Cafes & Carryouts
Across the street from the Ethiopian restaurants in DC’s Shaw neighborhood is this quiet bakery/wi-fi cafe opened in March by Haregewine Messert.
Although the alum of the Ritz-Carlton pastry kitchen spends much of her time turning out elegant special-occasion cakes—and cutting customers rectangular slices of rum-infused, pineapple-and-banana Tropical Cake or tiramisu ($4.95)—she also fills her glass cases with delicate confections: brittle palmiers, traditional kisses of French macaroon, and our favorite, the almond-flavored butter cookies known as sables (two for $1).
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August 01, 2007 |
Reviewed by
Todd Kliman
,
Ann Limpert
,
Cynthia Hacinli
,
Sara Levine
,
Erin Zimmer
