Breakfast and pastry posts on The Joy of Food blog.
Miami, FL (The Joy of Food) — Zak the Baker is the bakery every neighborhood needs, a bustling, thriving city hot spot with the glorious baked goods to warrant its cult-like following and endless accolades. If you come here for one thing and one thing only, it should be for […]
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Paris, France (The Joy of Food) — I was introduced to Ladurée, and dare I say the finer things in life, on trips to Paris in my youth, when I was led hand-in-hand down the grand boulevards by my mother and given bites of the cloud-like little pillows of pistachio-flavored […]
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Los Angeles, CA (The Joy of Food) — Porto’s is a Cuban-French-Mexican-American bakery in and around the L.A. region popular for a mishmash of breakfast and lunch offerings at low prices. The catch? That would be the interminable line every minute of the day. In a world of designer drinks […]
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Austin, TX (The Joy of Food) — Austin loves the food puns. Coat & Thai, Thai, How Are You?, Bananarchy, Pho King, and of course, Juan in a Million. This is dining by Mother Goose. Juan in a Million is a hole-in-the-wall purveyor of traditional Tex-Mex cuisine, easily rating as […]
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Louisville, KY (The Joy of Food) — When God closes a window, he will lovingly remind you that Waffle House’s doors are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. The prices are low, the service is friendly, and the menu is straightforward and simple, […]
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Orange County, CA (The Joy of Food) — Sarkis Pastry is the house that baklava built, a Near Eastern bakery specializing in every type of baklava found under the sun. There’s one walnut-filled baklava called “kul-wushkur” which translated from Arabic means “taste and give thanks to heaven,” a phrase that […]
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Miami, FL (The Joy of Food) — Entire religions have been founded on miracles less profound than the Italian bombolone, a type of doughnut that’s deep-fried and then filled with custards, creams, or hazelnut (the mighty Nutella, of course). To find this type of fried carbo perfection in Miami Beach, […]
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Boston, MA (The Joy of Food) — With a name like Bagelsaurus, I was really worried this was going to suck. No good, I thought, could come from a place whose logo sports a bagel-clad dinosaur. But the joke was on me. Everybody searches for that perfect bagel, and in […]
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Montreal, Canada (The Joy of Food) — There’s no where better to journey into a plate of grease for dinner than La Banquise, also known as Montreal’s poutine mecca. Open 24/7, this place is popular with daytime and nighttime crowds, a beacon of hope and refuge for the drunk, stoned, […]
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