A Carroll Gardens Italian Counter Baking Since 1948
Line up for warm lobster tails and cannoli at a Carroll Gardens Italian counter that has baked since 1948.
🥐 The lobster tail
The case runs the length of the shop, stacked with Italian cookies, sfogliatelle, cannoli filled to order, and trays of Italian ices in the warm months. The lobster tail is the draw, a shatter-crisp shell of layered pastry piled with sweet cream. People carry out white boxes tied with string, and the counter still moves at an old-school pace. The bakery has held this corner at 298 Court Street from 1948 onward, and little about it has changed. Weekend mornings bring a line that spills toward the sidewalk and moves faster than it looks.
