{"id":475822,"date":"2025-12-27T22:39:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T22:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/475822\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T22:39:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T22:39:20","slug":"circos-is-nycs-best-italian-american-bakery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/475822\/","title":{"rendered":"Circo\u2019s Is NYC\u2019s Best Italian American Bakery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/circospastryshop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Circo\u2019s Pastry Shop<\/a> is a precious vestige of what the bakery <a href=\"https:\/\/circospastryshop.com\/pages\/about-us?srsltid=AfmBOoolZqMXIKHEIT11rrtJ6hv16VVogbgk-5BqXfEM_ImguPqidZrN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calls<\/a> \u201cthe old neighborhood\u201d of Bushwick, a relic from a time when mom-and-pop shops were thriving there. Founded in 1945 by two bakers from Sicily, it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/circospastryshop.com\/pages\/about-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">still a family-operated<\/a>, American Italian joint \u2014 find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DRm7mkrkUmP\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nonno Nino in the kitchen<\/a>, hard at work on orders \u2014 specializing in pignolata (honey balls) and cannolis, and a broader range of Linzer tarts, croissants, and cookies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Circo\u2019s is a goldmine for traditional Italian American baked goods. When I need a beautiful birthday cake, day-of, I can rely on the tres leches, which is light and creamy (without running over with too much liquid). When I need to order a christening cake in the shape of a giant gold cross, I can head to Circo\u2019s. When I fly home for the holidays, I scoop a pre-wrapped cookie platter of Italian rainbow cookies and raspberry linzer tart cookies \u2014 which I call \u201cthe mother-in-law pleaser.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">There\u2019s no dine-in seating, but it\u2019s a fun place to take kids. The staff uses old-school, ceiling-fasted string dispensers to tie up the bakery\u2019s blue-and-white floral motif boxes.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Circo\u2019s Pastry Shop is a precious vestige of what the bakery calls \u201cthe old neighborhood\u201d of Bushwick, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":475823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,174767,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-475822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dining-reports","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115793937282643846","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}