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Bisous Bisous Pâtisserie loves February for two reasons: birthday celebrations and Valentine’s Day. No wonder, since their name means “kiss, kiss” or “lots of love” in French. The West Village patisserie shines in bringing joy through divine French pastries and sweets throughout their favorite month.
Bisous celebrates its sixth birthday on Feb. 6, and offers customers one free birthday macaron and freshly brewed coffee from Noble Coyote Coffee Roasters with any purchase. Birthday cruffins, lovingly decorated with sprinkles and confetti, are also available for purchase all month long.
February’s anthem is “red, pink, and everything sweet” all month long. Guests can expect red and pink cookies shaped like hearts, lips, and XO’s. Passion fruit tarts, white chocolate strawberry cream puffs, and heart-shaped brownies are also available.
“I really just wanted to do something that’s not the same old heart-shaped cuties,” says Bisous owner and chef Andrea Meyer. “It still has a cute aesthetic. I wanted something with a little more elevated flavor this year. I really want to do more flavor combinations. I want the staff to think that way.”
It’s a beauty of a thing, whether you get a 10-inch cake ($109) or a 4-inch ($45), which Meyer notes is basically a generous single serving. Layers of chocolate cake bring together a smooth chocolate buttercream and a gentle passion fruit curd. Because it’s Bisous, macarons top the cake, chocolate and passion fruit in flavor.
“Awful treatment. We walked in at 3 pm on a Friday, the doors were open so we assumed it was open. The gentlemen who appeared to be a server with long hair came in and very rudely told us that it was closed and continued to wave at us out the door like we had committed some sort of crime. Lock your doors if you re closed.” Jordan S., Yelp Review for Ten Bells Tavern, 11/6/2020 We all have good days and bad days, times when we re not at our gleeful best, either as an individual or a business. The worst are misinterpreted moments that lead to hurt feelings. Incidentally, restaurants and bars have the unique luxury of having all these moments, good and bad, memorialized through online reviews.