This is a blog that shares my experiences with bakeries within the five boroughs & keeps up with local news about dessert and pastries. This is for my own personal enjoyment. My opinions are based on nothing more than my innate love of sugar.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Review: La Dolce Via
La Dolce Via
12-58 150st
Whitestone, NY
(718) 747-3652
Items ordered: Cannoli dream cake, rainbow cookie cake, amaretto gelato
Rating out of 5:
I really wanted to like this place, mainly because its so darn cute inside. They have a pink vespa in one window and festively painted walls, but I wasn't impressed with what I tried. However, I'd be willing to come back to try more gelato flavors, because I don't think its fair to judge them based on one flavor, one time. Its their pastries I was really disappointed in.
The amaretto gelato was alright, I thought the flavor was pretty weak though and I got bored with it fast.
UGH. Looks pretty, doesn't it? I had no reason to think this wouldn't be delicious, which made the let down so much worse. It tastes nothing like cannoli cream, it tastes cream cheese based. I can eat cream cheese on bagels, but on nothing else, and in no other form. I understand people think I'm crazy, but no matter what other ingredients are added it always tastes like pure cream cheese. Cinnabon's icing is an exception, but I doubt there is any real cream cheese in there.
The rainbow cake also looked delicious, but didn't have much of an almond flavor and it had a strange aftertaste I couldn't quite place.
Maybe I went on an off day, but I couldn't even finish the two mini cakes I bought. Sad.
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