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I hope the original location is doing okay
I couldn't figure out why they felt the need to expand into the bakery-saturated North End in the first place. I hear an Italian family owns the business, but their products are mostly American-style, in my limited experience.
Tough neighborhood . . .
. . . to break into the bakery business I'd imagine. Hope their home turf bakery is doing ok.
Sorry to see them go
I will miss them. After living in the neighborhood for three years, I rarely get cravings for cannoli any more. Their cupcakes were a nice change of pace. I hope LuLu's on Salem isn't headed the same way. Actually, I wonder if Lyndell's would have done better on one of the less touristy streets. Salem Street has some businesses that cater more to locals - personally I avoid Hanover unless I have a serious reason to go there.
A very small store
I only went in the North End store once, last fall, I think. The store was extremely small and to my mind had very little selection, especially compared to their original store. I didn't see anything I wanted and left without buying anything. I don't think that the display cases were very full, either.
As I recall, this was the site of another new-start bakery that failed, and Lyndell's took the space over. Probably a bad business decision. I can imagine that the rents on Hanover Street are sky-high and they probably weren't covering their costs. Also, there probably wasn't enough room to actually produce anything there, meaning everything had to be trucked in. And I walked by the storefront often, never thought it was very inviting.
The other bakery...
...was Lulu's, which is currently in the space on Salem Street that had been Dairy Fresh.
Anyone else....
still mourning the loss of Dairy Fresh?
yes Michael! Still mourning over here
I LOVED Dairy Fresh. I loved how one side had the high end chocolates, and the other side had all the candy, nuts, etc in plastic bags. Loved, loved, loved going in there. Took visitors in there all the time.
One friend from Canada was in search of "salt licorice" which I'd never heard of (remarkable, given my lifetime level of candy-consumption). Guess where she found it! She was delighted. I celebrated by buying a bag for myself--not bad!
They just don't have candy shops like that anymore; at least not in neighborhoods I find myself in on a semi-regular basis.
There still is Phillips Candy House......
,,, over on Morrissey Blvd -- but this is a bit more expensive and upscale -- and impossible to reach except via automobile.
One of my kids told the folks at Dairy Fresh -- "when I grow up, I want to live int hsi store". They were amused -- and pleased. Alas, it was not to be.
At least the exercise clothes store that replaced Dairy Fresh has now bee replaced by a cup cake store (wares not yet tried out, however).
I've been to Phillips Candy House
It's a great place too, I just don't find myself in that part of town very often.
I wanted to live in Dairy Fresh too...or at least really close by.
We'd almost never get out direction....
... if our kids would (finally) graduate from U. Mass Boston.
Cardullo's
If you're looking for salt licorice - and an incredible variety of licorice in general - check out Cardullo's. They're pricy, and you should be vigilant checking freshness dates (or just a general "feel" of freshness) but they're another great source for candy from all over.
I had a grade-school classmate in the mid-1960s who was an immigrant from the Netherlands, and she was the one who first introduced me to salty licorice. At the time I thought it was revolting - nowadays, while it's not my favorite, I can at least see how some folks might like it.