Clafouti Patisserie & Café

Imagine an Oreo and a croissant got married, had a baby, and went on a family vacation to Mexico where they stayed out in the sun too long, got toasted, and dried out. That was my Crookie. Read: dry and stale.
I was really looking forward to enjoying a nice, fresh, sweet afternoon treat — imagine, a croissant stuffed with Oreos! But, no. We visited around 1:00 PM on a weekday afternoon a few months ago, and ordered one Crookie to share. Thank goodness we only purchased one. It was really, really stale, dried out, and tasted like it had been sitting out for a good, long while. Disappointing.
I hear their almond croissants are worth a try, but after my first experience, I’m not sure I’ll be back. In any event, if you do check this place out, go in the morning — in the earlier hours, you’ll probably have better luck grabbing a fresher pastry than I did. Two stars — for novelty, I guess.

I’ve probably walked past this place a million times. Each time I do, I’m generally thinking about caving in on eating healthy and biting into one of their delicious almond croissants! Soft, flaky, and buttery to the touch, I’m drooling a bit on my shirt just thinking about it.
They have a variety of other baked pastries, sandwiches, as well as other random food items on the shelves. To be honest, I only come for one thing though… the goods.

the staff i’ve interacted with have all been nice. avoid the regular croissant — it’s as bad as a supermarket one. the chocolate croissant was better, but there are other places for better. the other croissants with different fillings looked like they could be promising but i haven’t tried them. i’d likely save my money for croissants and go further (Patisserie 27 further west is good)

Kind of dingy. Came here for the sandwiches and the oreo croissant… oreo croissant is quite good but everything else is sub par.

I find Clafouti to be pretty hit or miss.
In my experience, the almond croissant is the only thing that is consistently good. A couple of times I’ve gone the pastries seemed like they had been sitting for awhile. When the product is fresh, it’s great — but sadly, scoring a fresh treat is a gamble you’ll have to take.
Cash & debit only. Don’t expect anything more than mediocre service.

First of all, this place only inconveniently offers cash or debit. So we went back to get credit card, by the time my partner was back, we received our cold coffees on our arrival. We went and sat outside; which had a very uneven table. We spilt all of our coffees. I then proceeded to tell the male worker behind the counter who did not even offer to remake our coffees. After our meal, I told him that if would have been polite on his part to remake our coffees. He did remake one of the coffees however did it rather impolitely. He was being extremely loud behind the counter with the dishes and served our coffee with attitude. Never coming back. Croissant was also dry.

Clafouti is my «go to» bakery whenever I’m spending the day at Trinity Bellwoods.
Their croissants are always great. My favourite is the almond croissant. The chocolate croissants are really good too. There are also great lunch options with various croissant sandwiches. Their baked goods are also reasonably priced compared to other bakeries.
There isn’t much seating in the café but who needs seating when you have a park close by? This is a great place to drop in and grab something on the go.

I used to buy croissants from Clafouti for a very long time and it used to be my Sunday morning ritual to wake up, go there and have the delicious cinnamon brown sugar croissants and often also buy a few extras for people at home. I also often sent my staff to buy croissants for our business meetings and I used to swear by your croissants. Over time I noticed that you guys started cutting back on the brown sugar, the cinnamon and this past weekend, I got a croissant with pretty much NOTHING in the center. That will be my last trip to your store and I will also stop my staff from buying croissants from your store for our business meetings. You have really dropped your quality and reliability. It’s very sad. I have a long history of bringing even out of town visitors to your spot and I have to go find other options

To keep it short and sweet:
I’m definitely a fan of the food, would have given a 5, but the waitstaff/​service would give this place a 1 or 2, which is too bad because the pastries are to die for.
I got the whole «cool to be bitchy» vibe and it’s just not the vibe I’m down with when I’m paying for something, which is contributing to paying for that bitchy person working at the counter.

It’s O.K. to eat in downtown.
Whole Foods ones are much more fresh.

They have nice combo deals for relatively good pricing. Service wasn’t overally friendly to be honest but it did look like They have a lot of nice pastries to pair w coffee.

Clafouti is a cute-​ish kind of place you’d want to stumble into on a cold night. It’s intimate and quaint, but neither trendy nor fancy. They make mean croissants. Especially those of the almond variety — they are deadly.
I had the grilled vegetable sandwich warmed up. Grilled vegetables were wedged between two half slices of a croissant. The different sandwiches looked a little sad in the display but one bite of it changed my opinion. The vegetables were fresh and crispy and the croissant was also fresh and very flakey.
I can’t wait to be back for more baked goods, I just can’t believe i walked by this place so many times with nary a peak inside.

Guys, these are the best croissants in the city, bar none. Always fresh and warm. Great friendly service. The place is cute and tiny and oh so charming.
Their clafouti is also amazing, if you can resist purchasing a croissant.
The coffee is horrible (burnt, always burnt, I hate balzacs) but that’s not why you come here. YOU COME FOR THE CROISSANTS!

