Cafes in Garden City

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Tasty Crêpes's capable crepe craftsmen flip sweet and savory griddle cakes, artfully dressing them in delectable toppings that include local and sustainable fruits and vegetables. Strolling down a cafeteria-style line, patrons belly up to the serving counter to admire cooks as they sizzle traditional or whole-wheat batter on hot plates and then shout out specialty ingredients to customize their edible pouch. In honey-mustard crepes ($6.50), chicken, honey mustard, and herb crème shimmy through fluffy caverns, and chocolate brownies and bananas sweetly cohabitate inside the Brownie Passion crepe ($5.50). For satiating self-expression, diners can color a plain flour canvas ($3.99) with an assortment of cheese, meat, fruit, and nut toppings ($1 each). To wash tender morsels down hatches, nibblers can sip a 100% juice fruit smoothie—a much safer way to get your daily dosage of fruit than ransacking a still-life art class.

55 Old Country Rd
Carle Place,

Cuisine Type: Italian, pizzeria, gourmet food
Established: 1972
Reservations: Not offered
Handicap Accessible: Yes
Number of Tables: 5–10
Parking: Parking lot
Kid-friendly: Yes
Alcohol: None
Delivery / Take-out Available: Yes
Outdoor Seating: No

295 Warner Ave
Roslyn Heights,


902 Hempstead Tpke
Franklin Square,

Bagel Club's expansive menu ranges beyond its titular baked good, encompassing specialties such as pretzels and raisin-studded challah bread. Chefs also pile smoked fish—including sturgeon and lox—atop bagels, crack three eggs for each of their omelets, and fill sandwiches with deli meat or seafood salads. They can also add flavor to bagels or depleted scratch 'n' sniff stickers with more than a dozen specialty spreads, including chocolate-chip, spinach-and-garlic, and blueberry varieties of cream cheese.

20521 35th Ave

Each morning, the bakers at Gourmet Bake Shop fill pan after pan with large batches of dough, kicking off the process of baking fresh, piping-hot breads, pastries, and cakes. After cooling, cake rounds are stacked with layers of fruit fillings, topped with buttercream frosting, and sometimes carved into a custom shape such as a champagne bottle, heart, or Dora the Explorer. The shop also whips up Italian and French pastries and seven-layer cakes, which dazzle palates and geologists with a variety of cakes and fillings in each bite.

775 Hillside Ave
New Hyde Park,

Indecisive appetites will be sated by the selection of breakfast, burgers, pasta, and more at Post Ave Cafe. Like putting a grocery-store conveyor belt in a pair of tights and sending it on a world-saving mission, the overstuffed hot heroes—including the potato and egg ($7.25) or the shrimp parmigiana ($8.95)—burst with a lineup of ingredients. The Greek burger sandwiches hunger with a 6-ounce beef patty topped by feta cheese and tomatoes on an English muffin with Greek salad, coleslaw, and pickles ($8.95). The pasta-with-seafood combination hooks a meal-worthy menagerie of mussels, clams, and shrimp splashed in a garlic-and-white-wine sauce, just like bringing seasoning to the local aquarium ($16.95). The meat averse can cut their teeth on a veggie whole-wheat wrap, stuffed with grilled broccoli, spinach, onions, mushrooms, and pesto sauce before leafing through a tossed salad ($8.95), and breakfast visitors are treated to Uncle Vinny's favorite omelette, an egg amalgamation of sausage, bacon, and American cheese flanked by a short stack of pancakes ($8.95).

173 Post Ave