"This review is over 3 months late, but I needed to register the fabulous experience my husband and I had with Café Patoro. I was getting married in April and was looking for a café or bakery in NY that could make Brazilian desserts for my wedding when I stumbled upon Café Patoro's website after a search. My husband and I decided to visit their café and try the food and after loving their brigadeiro, and their cake I emailed them to inquire about catering the desserts for our wedding. Ah La, the owner was great at getting back to me and we set up a date to meet and discuss options. When we met, she impressed me beyond words. Not only she had a full list of traditional Brazilian desserts, but she had detailed descriptions of what each one was made of and would give us comments about how easy it is to get certain ingredients here and sometimes what substitutions she recommended. My husband and I left with a full list of desserts to choose from and all the possible combinations that we could put together for our wedding. We then gave her our selection and scheduled the tasting. As I had expected, the tasting was wonderful and she was even able to pull off the Bem-Casados that we had requested as our wedding favors. We locked our options after the tasting and from there Ah La took care of every single detail of the preparation and the delivery. She handled everything, from the little cup holders, the wrappings, she even made the instructions with step-by-step on how to set up our passion fruit parfait for our Caterer. Ah La's sense of professionalism and business is unbelievable. She pays attention to every detail and puts her heart into making it the best. On the wedding day, the desserts were a huge success! Everyone loved it and even the non-Brazilians were raving about how wonderful and fun was to taste a dessert options so unique and delicious. And the Bem-Casados came out wonderful. I had so many guests telling me how impressed they were with it. I have to say that those were probably the best ones I've ever had. Working with Ah La and Café Patoro for our wedding was an amazing experience, even though it was the first time she was catering some of the desserts on our list, I had no doubt that she was going to do a great job and that it would come out great. Her professionalism and being on top of her business, made the process fun and seamless. I cannot thank them enough for their wonderful service and the beyond amazing quality of desserts. Ah La and her team made the dessert vision for our wedding become a reality!! :"