Amazing lychee caramel clafouti. The crust tasted divine and not too dense. I wish I could eat a lychee clafouti often!

Clafouti is a small patisserie and café, very, very small. Unfortunately, the layout is quite terrible and I missed out on buying a few items because I simply didn’t see them until I was on my way out!
First place in the city I’ve seen mango macarons! My sandwich was so good with goat cheese, grilled vegetables and walnuts. I ate a pistachio macaron on the way home, while it was delicious, big and chewy (apparently Nadege isn’t the best) it lacked the flavour of pistachios. Hopefully it was just an oversight and not the way their macarons are usually flavoured. The mango is definitely mango-​y!
I’m a satisfied customer here. I can’t wait to come back on my next day off and take my sandwich to Trin-​Bel!

I first came to this place for the crookie, but now I keep coming back for the bread and croissants.
My favorite is the muesli bread which is delicious! It also has raisins in it too! I’ve also tried the olive foccacia, which was also delicious and smelled fantastic but man the paper bag was like so oily.
The almond croissant are my favorite, they cut a big croissant in half and then put this almond paste in the middle like a sandwich.
The one thing I’d say is they kinda cool. The don’t give too much emotion whenever I’m there. Gimme some pleasantries.
With that said, I’ll still come back for their bread and croissants!

I had the turkey & brie sandwich and a tea. Had I ventured furthered inside, I would have discovered the deliciously seductive French pastries lining the window display. My sandwich made for a satisfying lunch (~$ 8). I stayed for over an hour reading my book and no one gave me grief. Bear in mind, there are only 3 2-​person tables inside!
I will return next time to taste those French delicacies and the butter croissants people are raving about!

Cream clafouti is OK but otherwise, the croissants are absolutely strange. The butter croissants looks like brioches — muffins, and the plain croissants are just pie crusts in a triangle shape. There are some interesting clafouti i.e., lychee caramel but not a hit
at all especially the croissants! And i don’t care about crookies.
Buy yourself a box of Oreos.

Having read about the crookie in a NY Times article, I wanted to check out this French café! Very quaint and I thought that I was sitting in a Paris neighborhood. The cappucino was excellant and the crookie was amazing. A mix of a croissant and oreo cookie, it was creative and nice. This place was great for people watching as well. Would certainly go back!
Dont forget to stock up on the Les Anis de Flavigny French candy! Amazing.

I was walking along in the neighbourhood, saw this place from the park and decided to check it out. I walked in and my eyes were drawn to the Crookie! I had heard about these beauties a few weeks ago but didn’t really pay attention to where I could get one. So imagine my surprise when I just randomly stumbled upon them. I picked one up and skipped along to the park to try it out. I will say that I’m not a huge fan of croissants. I don’t dislike them, but I never order one at a café. *for those of you who don’t know what a Crookie is, it’s a croissant stuffed with crushed Oreos and plenty of the soft white centre, topped with half of an oreo*
When I took my first bite, I think my jaw dropped. My second bite? I was completely sold. This might just be the best dessert I’ve ever had. It actually fairly heavy because of all the Oreos inside. Seriously, try one immediately. You won’t be sorry.

My sister and I ventured over to Clafouti for the sole purpose of trying their Crookies. Personally, I think they are much better than the infamous cronuts (although I’ve only had «imitation cronuts» and not the real deal).
When we arrived at the shop there was a bit of a line up that snaked out the door. Considering Clafouti is a small store we were not discouraged by this line. The service was pretty good as we did not wait too long for someone to take our order and the staff were nice and efficient and we got everything we ordered (crookies!), no problems.
This bakery is known for their croissants and cookies so I did not expect anything less than amazing from this glorious creation of an Oreo stuffed croissant. The verdict: they did not disappoint. The croissant was fresh, a little flaky, and not too buttery but a good flavour balance to the sweet, sweet oreo cookies that were jammed inside. It tasted similar to a chocolate croissant (with additional oreo cream filling of course) and definitely something I would recommend for someone with a sweet tooth.
Overall, I had a great experience at this store. I thought the service was excellent and I really enjoyed the crookies. As a fan of chocolate and junk food I would definitely rate this treat as something that is unhealthy but unbelievably tasty. I plan on returning to this bakery in the near future to try their cookies/​croissants (not stuffed inside each other though, separately next time).

Simply the best croissant place in Toronto!
A very small and cozy bakery located on the far west side of Queen street that always sell out of its yummy croissants before closing.
The size of the croissant is daintier than most of the «American-​size» ones we see out there, but one is enough to satiate your cravings. I usually go for the classic croissant but last time I ventured their fig croissant and feta and cheese croissant — equally as good.
Their shrimp and avocado croissant sandwich cannot be missed either. All in all folks, hands down for Claufoti *woot woot*.
I suggest you try their latte as well, as it is served interestingly in a small bowl instead of a cup and full of flavor.
Let me know if you share the same appreciation once you try this place out.
Cheerios!