Le Pain Quotidien

88 W Colorado Blvd
Pasadena, CA 91105
(626) 396-0956

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I didn't realize this was an international chain restaurant, but to me it seems a pale imitation of the Alcove Cafe, with interesting looking food, small portions and an overall disappointing experience. The menu made it sound wonderful, but Kelly and I were so disappointed and the portions so small, that we went to Johnny Rockets afterwards.

We both went for sandwiches, I had the Dinde Rotie et sauce auc herbes, which is roasted turkey with herb dressing and Kelly had a sandwich with ricotta cheese, figs, black pepper and honey. All their sandwiches, are a bottom piece of bread, cut into strange and tiny little triangle shapes, with the ingredients on top. The Turkey was bland and dry and very unimpressive. And Kelly's had a lot of cheese, like 2 dried figs and a little bit of honey. They sounded good, but were so unimpressive, with such small portions. And too artful for their own good, on a little plastic plate shaped like an artists pallete. I mean come on, they try too hard.

The place was pretty packed, so the service was pretty slow. The one thing I did like was the Organic Lemonade, which was sweetened with agave, and it was actually too sour, but still damn good.

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I would not eat at this place again, the food was way too unimpressive overall.