Delice Bakery, Los Angeles, CA
Overall, our epicurean strategy during October’s trip to LA was to focus on the kinds of shops and restaurants we didn’t have back home, and in that spirit we twice visited Delice Bakery on Pico Boulevard. First, we were hankering for an mid-afternoon snack to tide us over until dinner. It was a challenge to decide between all the perfect-looking cakes, petites-fours, tarts, cookies, and pastries (both dairy and pareve varieties available) but we settled on a miniature pareve fruit tart — as delicious as it was visually striking.
Amazed too by what we didn’t try — including their wide variety of breads and “best of LA” croissants — we made Delice our last stop before departing for the airport. After being informed that they weren’t serving crepes, Sarah simply had pain au chocolat, and I tried their breakfast special — omlette, potatoes “dauphinoise,” fresh diced salad, croissant, and sweet butter. Truth be told, the potatoes weren’t dauphinoise at all — instead just a large, tasty potato pancake — but it was all excellent nonetheless, and certainly the best croissant I’d ever had.
To prepare for our trip, we bought a regular baguette and a baguette epis, shaped like a stalk of wheat. Both made terrific snacks while we waited at LAX for our delayed flight back home.
I was in L.A. in November and seeing all of the kosher restaurants and markets on Pico Blvd. made it nearly impossible to choose one to go to! I was only in that area for a night, so we settled on Chinese food. I don’t remember the name of the restaurant, but apparently it used to be treyf but then decided to become kosher. Overall, the food was good, the service was good, but we’re spoiled with the quality of Taam China’s food here in Brookline.