Paul

Did not know this was a chain, but loved the pastries and coffee here. It is conveniently located by the train station and several hotels. Saw a lot of locals here too!

A beloved French patisserie chain, Paul has multiple locations in London. It will always have a dear place in my heart as it was one of the first meals I had when I moved to London for a few months last year. The macarons are huge, and I feel like it’s quite authentic as a lot of the people who work there seem to be French. I enjoyed their quiches and tarts. Also, if you register for their card, you get a free croissant/​pan chocolat with a hot drink! I love Paul, and all their pastries look so beautiful!

Pretty pricey but worth it! Had breakfast here and was amazing! Sandwiches and chocolate pastry i can vouch for!

Made our cold day warm and cozy. Loved the coffee Americano and the pastries! See you again Paul :)

Heaven on Earth! I love their goodies and their coffee is fantastic. The place is very french and wooden floor and frames on wall gives it a warm and cosy look. I would suggest their tarts and coffee.

Fresh and delicious bakeries, try to come in the morning for their freshest macarons! Also must try their thick hot chocolate and scrumptious croissants, come in many flavors!

LOVE! It’s got morning perfect or lunch perfect. Breads, coffees, and salads, pastries, and your morning is complete. Everytime I’m in London, this will be my place to go. A bit pricing for me, due to it is the pound, but what is isn’t expensive in London. sometimes you just have to save, oh well, and enjoy it.

Similar purpose as the Pret across the street for a fastfood option. Although, this has added ambiance as South Kensington location has a lot of French speakers. I visited a couple times during my trip as my hotel was nearby.
*Smoked duck salad with tomato soup — no combo opportunity so ended up with two slabs of French bread on the side and probably paid more than needed but sooooo yummy
*Mozzarella/​tomato salad sandwich — Decent, not into lettuce — better with basil, but appreciated pesto, had more bread than filling. Had also wanted to order mushroom soup on the side, but they ran out of it during the lunch rush.

If you are looking for sweets and coffee this is the place! I love their macaroons, croissant, gâteau aux carrot (a little too sweet but still very good), éclair, hot chocolate and the espresso! You can never go wrong with those trust me.
Other thing it’s full of french people so i guess It’s a pretty good damn place haha, french people know about sweets and hey! there’s paul all over paris too :))
This little Paul got a nice terrace too and a second floor if you are looking for a more reserved place.

I remember the first time I went to Paul’s and it felt so fancy and so francais and… oui oui oui!
Now it’s not quite as remarkable: the chain has grown, and there are also many other cafes around, so I don’t make it in as often. However, when I pop up at South Kensington Station Paul’s is just outside the Tube stop, along with Gail’s and some other options. Paul’s line always seems to move a little more quickly, so it has somehow become my go-​to.
Basic wins:
1. fair amount of outside seating
2. small space on the ground floor, but upstairs seating AND a line that moves quickly
3. CHAI LATTES!
4. I really like the baguette-​style bread they use for their sandwiches. The plain salami and gherkin and ham and butter are just really solid staples that… erm…(student alert)…can sit in your bag for part of a morning without other students calling you out for a pungent lunch. It’s the little things!
The big baguette sandwiches (which truly can be two mini-​meals) are something like 3.50 for takeaway which is totes legit in my books.
Unilocal note: I love that so many of the employees are /​speak French. Oui, oui!

Got a chicken baguette here. The bread is good, it’s proper chicken breast, nice tomatoes and lettuce and the amount of mayo is just right. Nothing much else to say really, it’s a good sandwich! Paul needs to come to New York!

We are visiting London & so happy we discovered Paul’s. We had breakfast in the way to our day of touring and were very impressed. Cappuccino’s and Latte along with the hot croissant sandwiches that had ham and cheese and a croque Monsieur such was cheesy creamy goodness. Great service, baked goods are so fresh and we loved it so much that we came back at night to get some take out dessert. Will definitely visit again on our trip!

Paul is a chain found all around London, and a few in Paris too. I fell in love with the salad with goat cheese and sun dried tomatoes at this location. Each location has different salads and sandwiches and some locations have no salads at all. It was the perfect meal to take along with me while sightseeing. They had yummy pastries too. Their prices are different when you sit in vs. take out but it’s worth it to sit down and relax. Only a couple tables at this location, but it looked like most people ordered to go.
It is right across the station for the Gloucester Underground stop.

Cute little bakery chain in the South Kens neighborhood. Stopped in for a coffee & croissant before our day’s expedition of heading up to Wembley was to begin. The pan au chocolat was soft & had just the right amount of chocolate inside. The cappuccino was well made and was the perfect wake me up.
For the vacationer in me, this was the perfect breakfast. However, I could understand the local Londoner may prefer someplace else. Seating is quite crowded inside and it’s definitely more of a take-​away place.
Service was quick & pleasant. And they had it down to an art. Even though there were multiple people helping put our order together & taking our payment is like it was one person doing it all.

