Croissant Snob

The limitless search for the best croissants in a city full of viennoiseries.

The platonic ideal croissant has three defining characteristics: flavor, flake, and bite. As a non-professional pastry chef but a professional judge of pastries, I am seldom thinking about technique or number of layers, so much as I am thinking about the texture of what I am eating and whether it has a distinct flavor.

In my mind, there are two kinds of …