Court Pastry Shop
“I am going to try Rispoli's again and compare, but for now Court Street gets 5 stars for the best Lobster Tail ever.”
“Don't let it's appearance fool you; they make some of the best sfogliatelle, italian ices, flag cookies, and cannoli.”
“They also have fantastic sfogliatelle (awesome slightly chewy/light texture) and rainbow cookies.”
Court Pastry Shop
Take-out: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
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$ Price range Inexpensive
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Pretty average Italian bakery.
They offer a wide variety of baked goods typical of many Italian bakeries and I've had the good fortune of sampling many of their offerings. If I had to pick a strength, it would be the pastries; the cannoli are generously sized and the cream was good – it tastes like they add a hint of cinnamon in the cream which makes them stand out compared to cannoli from other bakeries. The sfogliatelle are pretty good as well – the outside was flaky and the filling had a perfect consistency, sometimes I find sfogliatelle filling too dry but Court does it justice. I haven't tried their famous lobster tail but I plan to in the future. Their cookies are just okay – some are better than others. I liked their rainbow and pinoli cookies, but the rest were pretty average. Not the best Italian cookies I've had but not the worst.
While the pastries are pretty good, the cookies leave something to be desired – and I find their baked goods as a whole to be a tad unrefined. I've had worse, but I've had better.
Good bakery.
The "Lobster Tail" pastry is worth the entire price of admission. They actually sell out, so come before noon. Cannoli are very good: chocolate or vanilla. Eclairs too.
They have ices in the summer. Supposedly top shelf. I've seen the stand, I've never had one.
G Train is close by. Good coffee across the street.
Girls behind the counter are nice enough but they are on autopilot. They've been doing this a long time. Be nice to them and they will be nice to you.
If you're in Carroll Gardens, good old school Italian bakery.
Highly recommended.
Love the Italian ices here!, custard, yum. chocolate, yum!
Court is now in session!
(Please be seated)
The Crime – Quality Control
I walk into the bakery Friday afternoon. No one is in the shop to put any pressure on the counterperson or the baker demanding italian baked goods.
I'm in heaven! (So I thought)
When you walk into a bakery, the smell of baked goods should be over powering. To me, I turn into Gollum, my precious….
So I have a visual, I have the bakery smells. I'm on a sensory overload on two of my five senses.
I ask, do you have any cassata cake? No no, only cheesecake
I see $7.95 per pound of cookies. I'll have a pound of mixed sesame cookies, two lobs-sta tails and in a bag, one cannoli and one sfogliatelle.
My son and I run out of the store all giddy. (Actually, I was giddy)
We get in the car and I rip open the bag like a crazy person.
I bite into the cannoli.
Meh.
A good cannoli should have a snap in the shell. The shell wasn't mushy from sitting but it wasn't snappy either.
We trade. I bite into the sfogliatelle. There's no crunch. When you bite into a sfogliatelle, the texture should be flaky and crunchy on the first bite. It interior tasted like it should, its not stale just not crunchy.
After dinner, I serve the lobster tails as well as the cookies.
The lobster tails are the same as the sfogliatelle, No crunch. And the cookies?
I'm seeing a few sesame cookies that are almost BURNT on the bottom.
Court decides, guilty as charged.
I see older pictures behind the register, maybe the owners are snow birds and left the shop to people that don't hold the same business standard as they did.
And I will not be putting Court Pastry Shop in my baked goods list.
Not a fan and never again.
My girlfriend recently got me a bag of cookies and sweets. I'm enjoying them as I write this review and I have to say even after a day they still taste darn good. The almond cookies aren't too sweet or overpowering. I polished off the entire bag in 5 mins and I want more. I was a little let down to know they didn't have almond horns or perhaps they sold out. I'm not a big fan of eclairs and none will change my mind but!!! the filling was very fresh in this eclair. I need to come back and try the Italian ices and some fresh baked pies/cakes!
Five stars for their cinnamon chip cannoli. I don't even care for cannoli usually but Court Pastry's version is perfect. The shell is nice and crunchy and the ricotta filling is not too heavy and has a great hint of citrus and spice. Chocolate chip cannoli are very common but cinnamon chip ones are not as easy to find so these are a great treat. Better than Mike's Pastry in Boston!
Review is only for their Italian ices, which they start to serve in April. So hard to find a place with a good old fashioned fresh ice served in paper cup like I used to have as a kid in the Bronx. Got 2 flavors in a small (but large!) – lemon and chocolate — didn't taste artificial. Would definitely return for the ice!
Everyone should have their day in Court.
Actually, you should also have your day on a sunbed if you're a little Pasty. It's good for you. Unfortunately there's no tanning at the Court Pasty Shop, because it's actually Pastry, not Pasty. Who knew. But if it makes you feel any better, a lot of the customers are pasty.
A friend who loves cannoli and I, ordered the cannoli, and shared it. It was cheap, filling, cheerful, and very tasty. I can't give it a 5 star because it's right down the road from Villabate Alba and Cannoli Plus, which for me are not only the best in NYC, but the best cannolis in the entire USA.
Nevertheless, if you're a fan of cannoli, stop in here. And if you like bakeries in general, come by and give them a try. You might fall in love.
If not with the pastries, then with me.
And if not with me, then definitely with my kitten Starlight.
And then we'll end up getting married. Then we'll break up because I suck.
And then we'll end up in Court, battling over the custody of Starlight.
See how everything goes round in circles? You start off in Court. You end up in Court.