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Sweet Life offers an overwhelming, dizzying selection, like a Periodic Table of the Desserts
The patisserie offers special concoctions for Valentine's Day, including Love Rocket éclairs
by Adam Gray | Freelance Reporter |
PUBLISHED ON 2/12/08 IN Valentine's Day
Sweet Life also crafts custom-made wedding cakes and has a fine selection of savory pastries such as quiche, pepperoni and mozzarella calzones or spinach and feta croissants for those lacking a sweet tooth.
However, confection is obviously the patisserie's specialty and money is better spent on the exquisite desserts. Customers can also choose from more than 30 flavors of organic teas, and the Equator coffee beans are organic and locally roasted.
The regular clientele is almost as diverse as the variety of desserts. Swanky professionals and pottering slackers mix with comic-reading farmers, bawdy grandmothers and lone students bent over Debord's Marxist philosophy. The patisserie manages to be unassumingly classy - the chic is in the desserts - while the atmosphere is pleasing and characteristic of a laid-back café.
Patrons can expect to order a sumptuous dessert or reasonably priced coffee and feel at home either way. The prices are fitting with the quality. Sweet Life is not a place to go on the cheap; a piece of cake runs about $4. But, you get what you pay for, which in this case is a good thing.
However, confection is obviously the patisserie's specialty and money is better spent on the exquisite desserts. Customers can also choose from more than 30 flavors of organic teas, and the Equator coffee beans are organic and locally roasted.
The regular clientele is almost as diverse as the variety of desserts. Swanky professionals and pottering slackers mix with comic-reading farmers, bawdy grandmothers and lone students bent over Debord's Marxist philosophy. The patisserie manages to be unassumingly classy - the chic is in the desserts - while the atmosphere is pleasing and characteristic of a laid-back café.
Patrons can expect to order a sumptuous dessert or reasonably priced coffee and feel at home either way. The prices are fitting with the quality. Sweet Life is not a place to go on the cheap; a piece of cake runs about $4. But, you get what you pay for, which in this case is a good thing.
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