Ultramar on Pleasant Street in Woodside makes the BEST cheese croissants of any baker around, local or otherwise. I have eaten a lot of croissants—from bakeries, grocery chains, coffee shops, et cetera. I’m a croissant connoisseur. I have had stale ones, greasy ones, mooshy ones…but Ultramar yours are beyond amazing—every time…they are just perfection! The crispy cheese coating, the moist but not greasy flakey inside, the flavor of baked cheese, butter and carbs…mmmm…such satisfaction…the world’s most perfect food. Everyone knows it too…they fly off the shelves in the morning, you can’t get a croissant after noontime. They are gone! You guys need to give whoever bakes these golden delectables a raise because that is one bad ass baker who deserves it. —Croissant Enthusiast
This article appears in Mar 5-11, 2015.
Where’s the bitch?
A croissant connoisseur… buying pastries at a gas station…
Maybe the service station got a good Michelin rating.
isn’t that a gas station?
They probably come in frozen, sit in the freezer and get heated up in a small convection oven, willing to bet other ultramars have this as well but the op just goes to this one gas station all the time.
“LOCAL OR OTHERWISE?”
“Ultramar on Pleasant Street in Woodside makes the BEST cheese croissants of any baker around, local or otherwise.” Croissant Enthusiast
To speak of the BEST croissants, cheese or otherwise, together with an “Ultramar on Pleasant Street in Woodside” is to utter a solecism of the first magnitude, one betraying a complete absence of culinary sensitivity. For, in addition to the croissant itself, one must take into consideration the environment in which it is consumed.
In other words, an elegant patisserie with its small iron tables set outside so that one can enjoy the passing parade with one’s croissant and café-au-lait on Boulevard Saint Laurent here in Montreal or, even better, the Champs Elysee in Paris, beggars a bloody gas station in Dartmouth! Local or otherwise my foot!
A pleasure as always,
Cheerio!
A very amusing response, Mr. Montrealman.
I don’t think anyone’s gonna beat egghead’s quip.
I ain’t even gonna try.
That’s right Willard. I don’t think you should even try.
The Ultramar in Woodside?
Gosh, and here I was thinking that Cafe Vasco de Gama in Montreal was a treat.
I guess I need to expand my horizons.
Road trip to Montreal, ya’ll! Croissant cafe tours and an evening of wine with Montrealman…
That stuff can give you bad gas though. Better give the methyl hydrate handy.
We’ll all meet at the Café Vasco de Gama in the morning for croissants and café-au-lait. Sounds Portuguese. Must be up around St. Anne street.
The evening of wine sounds better, but nothing from the Ultramar in Woodside.