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The shop

We bake everything that morning. There is no freezer here, so nothing in the case survives into the next day.

The croissants are rolled by hand

From a kitchen at home

A whole cake, before it is cut

We started in a home kitchen, with orders for neighbours and birthday cakes for the block. For about two years the work happened on the dining table.

Since 2019 we have had the shop on Popa Nan. We start at five in the morning and put out about twenty kinds a day, depending on what looks good at the market. Apricots and raspberries in summer, apples and walnuts in winter.

From six in the evening we sell whatever is left at half price, and by seven the case is empty. Anything that still has not gone we take to the neighbourhood soup kitchen the next morning.

Who works here

  • Ioana MierlaOpened the shop. She makes the cakes and the sponges.
  • Alex DobreIn at five in the morning. Doughs, puff pastry and croissants.
  • Cristina PopWith us since 2022. Decoration, macarons, and she keeps track of the cake orders.

I ordered the cake four years running for the same birthday. A different one each time, and good each time.

Andreea Vasilescu, client din 2020

I come round about half six for what is left. Half price, and made that same morning.

Mihai Rusu, client din 2021

I once asked what was in the cream and got an answer on the spot, without anyone checking a list.

Elena Dobrin, client din 2019

A good cake gets ordered on Tuesday

Two days ahead, three if it is for more than twenty people.