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اتوار 14 دسمبر 2003Sunday, December 14, 2003

Patisserie Recommendations

It’s snowing here and all I can think of is some nice French pastry.

I am looking for some real good patisserie recommendations in New York city. Something to remind us of our trip to France last year.

POSTSCRIPT: I am looking for a patisserie, not a French restaurant with good dessert, preferably in Manhattan. Can any New York city bloggers help?

Posted by Zack at December 14, 2003 1:05 PM in Food and Cooking

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It snowed here too yesterday in Murree, and rained here in Islamabad. So it’s gotten colder now.

Posted by: Munira Ajmal (31 comments) at December 15, 2003 2:37 AM

Munira: We got snow and then rain.

Posted by: Zack (1792 comments) at December 15, 2003 4:02 PM

There’s Soutine on West 70th Street between Columbus and Amsterdam. One of New York’s hidden treasures (and right across from another hidden treasure, the Epices de Traiteur Moroccan restaurant).

Posted by: Jonathan Edelstein (83 comments) at December 15, 2003 6:41 PM

I’m doing Atkins and you had to ask this.

Actually this is one area where (I think) Manhattan isn’t the pinnacle.

There’s Jon Vie on 11th & 6th, unpretentious.

Patisserie Bonte on 75th & 3rd–dunno if they are still open but a few years ago their customers sent a petition to the landlord to help keep them open. Cozy, as I remember. The baker used to be a White House chef. The real deal. Tell me if they are open.

Posted by: Diana (21 comments) at December 16, 2003 9:25 AM

Oh yeah, and if ya wanna be a real snoot, you can go to Payard, Lex between 73 & 74.

Posted by: Diana (21 comments) at December 16, 2003 9:27 AM

Thanks, Diana and Jonathan.

Posted by: Zack (1792 comments) at December 16, 2003 5:45 PM

Sorry about that. I can tell you good places to find Italian pastry. I can refer you to my favorite cheap fishmonger in Chinatown. I can help you find Seville oranges. I can even tell you where to get good tamales and canned huitlacoche in Brooklyn. But when it comes to French pastry, I’m a complete washout. I’ve never really gotten into the stuff. I barely know who sells it, and I don’t know who does it well.

Posted by: Teresa Nielsen Hayden (3 comments) at December 17, 2003 9:36 PM

Zack

Check out “Les Ambassades” in Harlem (forgot the address). Franco-senegalese, real neat.

Posted by: Libre (3 comments) at December 17, 2003 10:03 PM

Teresa: Thanks. I’ll probably ask you about one of these things you mentioned some time.

Libre: Thanks, but I can’t find it. Do you have more info?

Posted by: Zack (1792 comments) at December 20, 2003 7:18 PM

It’s a deal.

I don’t suppose you know of a better place to get nonstandard kinds of citrus than Dean & Deluca, Garden of Eden, and random bodegas in Spanish-speaking neighborhoods when Mexican sour oranges are in season? I keep thinking there’s got to be a place somewhere in this city that sells non-liturgical citrons, Buddha’s hand citrons, lavender gems, limequats, sweet limes, pineapple oranges, and all the other weird varieties…

Posted by: Teresa Nielsen Hayden (3 comments) at December 21, 2003 1:07 AM

Teresa: I could claim ignorance since I am a fake Jerseyan (my wife lives here while I am going to school in Atlanta), but that doesn’t convey the breadth of my ignorance. I don’t even know half of those varieties of citrus you are talking about.

Posted by: Zack (1792 comments) at December 21, 2003 5:07 PM

noticed you said you can find seville oranges in new york city, i’ve been trying but can’t, any suggestions?

thanks matt

Posted by: Matt (1 comments) at January 11, 2004 12:36 PM

Matt: You might want to contact Teresa.

Posted by: Zack (1792 comments) at January 12, 2004 12:56 AM

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