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4470 Arco Ave. St. Louis, MO 63110

314-534-1699 

http://www.ladolceviabakery.com  

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4470 Arco Ave. St. Louis MO 63110

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  • American, Bakery, Breakfast, Brunch, Contemporary
    Sun 10am-3pm, Wed-Thu 9am-6pm, Fri-Sat 9am-10pm
    $$$ $$, $$$
  • MasterCard, Visa, cash, check, ATM/Debit
    Casual attire
    Catering, Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Smoking, Takeout
  • Breakfast, Brunch, Dinner, Lunch
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Long lauded for its bread, brunches and decadent desserts, La Dolce Via now offers dinner on Friday and Saturday evenings. Chef Ramon Cuffie, formerly of Bar Italia and Jaboni's Bistro, selects the freshest produce, seafood and meat from local markets, then prepares each to highlight its natural flavor. The menu changes constantly; standouts have included rich, meltingly tender king salmon in a buttery sweet split-pea broth and a chicken confit that packs the flavor of a whole roasted bird into a leg and thigh. What Cuffie's menu lacks in breadth it more than makes up for in quality - and with one of La Dolce Via's indulgent tortes or cheesecakes awaiting you at the end of your journey, you can't go wrong.








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  • December 2012 Openings & Closings

    December 2012 Openings & Closings

    By Ian Froeb | Wed, January 02, 2013

    I'll begin this accounting of last year's final month with a restaurant that technically closed this month -- yesterday, in fact: La Dolce Via. The Forest Park Southeast bakery, winner of multiple Bes... More »

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  • Report: La Dolce Via Closing at End of Year [Updated]

    Report: La Dolce Via Closing at End of Year [Updated]

    By Ian Froeb | Mon, August 27, 2012

    Updated with comments from owner Marcia Sindel after the jump. Per St. Louis Magazine, the restaurant and bakery La Dolce Via (4470 Arco Avenue; 314-534-1699) has announced via its e-mail newsletter ... More »

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  • mldavis2
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    | MO | 2 Reviews

    5
    | Thu, April 12, 2012

    I've never had a dish here I didn't love. Even the berries and cream are somehow better there than anywhere else. If you go to brunch and you're not a vegetarian, the biscuits and gravy made with lamb sausage and cheddar scones are a must try.

  • rftbestof
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    | St Lous, MO | 149 Reviews

    4
    | Wed, May 6, 2009

    Although the decadent brownies and cakes sold at La Dolce Via ensure that the restaurant lives up to its name — translation: "the sweet way" — the corner spot's weekend brunch menu really hits the sweet spot. A bowl of peaches and cream is sublime; the tartness of the fruit only faintly muted by the rich dairy. Blueberry pancakes are so sweet and tangy that the maple syrup and dollop of butter are unnecessary. (The contrast in flavors between plump blackberries and raspberries and the doughy scone is just as tantalizing.) And then there are the egg scrambles, which often feature unorthodox ingredients — thin medallions of squash, Gruyère cheese, exotic mushrooms — that never disappoint. More important than food is atmosphere, though — and La Dolce Via has that in spades, from the calming morning music (everything from subtle indie rockers like the Shins and Joanna Newsom to rocker Janis Joplin) to the cheerful mix of neighborhood characters, college students and families lingering over coffee and food. To treat yourself to brunch at La Dolce Via is to treat yourself to one of the city's sweetest, most unpretentious institutions.

  • emko18
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    | st. louis, MO | 271 Reviews

    4
    | Tue, March 30, 2010

    Great little bakery! Located near the ever growing Grove Neighborhood.

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  • 2012 | Best Breakfast

    For the past ten years, La Dolce Via has been one of the best-kept secrets on the St. Louis restaurant scene. Tucked away in a quiet corner of Forest Park Southeast, a few blocks from the Grove's main drag, it isn't the sort of place you stumble across. But for those lucky enough to have found it, La Dolce Via has become a destination: a place to take out-of-town guests, a place to celebrate surviving a really terrible Saturday night, a place to go when you feel like eating really good food.... More »

