Julien Boulangerie - Broad Channel

Great French bakery. Croissants are enormous, one can be easily shared for 2 people. Beautiful tarts. Mastery in presentation and execution.

After living in Paris for a month, we went on a mission to find a real baguette and a real croissant here in NYC. Et voila… Julien has both. Award-winning bread. Authentic Paris.

Stopped in on a Tuesday at around 9. We got this ham and cheese bread and it was still warm. It was so good probably because of all the butter in there. Since the boulangerie was close by to our hotel, we came a few times. We tried their baguette (also very good). We were those tourists just chomping on a whole baguette while walking down the street. You definitely need to finish it on the first day though because it gets very chewy the next day. We also tried one of the premade sandwiches, which was meh. The quiche was not good. It was dry so I would stay away from that one. Overall, we liked this spot and most of the things we ordered. It was better than a lot of other boulangeries we tried, and the prices were good.

I ordered a tart and multiple pastries online for pickup and sadly half of my order was not available. No one called me to tell me. The pistachio roll was green and I wasn't sure but it ended up being incredible. The mixed fruit tart was also fresh and great.

Dry, hard, crusty.artificial food coloring in the pistachio pastry