All day, a counter up front sells bread, pastry (including spectacular babkas) and fresh cake doughnuts ($1.50).
Out to brunch It's not really very French to do brunch, but there are a number of cafés around the Old Town to watch the world go by, grab a mid morning pastry, including Le Pain Quotidien at 1 rue St-François-de-Paule (12) (00 33 4 93 62 94 32).
Pastry includes big, lush bomboloni and other desserts ($1.95 and to $3.75 a portion; $23 to $28 for a whole cake) made just for the shop by Goupil & DeCarlo, a fine East Village bakery.
Fillings that would benefit from a blind-baked pastry include: fruit (stewed or fresh), custard, meringue and quiche.
She also makes pastries, including chocolate mousse, macarons and profiteroles.
Several Wegmans stores sell his pastries, including assorted macaroons.
Up front are breads and pastries, including tarts and homemade croissants.
Quinn Ventura, the talented baker, can be seen turning out some delectable pastries, including cookies, brownies, coconut macaroons, biscotti, pies and cakes.
Pastries, including Sicilian fig cookies and Cheddar-dill scones, are on the menu, and there is a list of classic hot and cold coffee and espresso drinks (top).
Finnish arts and crafts were for sale alongside characteristic pastries, including homemade snickerdoodles, which I enjoyed too much to question whether they were really Finnish.
The shop's breakfast pastries, including twice-baked brioche slices, and its creamy tartlets, cookies, cakes and fancy lemon meringue and fruit tarts are all baked in Brooklyn.
