN
WHERE
CNR FITZROY AND BOURKE ST, SURRY HILLS
WHEN:
MON-SAT 7.30AM-6PM, SAT 8AM-5PM
HOW MUCH
COFFEE: $3.50
BREAD BASKET: $10
MEDITERRANEAN PLATTER: $15.95
CONTACT
9360 8460
Surry Hills is no longer a one-bakery town, there's a new bread kitchen on the block and its dough is primed.
Le Pain Quotidien is a lofty bakery-restaurant so new that you can still smell its pine-tabled wax. Despite its size, there is something incredibly cosy about the interior. Coffee cups come handle-free - made to be cradled, menus rest in half-cut loaves and provincial jams sit ready for the spreading.
Then there's the bread. Using organic flour, the rye, sourdough, five grain, white, spelt and wholemeal loaves are served in thick crusty slabs either by themselves or accompanying a full French-inspired menu of tartines, mixed platters and salads.
We haven’t even touched on dessert, but that's there too, be it chocolate mousse or a mini meringue. Le Pain Quotidien definitely does not signal out with the old, but it does taste a new treat.