pastries

The coffee is great, but don't sleep on Jared Sexton's pastry program.

Marble Dessert Bar also serves excellent baked goods during the day.

A strawberry tart New York Slice is among the offerings.

People started lining up at 5:30 a.m. for the pastry chef's weekend-long residency at Dominque Ansel bakery.

Step inside Bed-Stuy's Pilar Cuban Bakery and you might, for a moment, think you're in Miami instead.

Floral designer Xue Ling and pastry chef Carla Di Virgilio bring 'a kingdom of flowers and delicacies' to 14th Street.

Anyone who has made a quick caffeine pitstop in the Eternal City knows that to sip espresso in Rome typically means leaning against a small counter.

Their signature microwaved apple pie has been upgraded with a latticed crust, and they'll also serve things like chocolate and plain croissant.

The donnoli (connoli+donut) showed up quietly, and as the wan afternoon sun has already begun to fade, soon to deposit us into icy, wind-whipped night, we were glad.

Cronuts are the new cupcakes.