La Provence

This place is closed. New Colombian bakery … That’s a pity!

Excellence is the best words to describe this restaurant, from the lattes to the croissants, eggs, desserts
You can also sit outside with your doggie if you want

When I need to go back and feel a little bit of Paris… Delicious … Not cheap. But worth it. Croquet Madame is amazing

Quaint little meet-​up spot. Love the outdoor seating (not much of it in Florida). Nice variety of fresh pastries, but the salted caramel macaroons were delectable. Staff was very friendly and polite.

Small place, decent amount of parking in the plaza. Food is fresh & desserts look & are really good. Prices are reasonable I guess. Wrap/​Sandwich, bag of chips & can of pop for $ 10 bucks. Not serving large portions, but we probably don’t need all that food anyway. They have good salads too. They have opened up several of these restaurants all over dade county over the past couple years. I would give this place 3.5 if I could, but not a 4. Its steady, but not really exciting.
Good lunch place or if you need a snack, but not really for dinner.

Great customer service, but that’s about the only plus here. I ordered a café mocha and got what seemed like a hot chocolate. My friend’s cappuccino was subpar. We also had an eggs Benedict– the hollandaise was almost neon yellow and who the heck puts balsamic vinegar on a Benedict? My friend had the ham and cheese croissant– when it arrived it had been microwaved within an inch of its life and was generally inedible.
Perhaps lunches or dinners are better here, but judging by this lackluster breakfast visit, I won’t be back.

I have been to the location in Downtown and this location is very consistent. THE BEST COBB SALAD I EVER HAD!!! Fresh quality ingredients, fair prices, lots of selections
Highly recommend!

This place offers great selection in the menu
Too Bad the service is so Slow!!! and
They never have Macarons available.

They get 2 stars for their freshly squeezed orange juice. Can’t think of anything else to praise them on. Who in the the world puts balsamic vinegar on Eggs Benedict? And the sauce itself was awful. Their pastries were also dry and old. Not fresh at all. Won’t be going back.

So slow. 20 minutes for 2 lattes. Another 5 minutes before we received breakfast for one of us. Who knows when my friend’s breakfast will arrive. If you have no plans to do anything else, this place will work. Otherwise, stay away.

Love this place. The coffee is the reason I go. Also try the Salmon Eggs Benedict! I took my boyfriend here for his birthday breakfast because he loves it that much. I just wish they were a little more consistent. The second time we went the dish was missing some ingredients and he plate seemed empty.

Up until my last visit I have always had a good experience at this café and have been a regular since it opened. However after my last visit we will not be returning.
To put it simply the customer service is appalling. My wife after eating two thirds of her sandwich found a short black hair stuck on the melted cheese of her sandwich. Rather than make a large scene I took the sandwich to the counter and quietly pulled the server to the side to point this out. He took the sandwich off to the kitchen and implied he would have the chef make another. However as my wife, not surprisingly, had lost her appetite I advised him that we didn’t want another and that he should just refund the cost of that sandwich. Having spent around $ 55 for three of us I assumed that rebating a $ 9 sandwich was a reasonable request. This apparently however was not as simple a solution as I had thought. Another server then came to the counter and told me they were not able to give me a refund because the manager was not present and they didn’t know how to do the rebate. No problem I advised the server just to call the manager and have them walk her through the process. Again a reasonable request in my mind but apparently not in the minds of the servers. I was advised that I could call the manager on Monday (we were having Sunday brunch) or even more conveniently I could come back back to the café at another time to take up my complaint. Unfortunately by this stage in the saga I was more than a little annoyed. After insisting on having the server call her manager, which for some unknown reason, she was unable or unwilling to do we were advised by the server that the hair could be one of ours (because the chef apparently had red hair and the hair was black) and that there was only two mouthfuls of the sandwich left. Basically implying that in her mind we had placed the hair on the sandwich after eating most of it in an attempt to get a free meal. The fact that I was only asking her for a rebate of my wife’s sandwich was apparently lost on her and the fact that if the hair has been seen on the first bite my wife would have not eaten any of the sandwich. After further back and forth where our server showed even more «exemplary» customer service she magically remembered how rebate a bill and our $ 9 sandwich was rebated.
Not surprisingly we left exceedingly annoyed and vowed never to come back. With this being part of a chain I would have assumed there was some basic training on how to deal with customer complaints but evidently not. Effectively accusing your customers of placing hair on food to get a free meal is beyond comprehension.
In summary be very wary of this café especially on Sundays when there is no manager present. Food is ok but don’t expect anything other than sheer contempt from you servers.

