Hidden dessert gem in Little Italy is charming
Vaccarro's pastry café is the perfect place to enjoy an after-dinner treat or stuff yourself silly with the Monday all-you-can-eat
Baltimore's Little Italy is known for its small local-owned cafés cooking up some amazing authentic Italian foods. Vaccarro's, a local specialty pastry-and-coffee shop, is no exception.
Located just a few blocks from the Inner Harbor on Albemarle Avenue, Vaccarro's is quite the place to go if you're looking for a quick fix for your sweet tooth or something to quench your most sugary cravings.
Vaccarro's has been a Baltimore-based café from the start, when Italian confectioner Gioacchino Vaccaro first emmigrated from Italy in 1956 and set up the pastry shop. It's a family business. Giacchino's son currently runs the place.
Over the past 50 years, it has grown, and now the chain has five other mini-cafés in the Maryland-Washington, D.C. area. But their main kitchen is still located right in Little Italy.
Just taking a peek at their menu will be more than enough to make you salivate, if merely entering and taking a whiff of the smells from their kitchen didn't already. Cakes, gelatos, tiramisu, filled cookies, cream puffs, strong espressos and cappuccinos are just a small sampling of their many treats.
Oh, and you can't forget their famous homemade cannolis, so good that they even give you the option to ship a dozen to a friend anywhere in the U.S. With all of these delicious choices, it can be very difficult to settle on just one dessert.
So why not have it all? Perhaps the most unique aspect about Vaccarro's is their Monday night special: "All-You-Can-Eat Dessert and Coffee," every week from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. For a fixed price of $15.50, you have three hours to enjoy not just one or two, but as many of their delicious Italian treats as your stomach can fill. Hard to top that, isn't it?
There is a catch, however; it is not your typical buffet-style pile-your-plate-high restaurant. Vaccarro's still maintains an atmosphere of a high-class Italian café on Monday nights instead of becoming just a buffet. Though the desserts are unlimited, you can only have one pastry and one drink at a time.
Located just a few blocks from the Inner Harbor on Albemarle Avenue, Vaccarro's is quite the place to go if you're looking for a quick fix for your sweet tooth or something to quench your most sugary cravings.
Vaccarro's has been a Baltimore-based café from the start, when Italian confectioner Gioacchino Vaccaro first emmigrated from Italy in 1956 and set up the pastry shop. It's a family business. Giacchino's son currently runs the place.
Over the past 50 years, it has grown, and now the chain has five other mini-cafés in the Maryland-Washington, D.C. area. But their main kitchen is still located right in Little Italy.
Just taking a peek at their menu will be more than enough to make you salivate, if merely entering and taking a whiff of the smells from their kitchen didn't already. Cakes, gelatos, tiramisu, filled cookies, cream puffs, strong espressos and cappuccinos are just a small sampling of their many treats.
Oh, and you can't forget their famous homemade cannolis, so good that they even give you the option to ship a dozen to a friend anywhere in the U.S. With all of these delicious choices, it can be very difficult to settle on just one dessert.
So why not have it all? Perhaps the most unique aspect about Vaccarro's is their Monday night special: "All-You-Can-Eat Dessert and Coffee," every week from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. For a fixed price of $15.50, you have three hours to enjoy not just one or two, but as many of their delicious Italian treats as your stomach can fill. Hard to top that, isn't it?
There is a catch, however; it is not your typical buffet-style pile-your-plate-high restaurant. Vaccarro's still maintains an atmosphere of a high-class Italian café on Monday nights instead of becoming just a buffet. Though the desserts are unlimited, you can only have one pastry and one drink at a time.
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