Best Pastries

Can one pastry chef, blueberry-stoneground cornmeal cake in hand, redefine the perfect dinner party/birthday/anniversary dessert in a city with ovens as large and diverse as L.A.? Perhaps not, but Zoe Nathan's stone fruit crostatas at Huckleberry have been giving those perfectly coiffed layer cakes and perky cupcakes some serious To-Go competition the past few years. Stock up on napkins, as nibbling here is often accented by fantastic amounts of butter in the guise of maple-bacon biscuits and incredibly flaky croissants (plain, or filled with various sundries like prosciutto or Valrhona chocolate). For lunch, a savory whole wheat-vegetable crostata would be satisfying enough on its own. But you're going to want to try a slice of that banana caramel pie, lemon pistachio cake and sure, the flourless chocolate walnut torte, too. This is the truly rare bakeshop helmed by the equivalent of a three-star restaurant pastry chef.

Source: LA Weekly

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