07/10/2026
Bonjour tout le monde,
Vous avez la patate ? 😀
You're feeling great? 😀
We are back for a new week and we have made as usual lots of homemade food for you all made from scratch. At Gourmand café homemade MEANS homemade.
Please note we have updated our opening hours and the works are still on in Sankey Street and have now been extended to end of October 😒). It shouldn't stop you from supporting your unique and only French Boulangerie/Pâtisserie around as you can also takeaway our homemade handcrafted treats 😃
After being stopped during the week for over 4 months, the Bakery side of our business is back, during the week, since Wednesday 9th September, from 10am, so you'll find, as stock lasts, Croissants and Pains au chocolat in the morning for breakfast.
We recommend to pre-order your pastries to guarantee availability as they're very popular and can be sold out quite quick.
Our new opening hours are as follows:
> Tuesday (until October): 12pm to 3pm with Light Bites (no sandwich, no omelette), cakes and drinks ONLY (no pastry).
> Wednesday to Friday: 10am to 3pm for lunch, cakes and drinks.
> Saturday: 10am to 4pm (pastries and breads should be pre-ordered to avoid disappointment).
> Sunday: 10am to 3pm (last food order 2.30pm) wirh Brunch OR Special Sunday Lunch each Sunday from October. Bookings are highly recommended by Fridays 4pm.
For today we have made a lot of homemade sweet and savoury food, treats, special bakes and desserts for you all to suit the weather and to please your tastebuds 😃
Always made from scratch in our Café by the 2 of us. Don't ask us if we've made all this (it's a shocking and insulting question 😲🤯), we're both French and it's the name of the business, we love food and respect it 🙂
Just a note if you didn't know but the word "gourmand" has nothing to do with the first literal translation "greedy", au contraire !! 😃 A "Gourmand" enjoys simple well cooked and made food, it's a "bon vivant", a hearty eater or an Epicurean, enjoying good drinks and food. Or the other meaning of "Gourmand" for our Café is mouthwatering, appetising, delightful. Everything we do here for you 😃
Drinkwise, we have a large choice of delightful loose leaf teas, hot chocolates and coffees made with locally roasted coffee beans.
We also have classic soft drinks in stock and we brought back from France more Teisseire syrups (Grenadine, Passion fruit and Peach) to mix with water. And the popular Orangina is back in stock 😃
Next week we'll be launching our Autumnal Drinks Menu, keep your eyes peeled.
If you call in this week, as usual, you'll find in our little piece of France, homemade and handmade cakes and classic treats all made by us on site that you'll find nowhere else except in France 😉
We're definitely cheaper than a flight to France and even if you go to France you're not even sure to get this level of quality and freshness if you don't know where to go 😄
If you don't mind processed food and cakes charged at crazy prices when not handmade and/or homemade, we are probably not for you 🤷♀️🤷♂️
As in our Café, everything is made by us on site and fairly priced. We like good food and we like to share it by baking and cooking everything from scratch. "Épicuriens" (Epicurean) we said in French 😊
For breakfast, French people have sweet food so you can enjoy Croissants, Pains au chocolat, Pain perdu (traditional French toasts), Tartines (1/2 Baguette tradition with jam and butter), Chouquettes (except on Fridays) and many other homemade treats from 9.30am during the week as stock lasts.
Don't hesitate to spread the word as this fact doesn't seem well known 🙂
We are an unique place, when we say you're in France with us, you ARE in France 🙂
Also new breakfast offers started a few months ago so you can feel even more in France 🇫🇷 🥐🥖🧈☕️🧃
***📣 Our pastries are back from Wednesday 9/09 from 10am during the week 📣***
Regarding the Menu, we will be serving our French Onion soup, Quiches (Lorraine or with Brie and tomatoes), Croque Monsieur, Sandwiches with our Baguettes Campaillette, Salads, Fricassée de champignons sur toast (mushrooms cooked with cream and white w**e served on a grilled toast) and Carbonade Flamande Frites (beef slowly cooked with stout, gingerbread, French mustard and served with Northern France fries). There are plenty of options so you'll find your happiness 😀
We also have the Apéro Platter with 1 Baguette, cornichons, French cured meats and French cheeses all imported from France.
We are here until 3pm so come in and say "Bonjour" as we welcome you in our home in a way and it's the best and a really simple way to start a conversation 😀
And same when you leave, no matter how busy we are, you can still thank us and say goodbye. You would never leave your hosts' house without thanking and greeting them, right ? 😁
Everything is prepared on order for freshness and deliciousness. We are not a fast food. We love and respect food.
Lunch is available from 12pm between Wednesday and Saturday in our Café and is sacred. In France, we take our time to enjoy our meal 🙂
🍽 The Evening Bistro Service has been stopped now that we've re-opened in the morning and are in our kitchen making our pastries while you'll still be dreaming in your beds.
You can however enjoy the Bistro dishes such as Confit duck leg, Boeuf Bourguignon, Carbonade Flamande, Sautéed Vegetables with fresh tagliatelle on Sundays. Bookings are recommended to join us on one of the Sundays in October from 11/10. Merci 🙂
If you're after scrumptious and homemade goodies, we have Fruits tarts with berries as it's still their season 🙌, Crème caramel, Coulants au chocolat (melt in the middle chocolate cake), Crème brûlée, Chocolat Liégeois (chocolate cream dessert topped with our homemade vanilla chantilly), Cheesecake vanille et crèmede marrons (vanilla cheesecake topped with chestnut spread), Tarte fine aux pommes (thin apple tart) and the Cake on the stand is a Cake aux myrtilles et amande (Blueberry and almond Cake). We'll have another fruity cake on the stand later this week.
