Crixa versus Tartine. How can one decide? The two bakeries shine equally at different categories of buttery goods but if I had to pick only one bakery, it would be Crixa. La Farine and Massas are also likeable bakeries, respectable in their own right but I just have sentimental tug and feeling for Crixa's pastries which are strangely rustic and refined at the same time. Elegant Boston cream pie and world's best ginger cake. When I taste her ginger cake, life is good again. Moist spicy dark buttery happiness with a dollop of chantilly cream. If there is any better, I don't want to know.
If you love Tartine, don't send me hate mail. I dread the long lines and hard work for a seat at Tartine although they make fabulous cream tarts. Who can resist the house pickled baby carrot served along side their tasty savories.
(Even though Crixa has a very fine pave which looks like a poofy sofa, I prefer the flourless chocolate cake from Betty's ToGo which they only make on Sundays. The absolute most technically excellent pave I've found at Fanny's which I am suppose to be boycotting.)
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