And it all tastes as good as it looks

The display case at Crixa features a rotating, though always marvelous, multi-ethnic selection of pies, cakes, tarts, cookies, rolls, and pastries. Miniature Boston Cream pies, Poppy seed rugelach, flourless chocolate cake, thick slices of moist ginger cake, cherry-pink Hungarian Puncs Torta, New Orleans Bourbon Cake, Lemon Cream cakes adorned with white flowers, sweet Russian tea buns, sugared crescents of tender kifli, and lovely spheres of vanilla meringue with cream are among the numerous options available, all reasonably priced from two to five dollars. And it all tastes as good as it looks.

Read more about gastronomic covetousness and the impending battle for pie in the Daily Californian review of Crixa, Mmm...Cake, by Connie Lee, published November 9, 2006.