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Best Bakery in Connecticut Ever

UC15 said:
Super overrated
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I think its very very good, but I could say if consider the $$$$ they charge into the equation an overrated tag could apply. I lend my custom in Niantic to Giuliano's across the street far more for my common bakery needs. Its nice having both right there though. There are times I will pick something up at sift.
 
storrsroars said:
I have never understood why anyone likes black & white cookies. Especially now when so many bakeries can pull off reasonable facsimiles of a Levain chocolate chip monster.
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Funny thing, an authentic black & white cookie is actually a cake. My understanding it's technically a "drop cake," and turned upside down to frost. The texture is more cakey than cookie. The ones at (the old) Eclair on 1st Avenue were tremendous. Even better were from a kosher (dairy) bakery on Avenue M in Midwood near my grandparents apartment on E. 19th Street (I'd never remember the name, long gone, not far from DiFaras).

Last time I grabbed one at Zaros for a train ride home it was sub-par, serves my drunk a** right.
 
Sailor111 said:
Hands Down, Mayron's Bakery. Had branches on Blue Hills and Albany Aves in Hartford. Famous nationally for baking President Kennedy's
Inaugural Celebration Cake. Made "Honey Dipped Donuts" that would melt in your mouth. The best I have ever tasted. Made incredible individual cakes
that they called "Squares". One was all chocolate and the other marble. Baked the best Danish Pastries and Pecan Buns. Their fresh baked rolls were perfect.
I have traveled the world far and wide (Active Duty Navy - 29 years) and have not seen or visited a better bakery. Sadly, they did not relocate to the
suburbs and went out of business.
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Point of fact more so than dispute: Mayron's did indeed follow the 1960s Jewish diaspora from Hartford's North End further west on Albany Avenue to Bishop's Corner in West Hartford, where it was in the shopping plaza occupied variously by Popular Market, Saxony Deli, Kay's Fish Market, and now long-anchored by Crown Market, a kosher establishment that includes a bakery, deli, and full supermarket. Otherwise, you are correct that it was justly lauded in its existence and has not survived to the present.

My various Likes within this thread might mean, "Oh yes, definitely," or, "Thanks for the heads up." That's good indicator of a solid food thread. Thanks for kicking it off with you first post, and welcome to The Boneyard.
 
superjohn said:
The BakeHouse in Litchfield. I don't do pastries, cakes, cookies, cupcakes etc. so can't vouch for it but his bread is great. The French bread is probably the best I've ever had.
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I don’t get how people have this type of willpower. I’m a weak man
 
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jibsey said:
I want a NY style rye bread with seeds for my deli sandwiches, not something that says rye but isn’t.
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karstenkibbe said:
Take a drive down to Stamford, my friend. Beldotti Bakery is your answer. Might be the only stand-alone, full-service kosher bakery left in CT, with a full array of Italian and Jewish baked goods. Grab a poppy or sesame challah while you’re there.
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From the name, I'd have had no idea. Thanks.
JohnFSilver said:
Joey Cupcakes on Newbury Street in Boston is incredible.
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Could have gone w/a Calcaterra slant, but here's Google on "Boston, CT"

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(Not seeing Newbury Street on the map)
 
karstenkibbe said:
Don’t get me started on kosher eatery naming strategies these days. As kosher cuisine has branched out from more traditional Eastern European and deli options over the last few decades, many try way too hard in an attempt to sound hip, ethnic or fancy. The names end up being unoriginal and boring.
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On Middle Neck Road in the Village of Great Neck, there was (is?) a kosher Chinese restaurant named "Cho Sen."
 
elmcityboy said:
yeah, ricotta is one of three newer kosher restaurants here and may actually have the best name of the three haha. the other ones, "fin and scale" and "ladle and loaf", use a _____ and _____ naming convention that is extremely played out imo.
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Fin and scale does sound better than "Sans Trayf" or "Shell-free Sushi," the two runners-up.
 
RipCity said:
I don’t get how people have this type of willpower. I’m a weak man
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Ha, it's not about that for me. I just don't really enjoy them enough to eat them and I don't like pastries at all, cinnamon buns and donuts are revolting IMO. I enjoy pie and ice cream over the holidays and love good bread/bagels.

