HUNGARIAN PASTRY SHOP1030 Amsterdam Ave (between 110th and 111th)
Open: Monday-Friday 7.30 am-11.30 pm, Saturday 8.30 am-11.30 pm, Sunday 8.30 am-10.30 pm
Menu:*****
Atmosphere:****
Service: ****
Price: $$
The Hungarian Pastry Shop is located across the street from the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine. It is a great place where to rest if you are visiting the Church or if you just find yourself walking around this area of the city. Very close to Columbia University, this pastry shop is always crowded with Columbia students with their computers (you have wireless access in there), and their books, drinking a cup of coffee and enjoying the delicious pastries. Woody Allen used this café for his Wives and Husbands.
They have a great choice of any kind of pastry: croissants (plain or with delicious jam and butter), a variety of danish, tarts (they have amazing strudel and tiramisu’), and cookies. Their cappuccino ($ 3.50) is among the best I have experienced in NYC! The cream on the top is thick and doesn’t disappear if you touch it with the spoon!!! If you don’t like cappuccino, their regular American coffee is also very tasty and the hot chocolate is good and served with a side of whipped cream.The atmosphere is warm. When you enter they take your order immediately at the bar on your left side and ask for your first name. You can then take a seat. You’ll be reading your book or talking to your friend and you suddenly hear them calling your name! Your order is ready and the waitress brings it to your table as soon as you answer the call with your hand! The atmosphere is cosy and familiar, waiters talk with different accents and the clientele range from kids to adults, New Yorkers and visitors to the city.
The style is of an old-fashion European bakery with nice contemporary art paintings on the wall. If you look carefully you notice that not only paintings fill the walls but also dozens of books’ covers…all those books were conceived by their authors in the Hungarian Pastry Shop! If you are in search of creative inspiration…this is the right place!!
The Hungarian Pastry Shop is perfect for reading but only if you don’t mind noisy in the background. The morning is actually quite calm but during the day the atmosphere becomes more lively and, even if there is no music, people’s talking make the room quite noisy!
A final recommendation: If you are not in the mood of pastry, right next door you have the Sandwich Shop. The same owner runs this place where you find delicious eastern-European style sandwiches: don’t miss the baguette with Roast-beef and horseradish sauce! You can take your baguette from the Sandwich Shop and enjoy it sitting at a table in the Pastry Shop…
4 comments:
I've passed by this place so many times, but never had chance to actually come by. (And didn't know they serve varitey of menu, not only pastry, either.) Sounds like very cozy hangout place. I'll definitely try. Thanks!
I knew this bakery cafe. It was extremely crowded when I went. I didn't have a chance going inside.
I picked up the cakes instead of waiting for seats. You were luckey to have a seat. I didn't know about Woody Allen's film shooting here. But this place reminds me the Budapest, a city of Hungary where the cakes is so delicious and simple. Thank you for the review.
It makes you want to go there ! very detailed... maybe too much ! a teeny bit too long, if I had seen it in a magazine I wouldn't have read it ! maybe I'm just lazy :P
Not much to mention. Very well written. Maybe a little lone compared to other reviews? But I do like detailed explanantion.
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