pastries
The art of buying pastry on Christmas Eve in the North End
By adamg - 12/24/08 - 4:30 pmRoss Levanto makes his annual Christmas-Eve trek to Mike's Pastry and shares a hard-won tip:
... You need to feel the crowd and the lines, and look for a "soft spot" where the attendant-to-customer ratio is the highest. ...
More proof Mike's may have gotten too successful
By adamg - 6/30/08 - 12:55 pmBoston Foodie reports on the spoiled birthday cake and rude service she got when she tried to return the cake that, it turns out, had been left in a store refrigerator that had died the night before.
