Summary for phone users:
Presentation excellent.
Colours outstanding.
Service excellent.
Price reasonable.
Flavourless, disappointing and cloying (picksüß).
Now, the longer review:
Compared to some macaroons from around the corner at Café Melt (see review), these were found to be either, in comparison to those or very honestly and disappointingly on their own, flavourless and cloying. Unless the flavour was announced before [each flavour is labeled behind the glass], it would be impossible or highly unlikely except for perhaps for the slight remains of chocolate in one macaroon, to know what flavour the macaroon was from the taste. Even from beginning, the stark, unnatural artificial-looking colouring-provided colours were off-putting, designed more to match the chair paint and décor than actual flavours. So instead we had frozen sticks from another vendor also available at the cafe.
The two of us shared one assortment box of one of each flavour, taking a bit of half of each from some minutes after we got them and again each day over the nextl days, and comparing notes there might be one or two left in the fridge now several days later and this is not from a sense of desiring to preserve ecstasy for later. Rather an avoidance to not eat something tasteless, bland, and overly-sweet that simply leaves us feeling a little ill.
The most pronounced taste in the macaroons apparently is from powdered white sugar and lots of it in it's chemically-denuded 'glory', and with it more a feeling of sickness that overcomes the eater, while masking any other flavours present. It was not even possible to more than very slightly, detect the savoury taste of chocolate or licorice in the two related macaroons which should have each had strong notes.
Until flavour enters into these, except for everything else the shop has to offer, looks, coffee and location with service, it is suggested to avoid the macaroons here like the plague, and instead get the very intensely-flavoured macaroons at
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