We have sometimes removed benzylesters using a related reagent TMSCl/NaI when hydrogenation was not an option. The reaction required somewhat elevated temperatures (I think we ran it around 45 °C), but the citations on which we based our conditions gave varying values of time and temperature. I seem to recall thinking that TMSBr would be more sluggish than TMSCl/NaI, but I don't recall my reasoning. There is a separate thread about this deesterification reaction from roughly six months ago or so.