Tartes au citron meringuées and Framboisier roulé (raspberry cake) will be available for the weekend.
🥐 Please note that our traditional French pastries (Croissants pur beurre (full butter) and Pains au chocolat) are homemade on site by us from scratch using specific French flours and butters as you would find in any bakeries in France and they are always really popular so to guarantee availability and avoid disappointment please pre-order.
The pre-order rules have been in place for 3 years now to guarantee the happiness of as many people as possible and make it fair for all our customers so don't hesitate to contact us to pre-order. Merci 🙂
(We know you'd like to keep this super secret to yourself but come on let's share those delicious pastries with others 😁)
Reminder: It takes approximately 30 hours for us to process a batch from scratch hence the pre-ordering rules in place. We are French artisan bakers not retailers opening a cardboard of frozen croissants or ready to sell croissants who won't be able to tell you how it's made and give you jam and butter with it when the French just enjoy their croissants as they are. Thank you.
You can buy our Baguettes Campaillette enjoy at home and you can buy French cheeses and/or charcuteries to go with them. All our goodies are imported from France and some are quality labelled, certified and protected products. We're happy to talk you through any of them.
We also have French artisans jams from Brittany made with quality and seasonal ingredients that will be perfect for your tartines (slice of half a baguette).
You can also pre-order Baguettes tradition if you need many for a party. 24h notice is required. Merci 🙂
For traditional French pastries, breads and food, come see us, the only piece of France in the North West 😎
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You can treat yourself with some Financiers (almond cakes), Chouquettes, Madeleines, Banana, Chocolate chips & pecan Muffins, Chocolate chips and pecan Cookies, Noisettins (hazelnut biscuits) and Blueberry Muffins.
Madeleines will be also be available from Friday as usual. It's the only day where you won't be able to get Chouquettes from us.
We keep repeating that everything we do is homemade onsite just by the 2 of us from scratch but it's just because people seem so unaware of that and surprised when they visit us. After more than 4 years you should know now what to expect when you come in our little piece of France 😁
We don't sell an identity, we are French so everything is like what you would find in France in a classic and traditional Bakery in "Province" (provinces) (we're not Paris and we don't do trendy Instagrammable pastries and cakes).
For an authentic French food experience come see the French 😃 At Gourmand ! we mean what we say we don't play with our communication to sell something 🙂
🗣 Little tip: To check if the business you're in which has a French name or seems to offer French food are really French or do sell real French food, ask the staff how it's been done or check if the boss is French and ask them how they produce those French dishes or cakes and their stories. It's how you differentiate those which sell an identity because it's "sexy" and the authentic French businesses with passionate owners and workers 🙂
For the coming Sundays, we will be mainly serving our new Brunch offers. Please see attached picture or our website.
The next Special Sunday lunches from 11/10 and up to 1/11 will be the Bistro Menu we used to serve in the evening between mid-April and mid-September.
You'll find dishes such as Confit duck leg, or a classic stew such as Boeuf Bourguignon or Poulet forestier (chicken cooked with cream and wild mushrooms) and Sautéed Vegetables with fresh tagliatelle.
Please check the Menu on our website or stories on our social medias.
We now take bookings for those dates.
Please DM us to book by Fridays 4pm.
We only reply to messages and questions in comments that have greetings. There are too many spams and bots out there. Let's chat as human beings 🙂
You can already book a table. Please book by Fridays 4pm.
For traditional French specialities served like if you were in France, come see the French 😃
Same for our Brunch Set Menu, bookings will need to be submitted by Fridays 4pm at the latest to guarantee availability of your preferences and to avoid any disappointment.
Next Brunch will be on Sunday 4/10.
For those who don't know, Sundays at Gourmand! is a chilled moment for Brunch or the Sunday meal we'll have in France with our families that's why you'll find French classic or regional speciality on the menu on that day.
Kind reminder: We ONLY take bookings for the Special options on Sunday. You can walk in from Wednesday to Saturday. And you can walk in on Sundays for breakfast, lunch or a treat but service might be slower if you haven't booked as priority will always be given to our customers who booked the Brunch Set Menu or the Special Sunday Lunch.
And since the beginning there's NO sandwich on Sundays.
📣 This Friday will see the return of our seasonal Friday Special Sandwich introduced in October 2025: the popular Éric & Ramzy's Sandwich!! It is made of a 1/2 baguette, roasted chicken, roasted baby potatoes, peppers and Algerian sauce (spicy sauce).
Please note if you'd like to take this away, you can pre-order yours to ensure it's ready when you call in.
🎂 Finally if you'd like to order a family size cake for a special occasion, please note we need 1 week notice. You can find a selection of our cakes in the highlight sections on our Facebook business page or Instagram account or pop in the Café for a chat.
Next collection will be available from 14/10.
⚠️ We only work with Berries in our cakes and desserts between April and end of October so make the most of it now 😃
Deadline before we stopped using berries is 25/10.
🎊 If a birthday or any other events are coming, think Gourmand café , your unique traditional French Pâtisserie around 🙂 🎉
📝All messages and calls are answered to during our opening hours between Wednesday and Sunday (unless we're on holiday of course).
Merci et à bientôt!!
