Choux Cafe - SWANBOURNE

Choux is famous for its macarons, and used to be managed by the celebrated French chef Emannuel Mollois before his sad passing from bone cancer in 2017. It had been a while since our last visit and we decided to pop in for some takeaway afternoon tea following a brunch at the beach. As we arrived, the pastry chef was just transporting a huge and very delicious looking gateau to a client’s car – it looked amazingly good.

A note to anyone who does not eat egg: this wonderful patisserie does a 'Joseph Cake ' which is a circular mille-feuille type of layered pastry-cake with alternate layers of freshly made choux pastry and vanilla cream (fresh whipped and thickened without gelatine) augmented with fresh berries (raspberry, blackberry, blueberry, strawberry) and which is not too sweet either. This is visually beautiful, large and not too sweet. Has to be pre-ordered. I have ordered it many times and every time it is simply a hit. Not expensive. A true home-made, home-created beauty.

Really friendly service. Everything we had was amazing. No complaints at all. We ordered too much, our eyes were bigger than our stomachs but seriously hard not to buy everything in a place like this. My suggestion is share with a friend and try everything!

Lovely french baked goods, coffee pretty mediocre, staff seem interested if quite glib, nice spot to sit out the back. Overall good but seems to have lost a little of its sparkle in the last year ir so

What a lovely place! Croissants are yummy! The coffee is good too (they must have changed coffee supplier or coffee machine in the past few months) . Good atmosphere. The staff is quite nice too. If you want to eat a French style croissant or pastry, that's the place!