Saint Etoile Bakery

[bonobo]

My favorite bread is at Saint Etoile, the Japanese-woend French bakery.  The baguettes and batards are really quite good, and the honolulu bread is good, too.

I usually go the the one at the Mall Bang Khae, and I read elsewhere on this forum that there is one at Siam Paragon.  Are there any other locations?  I want to make subs for my plane trip Monday, and I will be more to the eastern side of Bangkok on Sunday, and I would prefer to stop somewhere there rather than going back to Bang Khae.

[onethailand]

Emporium has one as well.

But if you see a Yamazaki shop elsewhere, it's the same - a slightly different selection of products but I think the breads will be mostly the same.

[davyboy]

Emporium has one as well.

But if you see a Yamazaki shop elsewhere, it's the same - a slightly different selection of products but I think the breads will be mostly the same.

I find Yamazaki bread as good as any bread here, but why do they have to cut the slices so thick???

[kerr17]

I love bakery at Saint Etoile myself.

Bread is very good as well as soft cheese cake.

There is one at Central Rama 3

[Penangkaki]

There is one at The Mall Ngamwongwan, ground floor.

[popshirt]

Emporium has one as well.

But if you see a Yamazaki shop elsewhere, it's the same - a slightly different selection of products but I think the breads will be mostly the same.

I find Yamazaki bread as good as any bread here, but why do they have to cut the slices so thick???

It's the thick slices that I like! Just eat one slice instead of two! I like to put a huge slab of Emmatal cheese and raspberry jam between two slices and then toast lightly in butter .............yummmmmm

[bonobo]

I have been to three Yamazakis lately, but none of them had the Honolulu bread (my favorite for sandwiches) nor the batards/baguettes.

Good to know about Central Rama 3, though.  I just passed it yesterday while on my way to the Mall Bang Khae to get bread, so I wish I had known then!

[Remix4]

There is one at Esplanade plus a Yamazaki at Fortune Town Mall

[shows]

Emporium has one as well.

But if you see a Yamazaki shop elsewhere, it's the same - a slightly different selection of products but I think the breads will be mostly the same.

I find Yamazaki bread as good as any bread here, but why do they have to cut the slices so thick???

It's the thick slices that I like! Just eat one slice instead of two! I like to put a huge slab of Emmatal cheese and raspberry jam between two slices and then toast lightly in butter .............yummmmmm

But it's SO THICK you can't put it in a toaster! I have tried to tell them - I get that ';who do you think you are', Thai look. Sometimes I can get the bread uncut - I buy more than usual then. But it is farang bread, not that sweet Thai stuff that you wouldn't feed to ducks. It's too thick for toast and twice as thick as sandwich slices. At least leave some uncut for those who don't think the world's greatest invention was sliced bread!

[ihunnieibee]

The place carries the same bread as Yamazaki but everything costs more.....

I know this thread is kind of old but I've seen the hawaiian bread at Yamazaki - Big C Wongsawang

[beano2274]

Yamazaki and Etoile are the same company.

[lazygourmet]

For those who are living in Bang Yai area, they have recently opened an outlet at the ground floor of Index mall.

Not too much of varieties, but they take orders for next day delivery.

[nong38]

I like the St Etoile and use it when in Pattaya, but up here in Nakhon Sawan we dont have them. In Big C we do have the Yamazakis (?) but they dont usually put out any real bread until later on and then its only a round roll or a larger round bread, no sticks. Its expensive for what it is,but, its better than the "spoonful of sugare helps the medicine go down" stuff usually on offer. Big C and Makro sometimes have french sticks but they are better for playing cricket with.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

I could be wrong about this.... but from my perusing...

It seems to me that the St. Etoile shops tend to have a better selection of non-sweet regular breads, sliced and whole loafs (along with all the pastry selections) -- whereas the Yamazaki shops seem to be heavier on the sweets and pastries and lighter on their selections of regular breads.

Perhaps the Yamazaki outlets are playing more toward their local Thai market and its taste for sugar galore, whereas the St. Etoile shops can have a bit broader orientation.

The St. Etoile shop in the basement of Siam Paragon, right down from the Gourmet Market there, seems to always have a good selection of their regular breads. There's also a smaller St. Etoile shop in the basement of Terminal 21 next to its market, but their availability of regular breads seems to be very hit and miss -- sometimes they have, sometimes their bread shelves are empty.

[kblaze]

Gateway mall at bts ekkamai has a saint etoile (smaller one) as well. My favorite is the emporium one, where I like to grab some sweet bread things to bring into the movie with me. The plastic wrapping means one has to time opening the package to coincide with loud parts during the movie so as not to infuriate the masses.