Dianda's Italian-American Pastry

2006 | Best Bakery, San Francisco

We haven't been able to eat our way through the hundreds of cakes, cookies, and pastries available at this venerable place, but what we have tasted is so uniformly delicious that we're willing to try. Everything made with either of Dianda's two specialties -- high-quality almond paste and a particularly fragrant rum custard -- is irresistible, whether the almond torte (available whole or by the slice), the almond horseshoe cookie dusted with toasted nuts and dipped in chocolate at... More »