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Rustica

3220 W. Lake St.

Minneapolis , MN , United States http://www.rusticabakery.com/

(612) 822-1119

Led by head baker Tammy Hoyt, the team at this independent neighborhood bakery crafts homemade breads and pastries using high-quality ingredients and traditional, labor-intensive methods. The result is an award-winning array of baguettes, olive rolls, chocolate croissants, lemon tarts, and ginger cookies. Rustica also offers rotating daily specials, such as egg braids and Italian pugliese bread. Set in the Calhoun Village shopping center, the bakery is spacious and minimally adorned, save for the glass cases brimming with cherry frangipani and bittersweet chocolate shortbread.

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From Food & Wine , JUN 2005

Only early risers get a crack at the popular Cañadas de Azucar, a thin, soft, Spanish-inspired flatbread drizzled with olive oil and flecked with sugar—and it's not unusual for the other 10 or so varieties of hand-formed, hearth-baked breads to sell out on weekends....MORE
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