La Patisserie

You're walking down Ecclesall Road in Sharrow and the smell hits you first—butter, vanilla, something unmistakably fresh from the oven. La Patisserie isn't trying to be anything other than what it is: a proper French-style café where people actually queue for croissants that taste like they should. The space itself is unpretentious, the kind of place where regulars have their standing orders and newcomers quickly become regulars. With a 4.7 rating from nearly 200 reviews, folk clearly aren't coming for the Instagram aesthetic.