Address: 1795 Commercial Dr, Vancouver BC
Website: http://www.fratellibakery.com/
Style: Italian
Price: $$
Fratelli's (or Fratelli, depending on whether you go with online or in-store signage) is an - authentic - Italian bakery that has a large selection of cakes, pastries, and sweets you'd expect from your Italian bakery. Of course, the addition of not so authentic items like brownies, cupcakes, flans, cookies and loaf cakes make it more an Italian-Canadian bakery (especially when I think the latter far exceeds the Italian pastries in-store), but let's not get into the particulars.
Going with that Italian theme, I chose the tiramisu tart. This was a unique take on the tiramisu, with a cheesy filling inside (and on top) a tart shell. It definitely got bonus points for appearance; it's quite nice. However, the tart was a bit pasty and the cheese cream swirl lacked the traditional tiramisu liquor punch. The coffee and dusting of cocoa still gave it that typical tiramisu flavour, but that paired with a lack of those cream and soaked savoiardi layers made the tiramisu one dimensional. Good, but not fantastic... or should I say fantastico. ;)
Rating: **1/2
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