Caffé Falai, located on Lafayette and Bleecker, third and most recent Falai establishment that is owned by Iacopo Falai. I have chosen this place to eat for lunch not primarily for the real food but more in the desserts arena since, if you haven’t noticed, I love desserts, and many food lovers claimed that he creates awesome baked goods. So why not go there?This place is actually a small café. There’s ten tables and the bar, as seating area. The open kitchen is extremely small that I wonder sometimes how can they create such exquisite looking and more importantly, tasting food.
The interior is done entirely in white. The walls, floor, tables, chairs and the bar is white. The chandeliers that hang above the bar are beautiful; it reminds me of a miniature version from Anthropologie. (Yes, I know I have a strange addiction to Anthropologie.)
The service is really awful. Right from the very start from seating myself to the actual ordering, it took my waitress a good five minutes. There were two waitresses in the beginning, the one she had seem to do the most work, yet works in a passive attentive way. To clarify that, if she is at your table you will have her attention for that minute, after that you will be tentatively ignored unless you call her attention or she will appear at your table five to ten minutes later. Other service flaws, even though I ordered from a savory pastry and a cake, I was not served any bread. I realized that much later on after I finished my cake.
The pastry/dessert menu (Click on the photo for a slightly larger view)
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