Le Dix-Sept Patisserie

A lovely bakery with an ever changing and exciting selection of desserts.🧁 Le Dix Sept is one of my favorite neighborhood spots! Be sure to try the canelé and the cupcakes where they have them!!

I really do love the coffee and the treats here — they’re always great. But I truly don’t understand how this place stays in business with how slow the service is. Every time I come, it’s extraordinarily slow. I’m all for “good things are worth the wait,” and that’s honestly why I keep coming back, but it feels like it gets slower each visit. This morning I came on a weekday with only one person ahead of me, and it still took more than 15 minutes for one coffee to be made. I’m not exaggerating — it consistently takes that long. I just don’t understand how they operate like this but my chocolate cookie is unreal!

The Dix-Sept team hosted our run club this morning. The pastries were so spectacular. One of the best canele I’ve had in SF. Good drinks, good savory pastries too. Gabi was great!

Cute tiny bakery with a handful of small tables for outdoor seating. Known for the cannelé, which is fine, but small, pricy (~$5), and fairly boring flavorwise. Other pastries are similarly decent but not amazing, with a few unusual flavors like calamansi almond tart. Also serves coffee, does not have bread. No line at noon on a Saturday. Fine to try if you're in the neighborhood, but there are other, better bakeries in SF.

Sorry to leave a mediocre review but unfortunately this bakery just doesn’t hit the mark for me. It’s really a shame since we are walking distance and were super excited to have a new bakery to go to, but most likely will continue to go to our tried and true places even if they are farther and not walking distance (top favorites tartine, ariscault, Jane’s). Their prices were even steeper than those aforementioned bakeries which I think justify higher prices. We got the savory scone which was more of a bread consistency than scone and was sweet as well, I suspect there was use of quite some sugar, and the breakfast bread which was also sweet and was pricey for the small size. Of course each item was labeled with price so it’s not as though we didn’t know the price before purchasing, but the surprise was that the baked goods did not meet our bar for exemplary bakery so the extra high prices were for sure not worth it. Also, I didn’t even feel like trying the $10 ones simply because I was pretty sure that even though they looked delicious, there was no way they would taste yummy enough to justify the $10 price. The chagamatcha was flavorful but again, a small cup for $8 which is more like a $10 beverage after tax and tip. Never again. The display case itself was cute. There is no indoor seating, just the ordering counter, but there were several tables and chairs on the sidewalk or concrete benches. Staff was friendly though on slower side, line moved quite slowly to the point that someone commented that they are definitely a new business and haven’t ramped up yet.