A charming French patisserie and coffee shop known for its high-quality savory and sweet pastries, located near Massarik Square in Tel Aviv, often described as a 'Pastry Heaven'.
Pâte & Puff is a charming coffee shop and French patisserie located near Massarik Square in Tel Aviv, often described as a 'Pastry Heaven'. It offers an authentic French vibe with a tastefully decorated interior where customers can observe staff preparing fresh pastries. The establishment is known for its wide selection of both savory and sweet pastries, with limited indoor seating complemented by pleasant outdoor seating in the nearby square.
Customers highly praise the beautiful design and authentic French atmosphere, describing the pastries as fresh, fabulous, and made with high-quality ingredients. Specific dishes like the shakshuka pastry, polenta and mushroom pastry, pistachio and kataifi pastry, chocolate chip cake-cookie with peanut butter, and truffle omelet sandwich receive excellent reviews, with one pastry being rated '10/10 very impressive!' and compared to the Russian 'Napoleon' cake. However, common criticisms include long waiting lines (sometimes over 30 minutes), occasionally disorganized service, average coffee, and disappointing syrup-based tea. There are also mentions of limited seating, challenging parking in the area, and the high price of desserts. A significant concern was raised about an owner/manager vaping and touching food without gloves in the preparation area.
Additional Details
Pâte & Puff has another branch located at Keren Hayesod 31, Herzliya. The Tel Aviv branch is situated at Sderot Masaryk 15, Tel Aviv-Yafo. It has been mentioned as one of the '24 Best Cafes in Tel Aviv'.
Given the frequent mentions of long waiting lines, it is advisable to visit during off-peak hours or weekdays to avoid crowds and potential service delays.
Nice new coffee place near Massarik Square. The interior is nicely decorated and clean, but there aren't many sitting options on the premises. Since the square has many benches and nice scenery, we didn't much care about sitting specifically in the cafe.
There is a long waiting line, over 30 minutes, along with a somewhat unorganized service which definitely has a place for improvement but we take under consideration that this is a very new place.
The egg truffle sandwich, pistachio danish and coffee were tasty. Uncertain if they justify the line.
Overall we had a nice time, and will probably come back to try again somewhere in the future, after the place has had some time to settle.
This area is very challenging for parking.
First thing to notice is the beautiful design of the cafe. There's also a second level where you can sit and look at the workers making pastries.
We came here on weekday and it was empty with nice vibe.
The service was nice, and there's a good amount of pastries and desserts to choose from. Only downside is the high price of the desserts (more than average price in Tel Aviv).
5
The coffee was good, sadly no option for reusable cup. The baked goods were all delicious. But the standout dish for me was the sandwich omelet with truffle. The atmosphere was cozy and inviting, I would highly recommend it to anyone looking for a nice place to open your morning with nice coffee and pastries . Be sure to try the sandwich omelet with truffle - it's a must-have!
1
Probably one of the worst patisseries I’ve ever been to.
I bought 4 of their “best pastries” and where do I start?
The croissant (and all pastries) literally, got no layers. Feel like under cooked very bad dough!
I have never had a croissant this bad in my life or a pastry this bad in general.
Their fillings in their pastries is really tasteless and in the ones that supposed to have fillings to stand out, had almost no feeling so it was just the bad dough.
I’ll stay away and eat an almond croissant at Aroma (literally and I can’t believe I’m saying it, cause their pastries are so mediocre).
If I could minus -5/5 I would. But unfortunately, I can only rate it 1/5.
2
Really beautiful and tasty place with so much products for home to buy, BUT awful service. 1. We wanted to buy cheese place - non of the workers knew the price and they kept on telling us we don’t know and hided in the kitchen. We waited for one hour to know the price and just because we kept on annoying them with the same question How much. They were not interested in selling products. 2. My 11year old sister wanted iced coffee, but they stated they have only hot one. Which was wired. They were quite rude to us and the feeling that we ow them was strange as we didn’t expect to get such a service in such a wonderful place. I recommend you to work with the personal as this attitude will bring you less costumers.
I’m attaching beautiful photos of the location, cheese place we wanted to buy and workers that worked that day.
Thank you.
