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| - I appreciate that this place makes things with decent ingredients and "OLDE TIME" Swiss methods, so three stars.
Most of the "things" (doughnuts, cookies) are pretty run-of-the-mill in taste, however, and for the calorie investment I'm making, I want more flavor.
As other reviewers have mentioned, the plain cake doughnut makes the grade; they don't douse it with sugar glaze so it has a natural "sweet bread" flavor (not sickly sweet like most pastries). Also, like others have said, the crisp and scrumptious exterior really drives it home.
My big cautions with this place are two: 1) Do NOT get anything with chocolate; it seems everything chocolate there, including made by the chocolatier daughter next door, has taken on the taste of the smell of the building (if that makes sense). It's really off-putting to bite into something expecting the pleasure that is chocolate and get some weird sockish taste. I guess I'll add the caveat that their cookies are not the soft variety, but more of a crunchy consistency; I hate that. Anyway, 2) Expect a bad attitude. I dunno, when I go in here the staff all seems like the other customers and I are irritating them. I notice this prima donna-ish attitude seems to be a thing amongst bakers, but it's pretty obnoxious. A few of the workers (including, I believe, the aforementioned "daughter") were pretty nice, but mostly it's sad sacks all around.
Still, I guess you can be pretty sour if the stuff you make tastes sweet enough for people to come back!
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