LA Burdick Chocolate Cafe

Cuisine: American Bakery. Specialty: Chocolate (Bon Bons, Cakes, Hot Chocolate, Etc.). Location: 52-D Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. Price: $2/$3/$4.50 for Mini/Small/Large Hot Chocolate. I’ve already mentioned my sweet tooth in the past. Sweets are one of those guilty pleasures that I just can’t survive without....

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Mike’s Pastry: Non-Cannoli Sweets

Nov 17, 10 Mike’s Pastry: Non-Cannoli Sweets

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Cuisine: Italian Bakery. Specialty: Cannoli. Location: 300 Hanover St., Boston, MA. Price: $2-4 each. After ravaging all of Boston’s North End looking for its finest cannoli, I finally reached the end of my line and just couldn’t stand to stomach another. I’d have loved to have reviewed every single cannoli in the North End,...

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Caffe Graffiti

Nov 05, 10 Caffe Graffiti

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Cuisine: Italian and American Location: 64 Cross St, Boston, MA 02113 I’ve already spoken of my cannoli expedition through the North End. I planned out a perfect trip through all the most famous bakeries in the area, trying to find the holy grail of cannolis. The way wasn’t always all that smooth, though. As a traveler, one...

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Bova’s Bakery

Oct 24, 10 Bova’s Bakery

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Cuisine: Italian Baked Goods. Specialty: Cannoli. Location: 134 Salem Street, Boston, MA. I’ve finally arrived at the last stop on my cannoli tasting tour through the North End in Boston: Bova’s Bakery. I would love to say that I saved the best for last, but that unfortunately is not the case here. Bova’s is one of those...

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Maria’s Pastry Shop

Oct 10, 10 Maria’s Pastry Shop

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Cuisine: Italian Bakery. Specialty: Cannoli. Location: 46 Cross Street, Boston, MA 02113-2201. Price: $3 for a Cannoli. Having visited the two grandmasters of the Boston cannoli (Mike’s and Modern Pastry), I was left just a bit unsatisfied. While both served up huge, amazingly decadent, downright scrumptious cannolis, I just...

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Modern Pastry

Sep 22, 10 Modern Pastry

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Cuisine: Italian Baked Goods Specialty: Cannoli Location: 257 Hanover Street, Boston, MA 02113-2322 Price: $2.25 for a Cannoli What’s the strangest thing about the Boston food scene? By far, the cannoli phenomenon. Every town has to have a baking specialty, but in Boston, it’s taken to a new level. Not only does every baker in...

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Cannoli at Mike’s Pastry

Sep 12, 10 Cannoli at Mike’s Pastry

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Cuisine: Italian Baked Goods. Specialty: Cannoli. Location: 300 Hanover St., Boston, MA. Price: $2.50 for a HUGE Cannoli. No city in the nation has really made the cannoli its own quite like Boston, where the cannoli has not just become a bakery staple, but also a city obsession. Not surprisingly, the epicenter of that obsession is...

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