  • 2011 | Best Use of Leftovers

    A few years back, we declared La Dolce Via's Friday and Saturday dinners the city's "Best-Kept Secret (Restaurant Division)." And so they remain. (You, dear reader, can fix that!) But we're not here today to talk about those secret dinners. We're here to talk about the leftovers from those secret dinners, those succulent bits of sausage and cheese and fish and vegetables. What do you do with leftovers? You can eat them in the middle of the night. Or, if you own a restaurant, you can group... More »

  • 2010 | Best Pancakes

    It is an incredibly sad thing that La Dolce Via only serves brunch on Saturdays and Sundays. But let's stop yearning for what we can't have and learn to appreciate the good things in life. Like that for two days a week, we get to eat brunch at La Dolce Via! In the past year, owner Marcia Sindel has expanded the café's brunch offerings. Now, in addition to egg scrambles and biscuits and gravy there are waffles and a wider selection of pancakes. La Dolce Via has always done a splendid... More »

  • 2009 | Best Scones

    Precious little separates a scone from a stone. There's that one pesky letter. And something else that has caused so many otherwise-competent bakers to put a tray of scones in the oven and pull out a tray of stones. What is it? Over-kneading? Subpar ingredients? Bad karma? Whatever the scone/stone distinguishing factor is, Marcia Sindel has it down cold, and she's not telling anybody. Her scones look round and firm, but inside they're light and crumbly and unmatched anywhere in St. Louis.... More »

  • 2008 | Best Sunday Brunch

    Although the decadent brownies and cakes sold at La Dolce Via ensure that the restaurant lives up to its name -- translation: "the sweet way" -- the corner spot's weekend brunch menu really hits the sweet spot. A bowl of peaches and cream is sublime; the tartness of the fruit only faintly muted by the rich dairy. Blueberry pancakes are so sweet and tangy that the maple syrup and dollop of butter are unnecessary. (The contrast in flavors between plump blackberries and raspberries... More »

  • 2007 | Best Kept Secret (Restaurant Division)

    Remarkably, La Dolce Via remains open for dinner only twice a week. This must mean our plan is working! Once we sampled chef Ramon Cuffie's brief, market-driven menu, we knew we didn't want to share it with anyone else. It's an informal meal, the "dining room" very much the café that La Dolce Via usually is, the wine served in juice glasses. But you won't notice once Cuffie's dishes arrive. On our visits, we've enjoyed a brilliant pairing of salmon and split-pea broth, deeply flavored... More »

  • 2006 | Best Sunday Brunch

    Dunno why, but every time we eat Sunday brunch at La Dolce Via (which is more than a few times a year), we act out the same sequence of events in the same order, á la Groundhog Day. First we drive around looking for a parking spot, marveling at how it's become harder and harder to find one, idiotically refusing to acknowledge that this area has become hot. Then we run over to the sidewalk seating and are puzzled to see that all of the tables are taken, because it seems the last time we were h... More »

  • 2006 | Best Indulgence

    You know you shouldn't. You just came in for the scone. But oh, dear God, that blackberry is the size of a golf ball! And it's swimming in cool white cream. A rather large bowl of cream, in fact. And in there too are raspberries, little tart cups of delight soaking cream into their hollows, and thick-sliced strawberries (so red! so ripe!), and blueberries: Is it legal to grow them that big? Did we mention that it's all organic? It looks like Heaven. Go ahead and order it. But it's $8.50, you... More »

  • 2004 | Best Bakery

    Little bits of Americana we wish weren't endangered species: Delivered milk. Uniformed gas-station attendants. Dressing up nice when traveling by air. The neighborhood bakery. Luckily, that last one can be easily found in St. Louis, on a tree-canopied corner in Forest Park Southeast. La Dolce Via offers ridiculously friendly service and a ridiculous array of Italian and American baked goods: cinnamon rolls, birthday cakes, tiramisu, zabaglione, Key lime meringue pie.... Of course,... More »

  • 2003 | Best Bakery

    When deciding on the best bakery in town, leave it to the experts; Bar Italia, perhaps St. Louis' most perennially favorite restaurant for twenty years running, gets its bread from La Dolce Via, while Best New Restaurant JaBoni's orders both its bread and desserts from here. Both a neighborhood nosh spot and a primo carb-baking factory, La Dolce Via -- which got its start back in the early 1980s as an offshoot of the aforementioned Bar Italia -- humbly occupies a corner storefront on the... More »

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