Bar de l'U sur Besancon

29/03/2026: The staff are friendly, the pastries a bit pricey, but certainly due to a concept and format modeled on the US, Canada, or Anglo-Saxon countries. Personally, smaller portions for a maximum cost of €2 or €2.60 would be preferable, as well as a smaller portion (half or three-quarters maximum of what's presented) for French pastries, without compromising the original concept too much (croissant, pain au chocolat, pain suisse, mirabelle plum tart, raspberry lemon tart, mille-feuille, etc.). The cost of the pastries is suitable for a once-a-week budget, when one is sensible and doesn't want to waste time in a place where, failing to compliment the neighbor or the waitresses (rude and unwelcome harassment, not to mention potential antisocial prejudices and vigilantes of all kinds), and to avoid shady characters (a trip to a place like a puppet, Bar 1, Café 2, a waste of time, and encounters with a series of characters). Technological signage, the impresario, Stromboli, the commercial, the carpet salesman, train passengers (public transport) and their prejudices based on situation, beliefs, and classifications (poor, bourgeois, destitute, proletarian, average...). I (a multiplication of self through self-effacement within the collective) can take 30 minutes to get some fresh air, read a magazine or a book, prepare material to revise my English or German for the week, in addition to my normal workload, and avoid my neighbors and their behavioral problems (banging on the floor, rolling objects on the floor like bowling balls, the noise of wheels and metal gears...) in a city dwelling, a prison whose freedom is conditioned by myself between rest and the obligation to rest. Good luck.

29/03/2026: Really nice bar, I'll be back. Be careful of the birds in the bar as they may leave droppings.