La Dolceria Soler & Chocolate Croissants

La Dolceria Soler, or simply La Soler, is a locally-owned bakery in El Vendrell. It has provided the town with pastries, cakes, savories and sweets since 1940.

La Dolceria Soler

mmm... fresh pastries

There are many favorable things that I could write about this bakery but the most important has to be about their chocolate croissants. I have tried many a chocolate croissant in my short life and believe me, once you eat a chocolate croissant from La Soler, you will have a difficult time finding the same level of satisfaction from other chocolate croissants.

What can be so difficult about making a delicious chocolate croissant? Or what can be so different about their chocolate croissants that it deserves a post, in and of itself?

These croissants are made with real, pure chocolate. The chocolate is soft and smooth. Inside, you don't just get a hard little bar of chocolate or chocolate cream, rather there is this perfect balance of softness and firmness, of quantity that makes every bite crave-worthy. As you can see, the ends of each side are dipped in this same pure chocolate which just add to its edibility. Finally, the pastry dough itself is not too buttery (and hence, oily) so you don't feel weighted down afterwards. It also isn't so thin that when you take a bite, it has completed diminished in size and volume. Yum!

I am pretty sure everything they have is made par excellence; their standards are high (just taste for yourself). I also tried this almond, orange sweet glazed pretzel-shaped (not pretzel bread) pastry and was equally satisfied (and surprised I liked it since it was made with orange).

They don't have a website, but you can visit their Facebook page.