Flying With Jerome

This is an amazing French Restaurant. We went for breakfast..I had the bacon, egg, cheese croissant. It came with fruit. I couldn't finish it. The owners are a husband wife couple. She's the chef and he's manager/waiter. Reasonable prices and delicious food. This is hidden in a little (old) shopping plaza. Inside is clean and bright.The other restaurants in the plaza are Olga's (authentic old-time diner with great breakfasts), and a donut shop that makes wonderful donuts and serves chinese food the rest of the day!

Crowded today, if it were a bar at around 1:30-2:00 am I'd think I hit the jackpot! Women outnumbering men about 12 to 1! Noisy, but I'd go home lucky for sure!

This restaurant is a new ownership, Chef/Chez David!! We love this French Bakery so much we went twice already. Everything is great! Almond croissants are yummy and crispy. All deserts looks good. I had a sandwich and it was excellent! Chibata bread is just right. My husband had a crepe with real French flies. Very highly recommend.

WowWe drive back and forth a few times before we found this place on the corner of Nursery and Belcher under the black awning. Super nice folks will serve you delightful French goodies while you watch French pastries being cooked on the telly - enjoy the time the service is paced to enjoy the food and company.We enjoyed a croissant - flaky buttery and amazing. Next up, I had a savory veggie crepe with ham, mom enjoyed a prosciutto and Brie sandwich.My crepe was light absolutely delicious- the vegetables and cheese were perfection. Half is packaged to add a Gordon Ramsey homemade scrambled egg and viola, breakfast #2Mimosas and pastries packed to goI am quite pleased with our choiceThank you YelpOh and this is review #500Wowowowowowow!!!!SYOY

It looks like Jerome sold his business. They have most of the same items on the menu, but it's just not the same as it was. I'm not sure if Jerome instructed them on his techniques or if he only gave the recipes. I assume the latter which is unfortunate.The food is alright, but of course we miss Jerome. The croque monsier looked like it may have been cooked in a toaster over rather than pan fried. The frittata wasn't very fluffy. We had to remind them a few times to bring our drinks.The redeeming qualities are the cappuccino was delicious and the pastries are still wonderful.

Another visit to our favorite hidden gem. Crusty flaky croissants. Expertly prepared eggs. Fresh ingredients all the way around. It always amazes me that this place isn't packed. Shhhhh. Let's just keep it our little secret.

It's been awhile since last we flew with Jerome. Quite frankly it'll be the last time we do too, especially since "Jérôme lui-même" flew the coop! The French, meanwhile, call French toast "pain perdù," or lost bread. That's the perfect metaphor for the service and the sad excuse of a panini sandwich we decided to split: totally lost! First: a whole crew of new faces in there aside from Jerome's wife/sister/whatever she is. Another French man along with at least three other people running around performing table service by committee. None of 'em seemed to have a grasp of what they're doing either! Perdù!One of 'em was a young Hispanic fellow who had nary a clue as to the finer points of service. He comes along to tak our order: two cups of French onion soup and their "ciabatta bread sandwich," split between the two of us (ie extra plate). Then he asks if we want any pastries or dessert items. Did I ask for any? No...Meantime as the table of four next to us was getting their food, the order was totally messed up and didn't even come close to making it outta the kitchen together. When the stuff finally came out, our dear fellow just hands it off directly to the customers and then directly hands him a fork. The rest of the committee just runs around the table a few different times with much the same inept service gaffes. Tres perdù!So another of the committee walks by and refills our water. We casually ask where our soup is. It had been nearly 15 minutes, and per usual soup normally would come out first. So maybe five minutes AFTER she said she'd check, out comes our boy with said pôtage. He doesn't say a single word and just plops 'em down on the table...no presentation, no nothing. Off he went.Well, the soup is nowhere near as delicious as it used to be. Broth was weaker and nowhere near as earthily rich as it normally is. It even had a slightly astringent taste to it. Not bad, but nowhere near how Jerome usually makes/made it. Tant perdù!Last straw was the so called ciabatta sandwich, which came along a few minutes later. Fresh mutz, prosciutto pesto, and sliced tomato pressed on a ciabatta roll. $11.95 for one lousy slice of prosciutto and two bland slices of tomato with some bland, blah, nondescript mozzarella?! There was not even a hint of pesto on the sorry excuse for bread either. I got no basil flavor whatsoever! When I looked at the bread itself, I saw not even ANY green whatever. Pesto is green, of course. Apparently the sandwich maker is kinda in the green side too if he can't read the damn menu! Beyond that, the ciabatta roll itself was doughy, soft, nearly stale and not a bit of crusty crunch! The sandwich as a whole not well pressed or put together very well at all. The roll smelled of whatever oil they coat the press with too. Quite frankly, I felt cheated to put it quite politely. Accompaniment of their homemade shoestring fries was at least good. Did I mention that the sandwich was brought out by the French guy? We also had to ask him for the second plate THREE times before he understood what we meant (and twice for ketchup). Remember we were splitting the sandwich?! Apparently that bit of information got "perdù aussi," i.e. lost as well.Quite frankly our dear garçon "non-Jérôme" should be "honteux de lui-même" (ashamed of himself) for putting out and allowing that level of food as well as service. If he needs the extra help these days, then perhaps he should find someone who knows "qu'est-ce qu'ils foutent," or WTF they're doing. One other oddball gaff is the fact that two painters were replastering and repainting the entrance overhang of non-Jerome's "petit cafe/pâtisserie." Drop cloths, scaffold, rollers and assorted crap jostling with people trying to get in, or better yet: out! Whose bonehead idea was it to do that during brunch hours on a Saturday?! If that decision was made by "non-Jèrôme," then I'd say the new boss is the most "perdù" of 'em all. If you really think this place is worthwhile anymore, then that's fine. However after all those gaffes and the lesser quality of food, my own words of advice to anyone contemplating "flying with Jerome," or whoever the hell is running the place these days, is: "Tant pis!" For those here who don't understand French, that means "Never mind."

What a treat without have to travel outside of Clearwater to enjoy delicious pastries and french food when dining at Flying with Jerome!!Flying with Jerome serving breakfast, brunch and light lunch selections; pastries and cakes can be order for dine in or take out. My friends and I have visited the cafe multiple times - the staff and quality of food and drinks are on point. My favorites are the egg Benedicts, hot chocolate, all the sweets #DessertFirst! The business is usually open very early until 2pm with one or two days off during the week, recommend to check business hours before heading to the French cafe. Bon appétit :)

Meh. New owners. Everything is different. Same menu items, lower quality and less quantity. They even changed the coffee. We will miss Chef Jerome.

I just moved to the area and was looking for an authentic patisserie. Background: my family used to own bakeries, and I'm very opinionated and picky...and most bakeries serve garbage. I've ordered here three times and LOVE IT!Then I read the other reviews and saw that the recipes are from the former owner and he has a new place. I drove to Jerome's new place twice, and ordered 5 pastries at each location to compare. All of the recipes are Jerome's at both places, and they are mostly excellent. It takes so much work to run a bakery and both locations are great...we are lucky to have them in our town. That being said, the vanilla eclair and especially the apple tart that you'll find here were significantly better in taste and presentation than anything I tried over there. I can't speak to the full menu, but the pastries are really wonderful here and I have to resist going daily. Sometimes I lose the fight.