La Vanille Pastry @ Hutton Lane

La Vanilla is a small pastry place for all things sweet and cute. It's located along Hutton Lane. And there's a reason why Hutton lane is called a lane and not a road. Hutton lane is super narrow what with parking on both sides of the road. Thus, parking in this area is super super crazy!! Hate the parking. Unfortunately, this lovely shop is situated here. And it was in April that we went to pay them a visit...

 As I've said before, La Vanille seem to have everything sweet, cutesy, and pastel... It reminds me very much of a country home but without roses... I love their tiffany blue theme colour with the little bunny...

They sell cakes, cupcakes, biscuits, macaroons and also serve light lunches too! It's a very cozy  affair when it comes to La Vanille.

Like stated in their own webpage, La Vanille stands for The Vanilla in French as the owner herself loves vanilla.

More menu items were written on an overhead board above the counter. I couldn't read all and just ordered what I could see over their display counter. It seems that they also sell lunch and coffee, which was what I found out later... having read through the boards overhead.

Menu on a black board...

They also cater for weddings, and functions... their famous cupcake tier... sits in the display window as you enter their shop...

 Enough of the simple yet effective décor... Now it's down to their food.
I only went there after lunch, so I was mainly having desserts...
We ordered the blue berry cheese cake RM8.90

This was a really solid dense slice of cheese cake. It was superbly cheesy! The jam on top was abit scarce, Would have loved to have more jam... But the body of the cake, with the dense cheese, was really worth every penny! :)
The base was made of I think it was oreo biscuits... nice!

We next ordered macaroons.. which seem to be an on-going trend these days...
They were selling for RM4 per piece and RM11 for 3 pieces.

The flavours that were left that day was only 4 types: green tea, hazelnut, pandan and jasmine
Too bad they didn't have the other flavours...
Anyway, I chose all except for pandan.

As it turns out, I liked the hazelnut one! No surprise there.. hehe
But the jasmine flavoured one was a real surprise! The filling was chocolate , so that made it even better than the hazelnut.

42 La boheme, Penang

I've been wanting to try out the pasteries at this cafe for a long, long time. Things always got in the way. Either I was too busy or they had sold-out whatever they were selling and closed before I could buy any or it was because a construction crane fell in the path of the one-way road and blocked all traffic from passing-by Sri Bahari road altogether. Yes, a crane really crashed!

Anyway, this morning after mass, I decided to give it one more shot. So, i drove all the way down to Sri Bahari road and to my delight, it was open. Seems like I was meant to go there today. I think i was their first customer of the day!

The counter seemed to be stocked with cakes, pasteries and yummy looking danish-like pastry. Well, it's suppose to be a French pastry shop cum cafe. And the French man, i presume was the chef, was with his, (assuming again) chinese wife, relaxing on the chairs beside the counter.

And their menu was written on 3 pieces of black board hung on the wall beside the counter. Unfortunately, all of it was in French with no translations. I had to ask the lady serving me what everything meant.

And i spotted their black cat :) named Felix

So today, I bought 3 things which totalled up to RM32

One was the tarte aux noix (walnut tart) which cost me RM10 per slice


uncooked blue berry cheese cake (right)
walnut tart (left)



The other was an uncooked blueberry cheesecake...RM14 per slice

and lastly, the yummy looking danish-like pastry called oranais RM8

Out of the three, the best to me was the oranais! Crunchy exterior, with soft, creamy-custordy center! Oh, and the peach tasted sweet & juicy... Perfect! Despite the price, I think they offer good quality food :)

I expected the walnut tart to be super sweet seeing the caremel coating in the tart. Surprisingly, the walnuts were slightly bitter ( i think they left the walnut skin on) which neutralised the sweetness of the caremel.

The Blue berry cheese cake was really fresh.

Still, the best for me was, though the cheapest of the lot - Oranais

You can check this place out for yourself at
42, Jalan Sri Bahari
10050 Penang

 Tue-Sun: 10am-6pm

It's along the same road as The Ship Restaurant

They have their own website here