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NOW OPEN: Cake and the Beanstalk
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NOW OPEN: Cake and the Beanstalk
On March 1, Daniel Klein, a longtime baker who's put in pastry time at Striped Bass, Circa, Morimoto, Le Bec-Fin and Twenty21, took over what was Flying Monkey Deuce (1112 Locust St.) to open Cake and the Beanstalk, fulfilling his lifelong goal of running his own joint.
Klein, a Penn State hospitality grad, is keeping things simple to start out, offering house specialties like his banana/chocolate/walnut cake, chocolate/pecan/almond "tree nut" cookies (he also crushes these up for his cheesecake crusts), Chestnut Hill coffee and gigantic one-pound brownies, with or without walnuts ("If it's a $2.50 brownie, I want to make sure it's worth that $2.50," says Klein.) He'll soon begin offering a small selection of panini (on Le Bus bread) and salads, as well.
The seating/layout of Flying Monkey is pretty much the same. Klein's mostly tweaked out the décor — check out all the "Jack and the Beanstalk"-themed art on the walls, as well as the Dr. Seuss kid's table hand-painted by Klein's fiancée.
Cake and the Beanstalk is open Monday to Friday from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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