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BAKERY
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CAFE / COFFEE SHOP
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DELI / SANDWICHES
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Bread & Chocolate
Newtonville
108 Madison Avenue (Walnut St.) - map
Newton, MA 02460
617.243.0500
617.243.0510 fax
Hours
Mon.-Thu. 7a.m.-4p.m.
Fri.-Sat. 7a.m.-5p.m.
Sun. 9a.m.-2p.m.
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| Price (lunch) | $ |
| Price (breakfast) | ¢ |
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Features
takeout
Accepts
cash
Smoking
not permitted
Dress
casual
Alcohol
no alcohol served
Reservations
not accepted
Parking
street parking
public transit accessible
Handicapped Access
partially accessible
Entrance is up a ramp from street level.
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Description
Small, family-owned bakery cafe tucked on a side street in Newtonville. They offer sandwiches, pastries, cupcakes, and special-occasion cakes.
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The Garden City Listing - The Garden City; Blog-style reviews from local residents. - suggest change
A little elegant pastry shop... - Tish's Dish; Capsule review from a local blog. - suggest change
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A Few Good Things, but Undeserving of Hype
I ate a few great things here not long ago, but the "featured" items - the cupcakes - were incredibly disappointing.
First the bad news: I had read that B&C was initially conceived as a specialty cake shop. Owner Eunice Feller is quoted as saying that their ever-changing array of cupcakes is their way of "dating the customers." But I got my milk, and I'm not buying any of their 6-12" special occasion cows anytime soon.
I tried 4 cupcakes - Red-Eye (coffee) with espresso buttercream, Red Velvet (spice cake) with cream cheese icing, Chocolate with Italian buttercream, and Black Forest cupcake with chocolate ganache icing - and all had the same flaws:
refrigerator-burn;
floury, weak flavor;
dry, crumbly cake;
miserly icing portions;
hard, bland icing - this was especially a problem for the buttercream, which behaved less like a soft, fluffy cream and more like a cold, hard pat of unsalted butter - refrigerator-burned, of course. (For a good buttercream yardstick, see Lulu's in the North End or Rosie's.)
Now the good news - service is cheery and attentive, and they do actually offer a few things that taste good:
Chocolate Hazelnut Mousse - nice and nutty, thick, creamy
Blueberry Almond Tart - bright lemony flavor, more fruity than sugary, with a good working crust
Cheese and Bacon scone - soft, buttery; thick, biscuity crust - and scallions! Wish it had more bacon bits, though...
In-between:
Ham and Cheese croissant - nice and fatty, with a sharply cheesy filling
Chocolate croissant - more-generously filled than some other choco-croissants I've met, possibly with a soft chocolate filling rather than a couple lazily thrown-in baking bars
Croissant caveat: dough of both croissants was a little tough and possibly overbaked.
Foods not sampled:
lunch items
brioche sticky & cinnamon buns
cibatta breads
fruit custard tarts
beverages [30 Mar 2007 15:44:10]
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Recommended Dishes: cheddar bacon scone, chocolate hazelnut mousse
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