I love Astoria... My parents have stories of getting La Guli's cannolli cake for every single family birthday party and that tradition continued through out my childhood. I also remember my parents taking my sisters and me for a drive to astoria on really hot summer nights to get their Italian Ices. They recently restored their store front with special Italian craftsmen to its original appearance back in the 1930's when it first opened....I have to bring my father to see if it is as he remembers it as a kid. I know the inside is pretty much the same.. I like that kind of old world feel ... a lot. As my wife says you get a feeling of nostalgia when you walk in and when you get a cake(I recommend cannoli of course) and taste it I literally have flash backs of the many happy times I had eating it as a child...it tastes exactly the same... we have tried other bakeries and no one even comes close... they mostly all cut corners... I know most use fake white rum!!!.... so we take the drive from long island. They changed ownership (6 to 7+-?) years ago and then quickly bought it back when the heard complaints that the new owners were not keeping up the tradition and quality they worked so hard for decades to maintain. Definitely worth a try to judge for yourself!!!
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