Decent food… Awful service today, simply awful.
I have been there other times and was acceptable but Service is deteriorating by day, very, very slow .
They are rude and careless and take forever to bring you incomplete food

Terrible experience. ordered coffee and did not get it. The cup of tea was so hot we could not touch it and after ten/​fifteen minutes we could not handle it any more and had to throw it. Two poached eggs came without bread, when asked where was the bread they said we did not ask for it. TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE a complete lack of professional service.

After about 6 visits here at various times of day and days of the week I feel I can strongly stand behind these details…
The food is fantastic and while a bit more expensive than average for the serving size the detail and attention that goes into each dish makes it worthwhile. The desserts are even better. The display of single serving sweets makes my mouth water and the danish and other pastries are always fresh and wonderful. The coffee is always fresh and strong and they offer most major drink types.
The problem here is that the service is extremely slow and the attitude of those that work there is cold and indifferent, almost to the point of being rude. This is what you face if you don’t speak Spanish. The times I’ve visited with a Spanish speaker we were met with smiles and much more prompt service (from the exact same employees).
All that being said, as long as you are not in a hurry the food more than makes up for any other issues.

Nice place. Came here for breakfast. My daughter and I split an Egg Wrap and Ham Croissant dishes. A+ for wrap, D+ for the croissant! Also, I think they can improve on the service too.

Ive eaten here three times, spent at least $ 45 on breakfast. Each subsequent time thinking it will be better than the last.
Ive eaten food from all around the world fm Europe to Asia to in between and have lived in many countries: the food that I ordered was never good and for the prices charged, it should be at the very least, SEASONED.
I ordered the tomato and mozz quiche today and tasted no tomato, how is this possible?
The only item i ordered that tasted well consistently was the orange juice, fresh squeezed but how hard is that ! Oh and the fruit tart. I do not like wasting money.

The food and bakery items are fresh and delicious! We’ve come here several times and always leave satisfied with the service provided and quality of the food. The staff is very accommodating. Once my hubby’s breakfast took longer than usual and they apologized and gave us complimentary cappuccinos. They value their customers and not many businesses can say the same. The food is a bit pricey but well worth it. Highly recommended!

La Provence is a French café with multiple locations all over Miami. This location is in a strip mall on 41^st street in Doral — it’s really nice for Doral residents to have a yummy bakery/​café so close to home! Although it is a bit pricey (~$ 9 for a sandwich, hence the 3 stars), the portions are large enough that it doesn’t make me cringe. You get the same amount of food for the same price that you would at Panera Bread, and it’s a nice change for regular Panera-​goers (guilty as charged).
As far as food goes, I’ve tried the chicken & avocado sandwich (super super delicious, 5 stars!). Half of this sandwich is enough to stuff you. The ingredients are so fresh, it just makes you happy to be eating! I’ve also tried the croque madame — a croque monsieur topped with an fried egg. It was delicious but even ½ of the sandwich was wayyyy too heavy for me to eat. This would be nice to share amongst a few people.
I’ve tried a few other sandwiches and pastries from there but don’t remember the names. They’ve all been delicious (some more than others), and I plan on returning here when I get a hankering for French café food.
There’s plenty of indoor and outdoor seating, and it’s a pretty popular place at lunchtime.

I’ve only tried the cakes and sweet goods here before, and based on taste I probably would have given it 4 stars when compared to other bakeries in the area. The price is what made me unable to give this place a higher rating.
Depending on what time of the day you go, the cakes might not be super fresh, but to me they were acceptable. Almost every time I bought them home, refrigerated them, and ate them little by little over a few days. They tasted fine and didn’t spoil.
There’s also a decent amount of variety for people with different tastes. However, the desserts are not authentic French desserts, and unfortunately the times I went, they did not make the famous French coffee éclair.
It’s a nice place to try out or to celebrate a birthday with various little cakes.