Louisa Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 Anyone know what they are like? I've heard talk of them coming to Lordship Lane. Never been in one or seen one for that matter. Louisa. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/33352-paul-bakerycafe/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonMix Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 They are French. They have a few in central London. In Paris you find them at the train station but here they try to position themselves as a bit more upmarket. Think nice baguettes, soups, salads, French pastries and macaroons etc.Do they have a location in mind or are they still looking? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/33352-paul-bakerycafe/#findComment-654850 Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilson99 Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 It's like a French Greggs isn't it?! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/33352-paul-bakerycafe/#findComment-654852 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louisa Posted June 17, 2013 Author Share Posted June 17, 2013 Well a few people have mentioned to me the 'Soup Dragon' premises, and on the southwark planning application site it does mention change of use from A1 to A3, so that's the only likely place I can think of currently. But thats been spoken about in length on another thread in the business section, so who knows. Unless someone else knows differently? Louisa. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/33352-paul-bakerycafe/#findComment-654854 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ontheedge Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 They're the only place I know that do chouquette, air filled tiny Choux pastry which feels like zil calories but probably millions Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/33352-paul-bakerycafe/#findComment-654855 Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilson99 Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 Its a bloody outrage! Out of town chains threatening the livelihoods of LL's independent cafes? Probably undercutting them with their high quality, good value produce served in a customer friendly manner!Perhaps James Barber will start a campaign against this? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/33352-paul-bakerycafe/#findComment-654862 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louisa Posted June 17, 2013 Author Share Posted June 17, 2013 Apparently there's on Northcote Road? Checked their website and they're hardly a multinational chain, and they've got a limited number of outlets in the UK. Sounds good though! Louisa. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/33352-paul-bakerycafe/#findComment-654864 Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncleglen Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 We don't have to patronise them Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/33352-paul-bakerycafe/#findComment-654867 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex K Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 I should be delighted if Paul were to come to Lordship Lane. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/33352-paul-bakerycafe/#findComment-654870 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguinpost Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 Paul would be a fabulous addition to the Lane! It needs another quality cafe down there. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/33352-paul-bakerycafe/#findComment-654887 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jah Lush Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 There was one at Canary Wharf when I worked there. More bakery/cake shop that sells coffee too than a caf?. I'm sure you'll think it a bit poncey when you see one Louisa. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/33352-paul-bakerycafe/#findComment-654891 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earl Aelfheah Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 LondonMix Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> In Paris you find them at the train> station but here they try to position themselves> as a bit more upmarket.There's one in Waterloo station. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/33352-paul-bakerycafe/#findComment-654898 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Applespider Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 More upmarket than Greggs/Upper Crust and less upmarket than Gails/Le Pain Quotidien Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/33352-paul-bakerycafe/#findComment-654901 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louisa Posted June 17, 2013 Author Share Posted June 17, 2013 Applespider Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> More upmarket than Greggs/Upper Crust and less> upmarket than Gails/Le Pain QuotidienFits perfectly into the demographic then, because Dulwich Village already has a Gail's. http://www.gailsbread.co.uk/?CategoryID=301#dulwichLouisa. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/33352-paul-bakerycafe/#findComment-654903 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 East Dulwich is becoming a French person's dream. EDD, Gail's, Paul... Bliss. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/33352-paul-bakerycafe/#findComment-654907 Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilson99 Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 France, Spain, Holland, Japan, UK, Marocco, Lebanon, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman - Bluewater, Canary Wharf and Waterloo. Not multi national - just inter-continental! And yes a limited number outlets, if you number outlets in the 100s as any kind of limit. Good produce, great marketing all done to a proven and winning formula - let's not pretend it's a chi chi little French patisserie though! It's Starbucks by another name. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/33352-paul-bakerycafe/#findComment-654914 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Applespider Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 Louisa Wrote:> Fits perfectly into the demographic then, because> Dulwich Village already has a Gail's. I know... I cycle past on my to work and have been known to stop for a lovely warm treat (cinnamon bun or a muffin) on the way. It does make me chuckle when I'm standing there in bike helmet etc ordering a takeaway muffing and they offer me a coffee. Um... not entirely convinced how safe it would be cycling down the road drinking a latte! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/33352-paul-bakerycafe/#findComment-654920 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 Surely this is a Louisa wind-up. Following on from the newly found admiration for Pret-a-Manger.I actually think Paul are perfectly fine, but we don't exactly have an obvious gap in the market for somewhere to get a coffee and a croissant. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/33352-paul-bakerycafe/#findComment-654953 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annette Curtain Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 Posh + very middle class + quite dullVisiting in-laws wearing faded pastels and smelling of violets will like itMeh Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/33352-paul-bakerycafe/#findComment-655033 Share on other sites More sharing options...
StraferJack Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 If you ARE going to have a coffee and pastry shop chain thingy, at least Paul have some claim to pastries and bread which are much better than Nero/Starbucks etc?Nero coffee isn't bad but their pastries are pap Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/33352-paul-bakerycafe/#findComment-655036 Share on other sites More sharing options...
'bout now Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 Everything is ?6-12 Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/33352-paul-bakerycafe/#findComment-655044 Share on other sites More sharing options...
StraferJack Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 And you have to eat it on the street. Standing up Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/33352-paul-bakerycafe/#findComment-655048 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louisa Posted June 18, 2013 Author Share Posted June 18, 2013 John exactly I can think of far worse examples of chain shops, and judging by their website they are not at all widespread across London or the rest of the country. Jeremy it's not a wind up at all, just a rumour I had heard from a few friends one of whom had spoken with a person employed at one of the branches. It may well not come to anything, lets face it, as pointed out already, this area is hardly a coffee/bakery desert. As for the location I just guessed the former 'soup dragon' premises purely because of the change of use for the shop on the southwark planning application. Louisa. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/33352-paul-bakerycafe/#findComment-655051 Share on other sites More sharing options...
StraferJack Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 I always get a tingle when Louisa calls me by my first name Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/33352-paul-bakerycafe/#findComment-655054 Share on other sites More sharing options...
edcam Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 I have a friend who worked for them and they treat their staff abominably, so I never use them. They're also criminally overpriced. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/33352-paul-bakerycafe/#findComment-655065 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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