Carlo's Bake Shop. Hoboken Pastry Pride.
Today's Six-Word Memoir: "Drove 20 miles for good cannoli."
I Yelp-ed "dessert places" in Hoboken and found Carlo's Bake Shop, a sweet little bakery owned by Buddy Valastro, Italian American chef and star of TLC's reality show Cake Boss. The bake shop has been around nearly a 100 years now (since 1910) and is widely known for biscottis, cannolis, and oh, i don't know, 20 other drool-worthy Italian pastries. Best known for his specialty cakes, New York Daily News reports Valastro made Britney Spears' Circus-themed birthday cake for her 27th birthday.
The shop is a little on the expensive side but I got what I paid for--$3 well-spent on freshly-made, "love at first bite" Chocolate Cannoli. YUM-MY. The baker puts cannoli cream into the crisp chocolate shell as you buy 'em so you can be sure it's not one of those sad little pastries sitting in a display window for hours. Creamy and chocolatey with a biscuit-like finish, it's one of those pastries you know has been perfected over time.
Freshly-made Chocolate Cannoli: $3. Sexy smile free with purchase.
Carlo's Bake Shop
90 Washington St.
Hoboken, NJ 07030
201 659 3671
A must-eat, even for you Jersey-hatin' New Yorkers. I dare you to miss it!
- Kris Alcantara
Today's Sugarhigh: Dried Cranberries from Whole Foods
Score: B+
