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I find new eating places in the neighbourhood sometimes by accident.

I happened to be walking along a section of a nearby shopping centre in an area that is sometimes on my beaten path and found a French bakery and pastry company has moved into a small shop previously occupied by who knows what. There is a constant turnover of businesses in the area and within the time frame of a few of months it is not impossible to find a business has closed its doors for whatever reason and vanished into the blue.

Sometimes the doors remained closed for quite some time and the post person does what they are paid to do and that is not think and make personal decisions. They are paid to deliver the mail and even if it builds up into a decent sized pile they must keep stuffing it under the door.

In the case of the French bakery there was very little if any time gap, meaning the alignment of commercial stars; rent, facilities and market share placement must have met an approved business criterion.

The business is a little upmarket for the area which is largely populated by students, both secondary and tertiary. Usually this is a demographic who doesn’t have much cash to splash, especially the tertiary band, who appear to be not as well supported by parents as the secondary students.  It will be interesting to see just how long it holds its place on the street.

I was curious and stepped inside the door to see what was offering.

It is a much smaller version of a very up-to-the-minute café/bakery the same company owns over in the Wood of Colling.   Same pastries and cakes and same bread; I imagine this is delivered on a daily basis from this main bakery.  Their bread, albeit expensive, is excellent.

The seated area at the back holds only a few small tables and is closeted away from the action of the main shop area. However it does have the distinct advantage of being  whole lot easier to access than the main shop in the Wood of Colling, which for me, entails a few changes of transport and a few hours to enjoy the experience.

I may just patronise this new shop in the neighbourhood on an irregular basis.