When we walked into this West Village pastry shop the first time, we had no idea of the history. To us it was just Rocco's, a convenient place to order dessert after eating a pizza at John's down the street. In fact, it was Rocco's Pastry Shop & Espresso Cafe. It was a neighborhood bakery with classic Italian pastries that could have easily given Ferrara's a run for its money. Some of the recipes are over 100 years old.
Pasticceria Rocco Website
Whether you come in for coffee and dessert or just a quick treat to go, the selection of cookies, cakes, cheesecakes, pastries and Italian specialty items will feed your fancy while you wait in line. Rum Baba and Cannoli are only two of the old world recipes that are prepared daily. Every neighborhood should be lucky enough to have a bakery like this and a family dedicated to keeping it producing such recipes.
It was so difficult to choose between cakes with butter cream or dairy whipped cream frostings. But select we did and we ended up with plenty of whipped cream in the form of a raspberry cream pie, liberally laced with chocolate. One can't go to New York without trying the cheese cakes, so the second selection was a very light, cheese cake with fresh fruit on top. We were happy to see that they also would serve us a steamed milk, and in this case, it was mixed with an almond syrup. Magnolia Bakery was up the street. Strolling along, it was easy to take a look at their nationally famous cupcakes, but when it came time for dessert we headed straight to Rocco's.
| 243 Bleeker St New York NY (212) 242-6031 |
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