One is La Pâtisserie Française on Bardstown Road. The French pastry shop is owned and operated by Charles Reed, whom I last spoke to in 2022 about his downtown restaurant, Melba’s Culinary Canvas.
Over a decade ago, the inventor of the Cronut, French baker Dominique Ansel achieved worldwide fame for a pastry that’s achieved immortality of sorts — well before the age of virality.