CDD is a small Italian bakery located on Rhawn in the NE. I’ve driven by it for years. Surprisingly, they were open yesterday so I stopped in for a few last minute Easter items: ricotta cheese cake, sfogliatelle, hot cross...

apple in it; we loved it. We tasted the chocolate torta with mascarpone cheese that our friends ordered; basically a flourless chocolate cake, but a good version. Sovalo has a bar, but you are welcome to bring your own wine. We...

. My husband had three cheeses for dessert, and had a great time with them. I had the financier (an almond cake with meringue, sort of like a dacquoise) with a caramel sauce. It was very good, but not a dessert I would order...

My husband has been wanting a sour cream coffee cake, and since family is coming tomorrow, this is a good time. I have a bunch of recipes, and one that looked very good, clipped from either Bon Appetit or Epicurious, calls for 4...

Gittels on Devon just east of California has black and white cookies. They also have good cakes and hammentashen in season. They are the closet I’ve found to a NYC bakery here. Gittels reminds me of Shelley’s in...

Sylvia, Just wanted to conjecture that the cake you mentioned may be a Piedmont – almond genoise, rapsberries in kirsch & hazelnut cream. I have been to Aux Petits twice (since discovering it this past year). The last time I...

hey laylag! thanks for the link to Lulu’s Patisserie Cakes! Those are exactly the style that my mom would dig — very Syliva Weinstock-ish. Do you know if their prices are as crazy as hers? She charges $1000 for...

Does anybody have a good, old-fashioned, homestyle kind of bakery to recommend in Phila and metro area? NOT the nouvelle kind! Particularly looking for a bakery that does great basic birthday cakes!

, which serves four ($28) is delicious. It has items such as grilled calimari, chicken livers, polenta with cheese, braised fennel, some great little cake (risotto?), and many others things, all of which are tasty. So many...

, another dumpling (chicken?), the corn fritter, the crispy crab cake, salad, and spring rolls. (I may not be accurate.) It is delicious. Most of the other appetizers, and there are many, are more like $6.00. This last time I had...

was lacking, with the cake to one side and a pool of creme anglaise sauce on the rest (should put cake in middle; on one side it reminds the diner how little he’s actually getting for the money) also cup of coffee. total...

. The entrees were very good, though less exciting – sliced strip steak with bacon wrapped potato galette, and lamb t-bones with lamb arancini with a risotto cake. The favorite dessert was “whoppers” - chocolate...

Had dinner there last night.....spring rolls, penne pasta...Crab Cake....expresso desert....everything fabulous...can’t wait to go back!

cheese cake was one of the best versions – light, creamy, delicately flavored. But my semifreddo – wow! It was full of crunchy nuts with some chocolate in there, cream and strawberry slices on the side, and it was...

that the wild striped bass was the best fish he’d ever had. My wild king salmon with boulanger potatoes (a crispy potato cake) was perfectly medium rare, as I had ordered it. The mushroom smoked paprika tagliatelle was...