Best Tea Cake - Best of New York Food (2006)

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Best Tea Cake

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202 Café

75 Ninth Ave., 646-638-1173

As you might expect from a proper British operation, Nicole Farhi's in-store café excels at teatime treats like scones and Chelsea buns, all available to go from the tantalizing takeout counter. The tea cake—a subtly spiced confection that could potentially usurp the dominant position of coffee cake hereabouts—is what hooks us: moist and tender, enriched with almond flour, and garnished with caramelized apples and slivered almonds. Whole cake available by special order.

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From the 2006 Best of New York issue of New York Magazine

Competition breeds the best. If only one pizzeria existed in New York, of course, there’d be no real winning slice. Thankfully, we’ll never know what that sorry situation tastes like, since pizza—like dance parties, dog runs, and fried chicken—has to evolve upward here.

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