Pastries

Anyone have a favourite bakery that has stopped living up to its name? A favourite pastry that just isn't the same anymore?

by Charles Yu 2 months ago

It will take a lot of guts to compete and open up a Hong Kong style cafe/bakery in the same plaza as ' Luculus '....one of the best Hong Kong style bakery in the GTA. Today, driven by curiosity,...

Very disappointing. Tried Mike's cannoli and sfogliatelle. Fair. Bova's last weekend was also fair. I asked for baba au rhum. Had no idea what I was talking about. Rum cake? Okay, I'll take ...

I'm going up to NYC for a baby naming this coming week. We will be staying mostly in the Murray Hill section with a jaunt over to Chelsea to check out Museum of Illusions. I'm on a budget and goi...

Tom fell in love with kouign amann while on our home exchange in Brittany, I have been searching for a bakery in San Francisco that sells this. I tried using David Leibovitz's version which was to...

by mochi mochi 13 years ago

Does anyone have a recipe for the Teacakes from Grace Pastries on Jefferson Blvd. in Crenshaw-Los Angeles? The bakery is long gone... The cakes were square with a butter frosting and very greasy. I...

by The Chowhound Team 8 months ago

Cédric Grolet, the brilliant French pastry chef and illusionist seems to have been cultivated specifically for this moment. A deeply talented chef with a flair for eye-catching pastries that sparkl...

Hello, I want to make a recipe that calls for 10g of fresh yeast but would like to sub instant. After fruitlessly researching online, I am still kind of confused what the conversion would be. I'v...

Please help me find a recipe for sweetmeat empanadas. My grandma, Teresina, used to make these at Christmas. She used a hand-grinder to grind pork roast. I think there were raisins and it was pr...

This topic -- where to find good rugelach -- comes up periodically, but it's been awhile, so perhaps we could revisit it. The rugelach I grew up on is what was sold at Lederman's Bakery in Newto...

by Giannis 11 months ago

That was my sixth time in Paris. It was more of a gastronomical trip so we got lots of food. We lost one day due to the gilet jaunes . We had lunch at L'Astrance, Guy Savoy and dinner at Auberge Br...

Finally, an Italian bakery + gelato shop + cafe + snack bar owned and run by Italians from Italy!!!! This place is a real gem on the corner of Meridian and San Carlos. Very close to the Meridian ex...

by Charles Yu 1 year ago

This high-tech looking, sophisticately constructed, amazingly tasting and super-moist " Passion fruit, Pineapple Rum Baba with a coconut 'syringe' " from DUO, Richmond Hill just became my most favo...

I know this isn't a Vancouver thread (I'm going to SF and stumbled on this) but I love KA too and used to get them at Beyond Bread but they don't make them anymore:(. Bread Affairs is more like a d...

by John Talbott 1 year ago

“Christian Constant, the pastry guy, is now on the rue des Ecoles” my and our old friend Julot, for those chowhounders old enough to remember, wanted me to post. He’s alive and kicking and teachin...

Sugar early morning no longer agrees with me, but I love a good breakfast pastry. Are there any good stuff in Montreal you can recommend? Recently in Toronto I had these amazing brioche type pastri...

by Island Girl 7 years ago

I searched the Chowhound threads and I've done all sorts of Google searches but nothing is jumping out to say that a bakery in Toronto is making Kouign Amann pastries. David Leibovitz has good a r...