Back to Basics: Clayton's City Coffeehouse and Creperie Remains Successful
City Coffeehouse and Creperie brings international flair and French flavor to Clayton.
City Coffeehouse and Creperie in Clayton is a sweet little restaurant with an interesting mélange of ideas, nationalities and great recipes. It is the brainchild of restaurant business veterans Ray and Anne Gallardo. Anne dreamed of opening a coffeehouse with pastries and that, combined with experiences in the French countryside and with crepe carts in Paris, inspired her to open the creperie in Clayton in 1995. The creperie offers a variety of sweet and savory crepes as well as pastries, quiches, sandwiches, soups, salads, coffees, espressos, teas and smoothies. Anne did not have formal culinary training, but that didn't stop her from cooking many of the crepes and pastries served in the restaurant. Informal training included classes at …
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