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Croissant from Le Fournil de L’artisan

Hey, what do you know?  Another extremely tasty croissant in France.  It’s almost like the bakeries here know what they’re doing.  The only odd thing about this place is that I’ve been in Europe for a couple of weeks, and this was the first time that I had to pay cash for anything.  I’ve been able to tap my credit card for every single purchase thus far, no matter how small, which has been enormously convenient (especially since I have a travel credit card that doesn’t charge any currency conversion fees).

I was actually pretty excited to try Hart Bageri.  It’s the brainchild of Richard Hart, the former head baker at the legendary Tartine Bakery in San Francisco.  He teamed up with Rene Redzepi (the guy behind Noma — generally regarded as one of the best restaurants in the world) to open his own bakery in Copenhagen last year.

I wasn’t planning on eating a trdelník — also known an a chimney cake, or a chimney cone — here in Prague.  They’re available back home, plus it’s pretty clear that they’re more of a tourist thing than anything else.  You’ll have a hard time finding them outside of tourist hotspots.