Chef Clément Le Déoré started baking at fifteen in Brittany, France, trained across Corsica and Australia, and spent a decade cooking around the world before settling in San Diego and opening Desserts by Clement, a French patisserie at 1380 Garnet Ave in the 92109. Before launching his own shop, Le Déoré served as executive chef at Le Parfait Paris and built a wholesale dessert catering business whose client list included the Hotel del Coronado. He was selected to appear on The Great American Baking Show—an appearance derailed by the pandemic—and later competed as a finalist on Food Network's Spring Baking Championship, bringing national visibility to his pastry work. The Pacific Beach café, which opened in late 2023 in the former Freshii space, re-creates a Parisian ambiance with a playful, polished interior and a neon sign that reads "Sorry I'm busy eating dessert." The bakery case is stocked daily with petit gâteaux, macarons, éclairs, crème brûlées, and the crowd-favorite rolled croissants filled with flavored cream. Le Déoré's close friend Romain Bonnet—a former pastry chef turned property manager and star of Netflix's Selling Sunset—assisted with establishing the business. European dining traditions run deep in Pacific Beach, and Enoteca Adriano carries that continental spirit with its Italian wine bar and kitchen nearby on Garnet. Desserts by Clement holds a 4.7-star Google rating across nearly 500 reviews, earning one of the highest scores among PB dining spots, and the San Diego County health department gave it a 96-out-of-100 inspection score. The shop also offers baking classes that teach French pastry vocabulary, regional techniques, and hands-on skills. Dinner seekers heading farther down Garnet can follow the avenue to Filippi's Pizza Grotto Pacific Beach for Italian comfort food in a classic red-checkered-tablecloth setting.