Paul is a great bakery chain and was our breakfast stop near our hotel across the street from the Gloucester Underground stop. Thinking back, we could have sought out a traditional heavy english breakfast but we did not know where to go and this was convenient on our trip to the tube. Sure beat the breakfast offered for purchase in our hotel lobby. Boyfriend chose a toasted ham and cheese croissant sandwich and I went for the Montagnard sandwich: brilliantly bright colored fresh Coppa ham, Comte cheese, tomaotoes, olive paste, salad leaves on poppy seed bread. Bread was so yummy and the sandwich combination complemented each other deliciously.
Staff was so nice, courteous and provided customer service with a warm smile. Lovely. Our sandwiches to go for breakfast/​brunch/​lunch sure hit the spot and fueled us for our day of adventure in London.

a french bakery chain convenient for a quick snack, lunch, or breakfast!
–Jambon cru basilic w/​butter, prosciutto, & tomato served on a baguette: the sandwich was not bad for pre-​made & only cost us less than 4 pounds!
–Croissant: it was pretty dissapointing having just come from paris. but i guess that’s setting standards pretty high
funny how i did not see ONE paul in france except in the train station. but they are all over london

Sehr schön. Frühstück in einer seiner schönsten Formen. Hier wünscht man sich noch drei Nasen dazu, um nichts von diesem köstlichen Duft zu verpassen!

The baguettes are light and fluffy. The pastries are delicious. The macaroons are gigantic. As a huge hot chocolate fan, I’m kicking myself for never trying the version from Paul’s from any of the chain locations throughout Europe.
I frequented this particular location while living in South Kensington and, for a chain, I was pretty impressed by the quality of the bread and pastries (even if I did find it a little out of my price range to go to every day). As good as the pastries were, I felt like I could find equally yummy pastries for a cheaper price in London. The bread was really top notch, though!
Also, I recommend dining outside if the weather is good. I enjoyed conversation with friends over a mid-​afternoon snack many a-​time.

I come to Paul almost exclusively for their baguettes as I find their patisserie to be on the sloppy side more often than not. That said, their baguettes are as good as you can find at an (inter)national chain. Crispy, chewy and flavourful, these baguettes are superior to many of the artisanal baguettes coming out of the best bakeries in London. Plus, a petit flut is only 99p.
The staff are always very nice and they manage to handle the huge ques very well. Last night I grabbed a small baguette as they were closing, but as I walked out of the door decided I’d prefer a large — the lady handed me another large baguette on the house. Very seldom does this happen in London!

So I am from Cali, and it was my second day in London and my first time in the UK ever! I’m a huuuge bakery fan, and I am always willing to try any, no matter the origin, taste, style, etc. So when I spotted this one on my random journey around Kensington area (near my hotel) I knew I just had to take a peek! As soon as I walked in, I could smell the fresh baked breads, sweet, succulent cakes and tarts… almost reminded me of this French bakery my boyfriend and I fell in love with when we went to Seattle!
I ordered the pavot pulet sandwich, simply chicken breast, batavia leaves, mustard mayonnaise, tomato, all fitted into a poppy seed baguette-​like bread! It was only £3.85 I believe, which was WELL worth it (considering I wasted a huge amount of pounds the day before on cheap, oily, tourist-​style fish n’ chips). I also had a slice of the Foret Noire… absolutely divine and decadent. Rich (but not overly sweet) chocolate sponge, with a salivating light chocolate cream filled with slices of cherries… all topped with white fluffed cream and showered in rich chocolate shavings. It fell from heaven and into my tummy in a world breaking record of two seconds. I breathed it in and it was gone, leaving me satisfied and wanting more. The best £3.10 I’ve spent in England so far. Thank you England for having AMAZING bakeries!

It’s beyond me… how a macaroon can be so big. Back in america, i’ve never seen anything this big, only little ones. I ordered takeaway for the chocolate macaroon, and they boxed it up all nice and gave me a napkin. It was a little under 3 pounds. It’s a bit cold, but let it sit for a bit, and it’s perfect. So soft… it was pure delight. It wasn’t over powering with sweetness or anything. Definitely different than home. They had quite the amount of customers sitting around eating and ordering.
The cappuccino I tried, (med 2.20) which I added chocolate to it was surprisingly underwhelming, i added a lot of sugar, but it was just so-​so. I’ve had better at other places before. The croissant I had, 1.30 was delicious. Again, it didn’t look that good, considering it has been sitting out in the open for who knows how long, but one bite into it, and I knew this was something that was amazing. It was so light and fluffy, and was gone within 5 mins.
Their hot chocolate is amazing… literally. I’ve had «real» hot chocolate that places are famous for, but i felt they were too. bitter, this is like sweet and feels like real chocolate melted to make hot chocolate! LOVE IT.
Their hot chocolate is different than the paul’s i tried in paris… more sweeter and thicker.