La Brioche Doree

Ordered a black coffee and a bacon egg and cheese croissant. 9.99 coffee was OK and croissant was ice cold! Despite there attempts to microwave it. No one cared, will never go back. There’s a reason there is rarely a line for this café in the morning! If you can’t sell coffee to travelers at 7am… THERE’S A REASON! Goto Pete’s or the bucks, you’ll thank me later.

Slow, got the order wrong 3 time for 2 items!
The «heated» sandwich turkey and Brie was ok until you realize it’s cold inside and has a big blob on Jam! Not sure how and why that was there. It was displayed in a baguette but the lady gave me a sliced bread sandwich till I mentioned I wanted it like the displayed baguette, she swapped it with the right bread.
This business has the potential to double the number of customers if they have decent servers behind the counter.
Service is a big FAIL.

There’s a default gag order on anyone eating their sandwiches here… yup, you automatically gag on their food.
I ordered their vegetarian sandwich which is nothing more than badly sliced chunks of mozzarella over badly sliced chunks of tomatoes. I asked for it to be toasted, and the server clearly doesn’t know what that means… the end result was doughy bread, that was cold in places, the mozzarella held on like a rock… no sign of a healthy melt anywhere, and the overall outcome was a mess that tasted just like a mess
Don’t waste your money here!

Quick lunch! Fresh sandwiches! Always working and on the go! I recommend this place when your in SJC Airport.

My go-​to place for chocolate croissants, scones, and sandwiches. Always tasty! Never tried their drinks… I go to illy for my caffeine fix, it’s the best.

Very Frenchie sounding name for an airport coffeeshop/patisserie…but their coffee is not good (just regular coffee, no cappuccinos, no sophisticated coffee drinks at all). So I had my capu from the Starbucks just nearby and the sandwich from La Brioche dorée and that was really good. All their pastries looked like fresh from the over and delicious. Sandwiches were very generous in content. Mine with apple, cheese and ham was great. Bread was fresh and all the ingredients melt very well. Customer service was good considering the high frequency of customers.

We dropped into Brioche before our flight to Denver.
I picked up an Apple, Turkey, and Brie on baguette with a coke (which was much less expensive than the newspaper stand next door).
The cashier warmed up the sammie, and while it was fairly tasty, the apple just didn’t mix well with the brie they used. It wasn’t the greatest, but was the protein I needed to stay less cranky for the flight.
The service was slow, but friendly and while I might stop in again, I definitely would choose a different sandwich next time.

Decided to get the brie and turkey with green apples. Had them heat it up, stuck it in my larger-​than-​Mary-​Poppins sized purse, and then forgot all about it.
Had a layover in Denver, missed my flight, which why I am still sitting here 4 hours later to catch a later flight, and somewhere in between the chaos, realized I had a sammich!
Mannnn…who cares that it was cold, I thought it was yummy! The apples with the cheese and turkey made it taste almost like the apples were caramelized and I just could not get enough. Mind you, I had asked the server to cut the sandwich into halves thinking I would save some for later, but forget that! I ate both halves like I had been stranded for days and not hours.
Ok, was it truly the BEST sandwich I have ever had? Absolutely not, but I am always disappointed with airport food, and for once, I wasn’t. And it DID taste good. Make sure you have them toast it… makes all the diffeence. Service was great too.

La Brioche Doree Café is my go-​to breakfast, sandwich and baked goods option at San Jose Mineta International Airport, Terminal B (Southwest & Alaska). I wish they had a 3^rd bagel flavor (I’m bored of cinnamon raisin and plain) but everything I’ve had here has been good, including the aforementioned bagels, breakfast sandwiches, and lunch-​appropriate sandwiches. The salads look good too but I haven’t tried any of them yet. Brioche Doree has a great chocolate chip cookie too. Brioche Doree is located between gates 23 and 22, hidden behind the Hudson News kiosk and Santa Cruz Wine Bar, and is to your immediate left as you instinctively head — following the caffeine-​seeking crowd — to the oversubscribed Starbucks. People, there are better baked goods to your left.

Good sandwich place, good service. Great croissants. Love their tuna salad croissant!

I came to the airport planning to get lunch past security before my flight. I was really in the mood for one of those Starbucks breakfast sandwiches but the airport version of Starbucks didn’t have those. I glanced to my left and saw no line at La Brioche Doree and went over to check it out and saw that they DID have breakfast croissant sandwiches and got the egg/​ham/​cheese kind. He heated it up for me and it was probably one of the best breakfast sandwiches I’ve ever had! I was VERY surprised to say the least! Yay!

I usually get a plain croissant here. I always find them mildly stale even when the toast them. I guess of the choices here it’s average.

Ok, it is 5:30 am. I see why they think slipping a Jiffy mix kinda blueberry scone by me seems plausible. Coffee is just ok, but the scones look ok and don’t have the worst flavor, but when you really examine it you realize I should have stood in the Starbucks line.

WOahhhhhh… the lady had a cup sitting on the counter with some liquid in it. I orded a coffee, so she took that cup, poured out its contents (whatever was is in), poured coffee in it and served it to me. … I could hardly believe it. When I asked if that cup was clean, she said yes. When I said what did you pour out of it… she said, «oh sorry, I’m wrong»… and she gave me a fresh cup.
WHAT THE HELL?!

The Caprese sandwich is *awesome*:
prefect ingredients and ciabatta bread; better than one would expect at the airport.
The butter croissant is good.

Decided to make a stop here since it was the least overpriced place in the airport. They offered several croissant breakfast sandwiches and a variety of lunch sandwiches.
This should have been an easy transaction. Not so much. The lady in front of me some how confused the older lady making the sandwiches and it went to hell in a hand basket quickly. The older lay making the sandwiches ended up accusing the customer of being confused about her order and for a split second thought about not giving the lady what she actually order. She continued to rant about how she needed to take her lunch. Part of me wanted to tell her to «go take a break». Just maybe we would be relieved of her rudeness and her coworker probably needed a break from her as well.
I decided on a chocolate chip cookie after the transaction that took place in front of me. I didn’t want the headache this early in the morning. Probably the best idea I had all day. For the price that we as consumers pay for things at the airport, we deserve better treatment and consideration. As I type this I bet the lady is still screaming, «I need a break!».

I have never had a cream cheese blueberry croissant, that I can remember, so this review is for the novelty mostly. If I am going to get ripped off by the airport concessions, I might as well get something I can’t usually get. I probably would have tried a sandwich too if I had been hungry; it all reminds me slightly more of France than most of these places, even if it’s an illusion.

I didn’t have time to eat before going to the airport. Once there I found out my flight was delayed so I decided to get a bite to eat.
The sandwiches at Brioche Doree looked really good, so I decided to stop in. I ordered the turkey and brie with apples sandwich. It was okay, but decidedly not as good as it looked.

This was another suggestion I made when San Jose airport was soliciting new tenants for their restaurants and cafes. After returning from Paris and having fallen in love with Brioche Doree I wanted to see it at SJC airport as I felt it would add to the diverse offerings at SJC.
When I went there on my last trip I had a Chocolate Croissant with coffee and it was exactly how I remembered it in Paris. I wanted to try their sandwiches but it was too early in the morning. I will get a sandwich here on my upcoming trip for the flight. The staff here are friendly and the seating is comfortable.
A bit of Paris here in California beats the normal Mc Donalds that you see at airports throughout the world.

I had the Tuscan and it was good. Choices are limited, but you’re at the airport so sometimes you have to suck it up.