Patrick's French Bakery & Cafe

Their selections of French breads include: baguettes, country bread, 7-grain breads, petites and grandes boules and speciality breads like Tomato Provencal and Roasted Red Pepper. Croissants, pain au chocolat, apricot soleil and Pineapple Danish (Patrick's personal favorite) are available every day. But it is the individual pastries that take most customers breath away. There are the wonderful standards like eclairs, napoleons, fruit tarts and creme brulees, but it is Patrick's specialities that are beyond description. Trilogy Chocolate cake, Feuillantine Pralinee and Tiramisu are favorites at my house. Here's a description of Patrick's Tiramisu, by well-known food writer Dara Moskowitz: "...a glazed taupe pyramid surmounted by flat multicolored bracelet of chocolate, as though one of the rings of Saturn had come to rest on one of I.M. Pei's Louvre additions...