La Mie de Pain - Manosque

What we love about this chain is that the staff don't have to handle money during the transaction so there is no cross contamination with your baked goods. We have mostly found this place very good. On the last day of our visit though, we were sold a stale baguette and the strawberry flavoured eclairs we ordered with it, were gross...very artificial tasting. The chocolate eclairs are good, as are the cakes. We thought the egg custard tart was off putting because of the thick skin on top. The burgers we had one time, came way underdone but the pizzas are scrumptious, especially hot out of the oven. I think it depends who you get behind the counter. We had a nice girl who always brought out the freshest and hottest croissants to us from the back. The person that gave us stale bread was someone new whom we hadn't seen before. All of the cakes look so lovely and if we had the time we would have eventually sampled them all. I think it beats your typical village boulangerie/pattiserie hands down. The coffee is rather poor, I thought.

Came out from L'Occitane's factory tour and was looking for a place for a quick lunch before we head to the west coast_It hits the spot.