Patisserie Valerie

[Dizeee]

I really want to like them, but we have had around 4 to 5 sittings now of their fresh cakes, and each and every time I can't help but feel disappointed.

The bottom line is, they have no flavour.

I have done most of the range now and my wife has had a good go, and we both came to the same conclusion. My "Lemon Cheesecake" last night tasted of nothing at all, it was just cheesy and actually quite unpleasant. I felt cheated, and like I had not even had a dessert. The Black Forest slice I find to be average, the Berry Slice mu wife had last night was one of the better ones but still severely lacking in flavour.

Is this a universal opinion? I never even heard of the chain until this year and I expected great things, but to be honest I would rather eat some supermarket puddings over some of their tepid "cakes".

[z4emsee]

I've been a few times in the past and found them to be 'ok'

Why do you keep going back???

[truck71]

Got one here in Chiswick, the stuff looks terrific but tastes nothing like as good as it should. A triumph of marketing. The local independent cake shops are far better even if their fayre doesn't have the fancy visual appeal.

[AmitG]

I've been a few times, mainly the ones in Charing Cross Road and Spitalfields Market, both in central London.

Great presentation, the cakes look really tempting and smell quite nice, but very little flavour. Not a patch on what you would get in France.

Same goes for their ice cream - I have had much better elsewhere.

And they are not cheap either.

[Greenish]

As suspected then. I thank you

[Murph7355]

I suspect you are witnessing a brand over extending and now trading on a reputation that hasn't been deserved for little while....

[Birkin1932]

Try a cream cake in Spain, could not believe it. Look fantastic and all tasted the same.

Of nothing

[Birkin1932]

Try a cream cake in Spain, could not believe it. Look fantastic and all tasted the same.

Of nothing