Walking into Sandyan, Salon du Thé et Gourmandises, felt like paradise for someone who wants to open their own little tea room.
At the end of Rue Alsace Lorraine sits this little gem, amongst other cafés and restaurants. The front window was adorned with chocolate eggs and other Easter goodies. Walking through the door you feel like you’re floating, the walls are painted a pale blue grey, feeling like the sky. Like works of art their goodies are displayed in glass boxes in the centre of the shop, which seem to be floating too, with each box containing a different pastry in various flavours.
It’s a feast for the eyes, and you can see the chef’s love of pastry coming through. Sandyan is the creation of Yannick Delpech, a 2 Michelin star chef who started his career in patisserie. Once a pastry chef, always a pastry chef.
There’s a little bit of everything from éclairs…
…to mile feuille…
…to tarts…
… and the chefs own creations…
So off we went upstairs to have tea and cakes. The modern feel continues with hard wood floors and all white décor. The only colour being a few pictures on the wall of the chefs creations and a few fresh flowers. We chose a table by the window as it was such a beautiful day. I was a bit surprised that we were the only ones there… but it gave us the chance to be bloggers and take loads of photos. Choosing what kind of tea we wanted was the easy bit, we both went for a fragrant white tea, choosing our cake was a bit more difficult. We wanted to try everything. In the end we both had a Thé Gourmand, which included tea and a selection of goodies. We didn’t realise this at the time so we ordered some patisserie too. Claire chose a coffee, white chocolate and praline tart and I settled on the Suzette Éclair after the waiters recommendation. We didn’t wait too long to get our tea, and the sweets weren’t too far behind either. We waited patiently for our tea to brew while drooling over everything and trying to decide what we would tackle first.
The selection of sweets consisted of a Macaron, mine raspberry and Claire’s pistachio, a brownie, coffee tart and apple tart tatin. 
The macaron was ok, honestly we’ve had better. The brownie was good, as was the tart tatin. The coffee tart was too intense for me so Claire swapped her brownie for mine. This is where the waiter would have come in handy. Had we known we ordered mini cakes, Claire’s choice of patisserie might have been different. Even though she really enjoyed the tart it was too much coffee by the end. My éclair was surprisingly good. An éclair filled with vanilla crème pat and orange segments cooked in spices topped with cream. I was not entirely convinced by the spices when the dish was described but it was surprisingly very good.
If we hadn’t gorged on so many sweets we probably would have taken some more home they were so good even though they were a bit expensive.
Quick ratings
Atmosphere 4/5
Food 4/5
Service 4/5
~Dominique~
Heavenly Kitchen 