Corrado Bakery
In the city where many a bakery/patisserie shops boast fancy and delightful cakes, few escape fame and publicity. The most celebrated ones, Payard and Fauchon being the most famous and posh places to sample your bon bon or croissant.
Corrado Cafe on 960 Lexington Avenue (70th & 71st) is the kind of place you want to cozy up with a book on a wintry day or sit outside on a summer afternoon. It’s tiny, quaint, offering nothing short of the intimacy you get in a European cafe. The inside can hardly house more than fifteen people. In the summer, that number barely doubles.
All space constraints aside, Corrado’s cakes and pasties are nothing if not sublime. The sweet butter creme is not too overwhelming and offers a balance to a thick, but not dense cake.
I won’t even mention the sheer aesthetic appeal of the cakes themselves, as pictured above. Granted, my use of a paper plate isn’t ideal, but while I am lacking beautiful dishes to display the goodies, I am trying my hardest to create a nice background for these delicacies.
If you find yourself in New York, on the Upper East Side (granted not the hippest of all places) I highly recommend a stop at Corrado for a snack and a treat.
