"The pastry case at La Cabra in the East Village is chock-full of cardamom buns, plain and specialty croissants, and danishes, with more layers than a style influencer’s get-ready-with-me TikTok in winter. The lighter-than-air pastry gives you 1/100th of a second of blissfully crunchy resistance when you bite through it, then disintegrates into a buttered cloud. The cross-section looks like a Fibonacci spiral, and there’s a light note of browned butter that nicely differentiates this one." - willa moore, bryan kim, sonal shah, will hartman