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News Sat Jun 30 2007
3 New Bakeries near Wicker Park
• Sweet Cakes Bakery is now open, friendlily serving vegan and non-vegan cookies, scones, cupcakes and more behind an open door in a wooden wall along the sidewalk at 935 N. Damen Avenue. A large patio hides inside, including a 7-foot or so tall tower of increasingly small metal Tonka-like trucks (photo), as you walk back toward the bakery. Their vegan chocolate chip cookie (photo) has a good outside crunch with a tender inner chew and chips small enough to easily melt in the mouth. It costs one dollar. They brew Casteel Coffee, roasted in Evanston. Closed Mondays. Tuesday - Sunday 8 a.m. - 6 p.m.
• Lovely, "a bake shop", opened today at 1130 N. Milwaukee (photo) with homey tables and stools along a bar (photo). Monday - Friday 7 a.m. - 7 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. - 6 p.m., Sunday 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
• The Division Street favorite, Milk & Honey is opening a bakeshop in July at 1543 N. Damen. Time Out Chicago this week says we can expect mostly takeaway but a few stools, with cakes, cookies, focaccia, panini and salads. Meanwhile, Milk & Honey's Web site announces a Milk and Honey Granola at 1520 N. Damen, the address of the closed and boarded Del Toro.
