Hobsons Patisseries

You'll find yourself on Henley Street—that proper medieval stretch near the Shakespeare properties—and suddenly there's the smell of butter and almonds pulling you through the door. Hobsons does what British patisseries should do but rarely manage: they treat French pastry technique like it actually matters. The croissants have real lamination, the éclairs aren't pretentious nonsense, and their cakes look like someone who trained properly made them, not Instagram.