We have been spoilt over the last eight or nine years having the wonderful Patisserie Pascal just up the road. Pascal retired a few months ago and new owners took over, but they have not managed to continue the success. They closed a few days ago, and the shop will re-open as a different sort of retailer. Good luck to the new venture.
Now twice a victim of the referendum I suspect. Maybe for different reasons but I know many non UK EU itizens preparing to move on in the foreseeable future and about some who left already.
That’s so sad. I’ll really miss having a patisserie in town.
I agree. However, the new owners were on a hiding to nothing. Pascal’s products were very special and I always felt that using his name without his pastries was a very risky strategy. It is a shame because the new owners worked hard at what they did.
It is a shame to loose an independent retailer, but the drop in quality when the new owner took over was huge.
I don’t blame them, as Pascal made some amazing stuff. Easily the best I’ve had outside of France. When they sold, I was genuinely upset that I’d never get to have another of his ham and cheese croissants.
I have heard rumours that it will continue to a food related retailer so that could be interesting.
Well maybe we should have supported the new owners more and they would have had chance to modify their products, if necessary.
I personally thought their cakes etc were still very good and, at the very least, superior to anything else on offer in the town. I used to pop in for a coffee and snack often, and continued to shop there. If we want to keep the independent retailers we have to give them our custom.
I am sad that this shop has closed. They were very nice people and worked hard.
Let me guess its will either be a coffee shop, a Turkish barber or an estate agents. Just what Abingdon needs
Chris John – Those premises were home for many years to a ladies hair salon pre-dating many of the present rash of hairdressers in Abingdon.
Badger you are right it’s where the infamous Mr Lee started out.
Just rereading my post led me to muse over what the name for a group of Hairdressers would be… a bunch… a gathering… a beehive… a Seville? In our case I guess it’s just ‘an annoyance of barbers’.
Well, for Turkish barbers would it be a “delight”?
Generally, a “snip”?