La Boulangerie

I love the blueberry loaf and sweet potato cream cheese bun. Their bread is moist and not overly sweet. I also appreciate that they sell left over breads at a discounted price. I think that shows they they value food and do not just dispose of less fresh products.

The wedding and birthday cakes here are decent. Not great but good. The price is excellent. If you don’t want to shell out $ 8 per person for a 100 people for a birthday party, they will do it for $ 300.

Ehhh. Green tea bubble tea had no taste of green tea. So strange. It wasn’t sweet. Strangest bubble tea I’ve ever had. It wasn’t good.
Baked goods were just okay… I wouldn’t go back.

Bakery back to the past. 1980’s. They need to modernize their product. Besides of that everything is ok

I love their bread! Go early in the morning when everything is made fresh. My favorite is the pumpkin bread.

Despite its name, La Boulangerie isn’t quite a French bakery– it’s Korean. You won’t find any authentic, or even Americanized French products on display here, and it’s apparent from the moment you step into the store, erasing any potential deception as what products are being sold here.
As far as I know of, there are quite a few Asian-​style bakeries in the area. From my knowledge, there are at least 9 of these types of bakeries that sell the same thing as La Boulangerie around the area. Some are at the supermarkets, some are from large Asian bakery chains, and a few small stores like this. Out of all these bakeries, this one in particular still stands out. It’s not any cheaper nor more expensive, but it does tend to make a few things in their selection that the others don’t, namely the red bean streusel bread. None of the other places around here make it. They do have a few other unique pieces, but I don’t know if they’re permanent fixtures on the menu.
I’ve never had a single bread or pastry from here that I didn’t like, and even though there’s a small booth for Shilla bakery in the same shopping center as this bakery, I always stop by La Boulangerie first.

Ehhhh… This bakery is super small and they don’t have a lot of options to choose from. I was constantly going around and around in the bakery trying really hard to pick pastries I wanted to eat. eventually, I picked two things that I wanted to eat. I got a cream filled sweet bread and green tea sweet potato bread.
The cream filled sweet bread was pretty good, but it took a whole till I got to the cream all the way in the middle of the bread. The cream was so good. It was filled with cocktail fruits and the bread had really sweet and buttery crumbles on it. It was all topped with powdered sugar!
Ehhhh don’t get the green tea sweet potato. I thought I would like this because it has all the things I LOVE in it, but it was a disappointment. I think because it had a cream cheese flavor in it and I don’t like when my food has cream cheese in it. The cream in the middle was mushy and the green tea swirl on the top of the bread was interesting. The flavors didn’t really match up.

Loving this new found place.
Check the photos.
Just be observant of days old pieces.
Price is OK to me… dont have to drive to ROckville.

There products are not fresh. They reuse from the day before. I think this place is kinda dying in business and foot traffic due to the new bakeries on Rt 40, but if you happen to be in the shopping center, it’s a good quick spot to grab something. Honestly, when I’m at Lotte across the parking lot, I still drive 2 min to a different bakery where I know things are freshly made.
They promised me that their iced coffee was «really good.» I bought it, tasted it, and did not drink after that sip. It was SOooo BAD; it was like drinking all sugar and water. (They probably used instant coffee packs… It was def not real coffee. Was way too sweet to drink)
The workers are nice though and it does have the same type of baked goods and desserts as other korean bakeries. But the décor is quite old and needs work to bring in customers.

Overly sweet bubble tea. All sweet bakery goods, no salty ones. Typical Asian bakery variety.

To the cashier: I am not Korean. Please stop talking to me in that language. Why don’t you try English first for a change?
If you are Asian looking at all, be prepared for the people at this bakery to bombard you with incomprehensible sounds (unless you happen to actually understand them — more power to you). This place is not cheap; it’s also not on the level of highway robbery yet. Think ~$ 1.40 for a bread. There are a few things that are remarkable about this place:
1) red bean streusel bread. Probably the tastiest thing in here, it’s a kind of like a red bean pineapple bread but rather than being topped with a flaky cookie it’s covered with a decadent layer of thin cookie and streusel bits. Amazeballs.
2) the people who come here are all kinds of interesting. One time we saw this old guy wearing a silver PSY suit complete with shades and a walking stick. He told me a joke in Korean to which he laughed like Santa, and then walked away.
3) no real salty stuff here. If you’re looking for hot dog rolls or pork sun rolls, go elsewhere. this establishment is for getting diabetes only.

