2097 Italian Pastries in London

Can anyone recommend a baker or Italian speciality store in London where I could buy Italian pastries (more particularly sfogliatelle) or biscuits?

Even something like buccellato (a Sicilian Speciality) or Struffoli (Neopolitan) would be great.

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Try Amato in Old Compton Street Soho. Fantastic cakes and pastries.

Dawn.

[QUOTE=Dawn]Try Amato in Old Compton Street Soho. Fantastic cakes and pastries.

Dawn.[/QUOTE]

Thanks!

Coincidentally, Amato is my mother's maiden name...

Hi Dawn,

I just rang Amato's and they do sfogliatelle every Saturday!

Whoohoo!

Great! If you have time have a coffe and cake, and there cinnamon toast is to die for.

Dawn.

[QUOTE=Dawn]Great! If you have time have a coffe and cake, and there cinnamon toast is to die for.

Dawn.[/QUOTE]

There is always time for a coffee and cake... Will drag my mother down there for a treat one day. I am assuming they will be open on Christmas Eve?

after the cinnamon cake you must have the chocolate cake

[QUOTE=Sano]Hi Dawn,

I just rang Amato's and they do sfogliatelle every Saturday!

Whoohoo![/QUOTE]

Sorry to be naive, I know that sfogliatelle is a type of pastry, but what type?

[QUOTE=Susan P]Sorry to be naive, I know that sfogliatelle is a type of pastry, but what type?[/QUOTE]

The best type!

The pastry is very light, the filling is sweetened ricotta with a touch of nutmeg, or is it cinnamon? Either way, it is lovely.

This will give you an idea, though the shape of these is not as I remember them from Naples where they were scallop shaped:

[url]http://www.gennarino.org/sfogliatelle.htm[/url]