Alcove Cafe & Bakery

Alcove Cafe & Bakery has a lemon blueberry cake thats sugary and and spongy with an occasional hint of lemon and ping of blueberry. The cake part is sponge and part poundcake with a bit of a lift. Yes its moist, and tries to be fluffy. The frosting is a bland white sugar with no depth and only a pasty dense and granulated texture. It's such a let down because the design of the cake is so bold beautful with an organic cascading frost falling off the sides. Then you bite into this decadent treatment of what we recognize as cake,expecting the sweet fireworks to trigger pleasure. Low and behold, a shocking let down of ... it looks like cake, acts like cake, smells like cake... then caboom. You are sweeping your foodybootie up for a rebound cuz it can't be true. How could something so pretty from a trendy little place like Alcove Cafe & Bakery be so wrong in flavor. It can't be a show.. really. So, we kept tasting and it only got worse. Alcove we love you and your pretty desserts. Get the patisserie chef to line up the beauty with some taste to rave about citywide~




Alcove Cafe & Bakery
1929 Hillhurst Ave (Cross Street: Franklin Avenue)
Los Angeles, CA 90027-2711View Map
(323) 644-0100
http://alcovecafe.com/