Top 8: Croissants put to the taste test

For this survey, I was keen to see what some new bakeries and supermarkets were doing to add to our options.

We tasted plain croissants to see how they behaved adding some flavoursome additions of our own for a second tasting.

A LUXURIOUS inheritance from France, croissants can remind us of past holidays. With a decent cup of coffee we can recreate that start to the day, sitting outside in the autumn sun, swapping French pink bougainvillea for Irish autumnal russet leaves to provide the backdrop to our WhatsApp messages.

It’s a calorific treat, made from over half the amount of butter to flour, with yeast, sugar and salt. Our last croissant survey five years ago had a great collection from Arbutus, ABC, Pana, and Hassetts.