If I'm eating stuff that's bad for me I'll chow down on all the Jewish deli stuff like pastrami, bagels with cream cheese and lox and all the Italian deli cured meats. Love that stuff.
 
When I lived in Ct I just expected when moved to Denver it would be the same. Little mom and pop bakeries everywhere. I lived on Franklin Ave in the 80’s and there where several within walking distance.
 
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Assuming there is agreement that Greenwich is still located in Connecticut, it's hard to imagine a better bakery that St. Moritz or a better cookie than their Sarah Bernhardts.
 
huskiesouth said:
Assuming there is agreement that Greenwich is still located in Connecticut, it's hard to imagine a better bakery that St. Moritz or a better cookie than their Sarah Bernhardts.
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I can't remember if its St. Moritz or Black Forest Bakery in Greenwich that makes an awesome Krémes (Austro-Hungarian Napolean). I had high hopes for Cafe Dolce in Norwalk but theirs's isn't even close. I'm gonna have to go down and test taste one day soon, probably supplemented by a Tid Bit wedge with fired onions and steak sauce from Greenwich Prime Meats (authentic Manero's spin/knock off).
 
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August_West said:
I think its very very good, but I could say if consider the $$$$ they charge into the equation an overrated tag could apply. I lend my custom in Niantic to Giuliano's across the street far more for my common bakery needs. Its nice having both right there though. There are times I will pick something up at sift.
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Yeah, I think their prices are ridiculous. But you're paying for that location and the aesthetics of the place. Whereas walk down the street to Lis bakery across the street from Engine Room you'll find similar quality baked goods for a better price but no fancy lights or seating.
 
Sailor111 said:
Hands Down, Mayron's Bakery. Had branches on Blue Hills and Albany Aves in Hartford. Famous nationally for baking President Kennedy's
Inaugural Celebration Cake. Made "Honey Dipped Donuts" that would melt in your mouth. The best I have ever tasted. Made incredible individual cakes
that they called "Squares". One was all chocolate and the other marble. Baked the best Danish Pastries and Pecan Buns. Their fresh baked rolls were perfect.
I have traveled the world far and wide (Active Duty Navy - 29 years) and have not seen or visited a better bakery. Sadly, they did not relocate to the
suburbs and went out of business.
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Devores Bakery in Fairfield years ago was the best, the original owners sold the place years ago and after a string of owners it unfortunately closed. It was on the Post Road south side right before Sasco Hill Rd.
 
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UC15 said:
Yeah, I think their prices are ridiculous. But you're paying for that location and the aesthetics of the place. Whereas walk down the street to Lis bakery across the street from Engine Room you'll find similar quality baked goods for a better price but no fancy lights or seating.
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I'm having a very hard time spending money on pastry these days. I mean, I can certainly afford one of these high falutin' pastries, but we have a local place that charges $6 a pop for a pastry. You walk out of their spending $30 for 4 of them with a coffee.

I just won't do this often out of some weird limit caused by old age.

Our local place:
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upstater said:
I'm having a very hard time spending money on pastry these days. I mean, I can certainly afford one of these high falutin' pastries, but we have a local place that charges $6 a pop for a pastry. You walk out of their spending $30 for 4 of them with a coffee.

I just won't do this often out of some weird limit caused by old age.

Our local place: View attachment 85567
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With you there. Those dont even look good.
 
HuskyNan said:
Neil’s in Wallingford.


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So I didn’t realize this thread said “ever.”

Quality Bakeshop in Meriden until about the mid 1990’s had the best doughnuts. When the old Lithuanian ladies who owned it retired, they sold the recipes and equipment to Neil’s (who then opened up in Yalesville).
 
Eddie’s Bakery in Southington. Long gone now. Was at the corner of Mt. Vernon Rd. And Jude Lane, across street from the nearly world famous dive bar… The Thunderbird Lounge. Yahtzee!
 
CONN78SEJ said:
Devores Bakery in Fairfield years ago was the best, the original owners sold the place years ago and after a string of owners it unfortunately closed. It was on the Post Road south side right before Sasco Hill Rd.
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Excellent donuts, they made them for a while after they closed on Post Road in a storefront up on Stratfield Road (Stew Leonard carried them!) but that disappeared as well. I did a building inspection at 1979 Post Road (Devore's building) while they were still there, interesting Korean massage joint upstairs, the ladies were obviously living there :eek:
 
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