USB-C is not one cable
The same connector carries anything from 60W and 480Mbps to 240W and 80Gbps. Nothing on the outside usually tells you which.
Made to order in Lyon
Baked the morning you asked for
Eight cakes, a counter of pastries, and three days’ notice. Nothing here is made before it is wanted.
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Nothing is made in advance Cakes are baked the morning they are collected. That is why we ask for three days rather than offering next-day delivery.
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Seasons close the list The fraisier exists from May to July. When the fruit stops we take it off rather than switch to fruit that tastes of nothing.
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The praline is ours So are the curd, the ganache and the puff pastry. Three things arrive finished: chocolate, butter and flour.
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Allergens are answered, not listed One kitchen handles wheat and nuts. We say so on every page rather than printing “may contain” and hoping.
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The house
Nine people and one oven
We opened in 2016 in a former ironmonger’s with two people and a list of nine things. There are nine of us now and about forty things, which is roughly the right rate of growth for a kitchen that wants to know where everything came from. We close on Mondays. The macarons need two days between shell and filling, the laminated dough is rolled the day before it is baked, and nobody should work six days for a pastry.
Read the whole storyFrom the kitchen
The battery is the product
Almost everything we sell dies for the same reason, and it is the one component the industry has decided you may not…
Inside the K2: a keyboard taken apart
Six screws, a gasket-mounted plate and not one component soldered that did not have to be. Photographed at every stage.
What is on this week
One short letter on a Wednesday: what came into season, what has come off the list, and when we stop taking orders before a holiday. Nothing else, and never a discount code.
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