La Boite

As you type 'macaron' on Yelp, one of the places you see is La Boite. I just find it fasinating that this is not a food truck, it's a shipping cargo that is transformed into a cafe. Now, mind you, as cargo unit goes, this is a very small one. And you can see, for them to close their doors, they can easily slide the side over. It's all very unusual and neat to me.

I was mainly lured here by their almond horn on their website. It looked to be a real pastry chef's handy work to make those beautiful horns. Thinking: their macarons cannot go wrong. Well...

The owner lady, Victoria wasn't as friendly to newcomers as one would hope a small business owner would be. She was almost annoyed when we asked what flavors of macarons they have to offer that day. They did have a few out of the norm flavors such as the orange rose (pictured) or just orange, that's not a usually offered flavor. They charge $1.75 each, and 3 for $4.95.

While everything looked 'right' for a macaron, and pretty, since they're doing a swirl here. They have been sitting out for days and pretty dried up. It took one bite and everything fell apart. So they had let it sit for too long instead of rotating them. We also got a salted caramel, and it was a cool day in Austin, but by the time it reached the final destinationg the filling had already melted. While that is not an unusual problem, most of the macaron's meltage usually don't melt that easily either. So I would say a no-go for me.

La Boite Cafe
1700 South Lamar Boulevard,
Austin, TX 78704
(512) 377-6198
http://laboitecafe.com/