Interurban Café and Pastry Shop
Maple Bacon Bread Pudding
Pumpkin Spice Cupcake
Red Velvet Cupcake
Canele
Pumpkin Whoopie Pie
Apple Pop Tart
Pear Pop Tart
Pineapple Upside Down Cake
When Lao’s dessert selection failed to wow my mother and Cone was inexplicably closed it was my sister who piped up suggesting a Portland-esque food-window whose name she couldn’t quite remember known for serving homemade pop-tarts, a quick search indicating suggesting “Interurban” to be the place and leading us up to Lincoln Park where a fifteen minute emergency-flasher ‘parking space’ in front of the now closed Charlie Trotter’s landed us a variety of sweets ranging from classic to contemporary and delicious to dreadful. Friendly in service and largely focused on American kitchen classics such as cupcakes and whoopee pies it was in these items that the small bakery excelled, the cakes moist and the frostings flavorful, and moving onward to the chilled bread pudding which was subsequently warmed in the microwave the trend continued, the texture dense but smooth with sweet and salty in admirable balance, though the bacon was decidedly limp. Moving next to the pop tarts, more ‘toaster strudel’ and soft than toasty and crisp both of the items would prove amply fruity if not particularly rave-worthy and rounding out the selections with an upside down cake that tasted more like sugar than pineapple it was the spongy, flavorless canele that truly appalled – a veritable disaster on all fronts and particularly when compared to the textbook version at Dillman’s just 6 hours earlier.
