Is the dark one burnt or is that on purpose? …Oh. Oh, I see. I'll have two.
Visit La Quinzaine · Pontcanna
The shop is the destination. — venez, faites le voyage.
La Quinzaine doesn't sell online, doesn't ship, and — honestly — doesn't hand out samples to passers-by. What we do is make, from scratch each morning, for people who've made the small pilgrimage to a cream-walled shop on Pontcanna. The walk is part of the pastry.
CF11 9HS
Pontcanna, Cardiff — a five-minute walk from Sophia Gardens.
Tue – Sat
8am – 4pm, or until the trays run empty.
Rose-gold handle
No sign. Just a hand-chalked fortnight card in the window.
Opening hours · Pontcanna
Five mornings a week, until the trays are empty.
We are a small shop run by a small team — which means the door closes when the pastry goes, not when the clock tells it to. Most days the last few things leave the counter by three; the Saturday loaves are often gone by noon.
The times below are the outer edges. Come earlier if you want the widest choice.
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Monday — closed, resting, ordering flourclosed
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Tuesday — first day of a new fortnight, every other week8am – 4pm
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Wednesday — the quiet one. Élodie's favourite morning.8am – 4pm
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Thursday — canelés come out at 11am8am – 4pm
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Friday — croissants in two rounds: 8am and 10am8am – 4pm
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Saturday — sourdough loaves, viennoiserie, the busiest morning of the week Loaves day8am – 4pm
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Sunday — closed. Walk Bute Park instead.closed
Fortnight cycles begin every other Tuesday — the window card tells you which day to come back.
How the fortnight works →
Finding us in CF11
The quiet end of Pontcanna, not the busy one.
La Quinzaine,Pontcanna,
Cardiff CF11 9HS
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By foot from the city centre
Twenty-two minutes from Cardiff Central across Bute Park. Cross the Cae Delyn footbridge, carry on through the trees, and the shop is three streets in on your right.
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By bike
The Taff Trail passes within two minutes of the door. There's a cast-iron rail outside and a second one opposite — both are fine to lock to, the second one is more polite on a Saturday.
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By bus or train
Cathedral Road stops (service 25) are a four-minute walk. Ninian Park station is ten minutes on foot. We are comfortably inside the Cardiff city zone.
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By car
On-street permit parking Monday to Saturday until 10am, free thereafter. If you reach Sophia Gardens you've gone one street too far — loop back through Llandaff Road.
Illustrative — not to scale. Use your phone's map for turn-by-turn, or write and we'll send walking directions from wherever you're coming from.
What you'll find inside
A cream room, a wooden counter, a small number of very good things. la petite liste
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Tue – Sat
A fortnightly pastry counter — seven or eight items
The dark croissant and the kouign-amann are always there. Everything else changes on a rolling two-week cycle written in pencil on a card in the window.
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Saturday, 8am
Saturday loaves — three kinds, until they're gone
Country, seeded rye, and the oat-porridge miche — each cold-fermented for thirty-six hours with Welsh flour and Halen Môn sea salt. Bring a tote; they're too warm for a paper bag.
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all opening hours
Filter coffee & a small tea list
Welsh-roasted by Coaltown; a single batch-brew at any given time. Cup or paper; no matcha, no syrups, no third menu. It's the coffee that belongs with the pastry.
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house rule
Two stools by the window
First-come, first-eaten. A regulars' rule: if someone else needs the seat more than you do, give it up gracefully and take the pastry out into the garden.
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restocked Tue
A short shelf of things we love
Pembrokeshire butter by the half-pound, Halen Môn salt, jars of Llancarfan honey, a few cookbooks by friends. Not a gift shop — a very small pantry.
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by appointment
Wedding-cake conversations — Tuesday mornings only
By appointment. Six flavour pairings, a sketch pad, and two hours of unhurried time over coffee. Write to Élodie a few weeks ahead.
No wifi, on purpose. The chairs are for eating, the counter is for watching.
See what's on the counter today →
Overheard at the counter
Lines we've genuinely heard, written down by the till.
I told my husband I was popping out for bread. That was forty minutes ago. Please don't tell him about the canelés.
My daughter says this is the best thing I've ever made her. I didn't make it. You did. I'm bringing the credit home anyway.
We drove in from Swansea and you've sold out of rhubarb tart. I'm not upset. I'm going to pretend I'm not upset.
I don't even like pistachio and I'm here for the third week running. Something has gone wrong with my principles.
I work up the road. I tell everyone I have a short commute. I'm only honest about why.
Get in touch
Write, or better — walk in.
For anything but wedding cakes, walking in is the best way to reach us. If that isn't possible, Élodie reads every note herself — usually on a Tuesday afternoon — and writes back within the week.
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Where to find us
Pontcanna,
Cardiff CF11 9HS Five minutes from Sophia Gardens. No shop sign — look for the rose-gold handle. -
When we're open
Tuesday – Saturday, 8am – 4pm Closed Sunday and Monday. Oven on at 6am, door open at 8.
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Wedding cakes
Four commissions a month. For enquiries, use the wedding-cake form — it gives Élodie the bones she needs.