It’s a small Korean bakery, with bread, cookies, bubble tea, and creative looking cakes and cake rolls. I enjoyed the red bean chestnut buns — sweet, nutty dough surrounding rich, dense red bean paste. They were not too sweet, filling, and 4 small ones were around $ 4. I didn’t try the bubble tea because I was too full, but it looked good. It was a nice little bakery with a variety of unique Korean baked goods, however it wasn’t so great that I’d make it a point to go back.

I always come here after I eat at one of the Korean restaurants across the street. It’s a regular Korean bakery, nothing too special, or too bad about it. It is small and the pastries are all OK. They don’t offer anything particularly unique in their pastries but they taste decent.

I guess I’m the only person who likes it here.
This is what I always get, without fail:
–Red bean bun. It is fantastic and delicious. This red bean is one of the best foods on the planet.
–Green tea strawberry boba tea. Again, way delicious. Best bubble yea I’ve ever had.
I usually get out of here spending around $ 5. This place is a hike from my house, but I don’t mind spoiling myself here every now and again!

My family and I use to come here often for birthday cakes/​rolls. It was moist, fresh, and not super sweet. Now, the prices has gone through the roof and quality has suffered because of the absence of customers. I now come here sparingly for their mocha rolls ($ 10 – 15) and I like the ones with almond/​nuts crusted on the outside of the roll. There is a nice comfortable seating area (2 – 3 tables) inside the shop but it’s usually pretty dirty and often times been neglected.
This shop shares a parking lot with a mechanic shop and Lotte Plaza (Korean Supermarket). On weekends, it’s difficult to find a parking spot.

Located across the parking lot from Lotte, La Boulangerie is the Korean bakery with the French name. Actually come think of it, the other Korean bakery in Ellicott City is «Bön Appetit» and when I visited Korea, there was a large chain called «Paris Baguette.» I guess Korean people like their baked goods to be associated with France or something…
Anyways, if you’re looking for a French bakery, you’ll be disappointed. This is a distinctly Korean-​style bakery. So what defines a Korean-​style bakery? Good question. It’s one of those «je né sais pas» sort of things. But if I had to, I’d say the items are generally less sweet than their American counterparts, with a lot of emphasis on fillings and creams. There also tends to be a bit of focus on the look of the pastries and cakes. It should look fancy and/​or cute. If that makes no sense, just visit a Korean bakery and you’ll understand :)
Anyways, you’ll find small baked goods (wrapped in plastic bags) or you can buy huge cakes. The cakes tend to be expensive so I don’t really buy them except for special occasions. However, the pastries, though little pricey are decent. The sweet bun filled with sweet red beans is a good place to start. Beans? Sweet? Yeah, I know. But just try it. I also like the gombo ppang, which is this flaky, sweet bun. It has a crumbly top that resembles some coffee cakes… and it also goes well with coffee.
Overall, a decent place. I think I prefer Bön Appetit a little bit more, but La Boulangerie isn’t too bad either.

They don’t have many selections of pastries, but all the ones we’ve ordered seemed fresh. We’ve also tried their tiramisu cake and it was pretty good.
Nothing out of the ordinary, but it’s not horrible neither.
Parking is a little sucky because it’s in the same plaza as Lotte and it’s always very hard to find parking there =P
Bottom line: it’s not bad… not my go-​to pastry shop, but it will do if i’m craving it while shopping at lotte =P

This was the final leg of my Korean food adventure… yum!
I opted for a coffee and a streusel red bean pastry-​thing. It was divine! Most of the desserts had some sort of bean filling… red bean… white bean… green bean (lolz wth) Being a lover of red bean everything, the red bean pastry-​thing rocked. It wasn’t flaky, more yeast donut-​like but baked instead of deep fried with a streusel crunchy crumb topping. When I think pastry, I think flaky pilsbury roll kind of deal… maybe I’m just a hick or something? But the red bean roll/​pastry-​thing was awesome!
Kind of pricey for a bakery, but the packaging is dear and the treats are nice. It’s an occasional thing, so it is worth it. Coffee was decent also. They have bubble tea with some fixin’s which is a nice addition.
Btw…they cleaned that dusty cake that was mentioned below. The place looked pretty clean. +1

A clean and okay-​tasting Korean bakery. It’s probably one of the nicer ones around (there’s one in the Lotte Food Court, one in H-​Mart).
I find that the individually plastic-​wrapped breads are a bit on the smaller side and run more on the expensive side when compared to Chinese bakery goods.
This place has your typical Korean baked breads and cakes.

This little Korean bakery ain’t all that bad, but not all that great either compared to other Korean bakeries. Samples would make this place better and so would a good cleaning. Although not «dirty» there were things that made it seem not as clean such as dust on the model cake. The iced coffee was alright although the clear plastic cups leaked around the lid.