I visited Tatte Bakery & Café. The fast-casual chain is so incredible that states without it should be jealous.

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Tatte sewage its commencement successful Boston and is now chiefly owned by a large investor successful nan fast-cusual business.

In 2008, Israeli-born pastry cook Tzurit Or opened nan first Tatte location successful Brookline, Massachusetts. ("Tatte" is Yiddish for "papa.")

Tatte really began expanding extracurricular of nan greater Boston area aft investor Ron Shaich purchased complete 50% of its ownership successful 2016.

After all, Scaich — nicknamed "The Godfather of Fast Casual" — has a beautiful stacked résumé arsenic nan cofounder and erstwhile CEO of Panera Bread, cofounder of Au Bon Pain, and a lead investor of Cava.

Tatte headed southward successful August 2020 pinch its first location successful DC's West End vicinity and it now has complete 40 cafés passim Massachusetts and nan greater DC area.

The concatenation is much than conscionable a bakery and café.

With intricately tiled floors, shiny subway-tile walls, and café tables that tin hardly withstand nan heft of what I insist connected ordering, nan locations person a comparatively azygous vibe that instantly says, "Tatte."

The concatenation offers a wide action of baked goods, positive brunch dishes, sandwiches, salads, and different fast-casual bites. It's possibly champion to deliberation of nan flavors connected connection arsenic having Israeli, Mediterranean, American, and European influences.

Some dishes consciousness American pinch a twist (bacon, lettuce, avocado, and herb connected challah bread), but others look much explicitly Israeli (lamb kebab pinch baba ghanoush).

Fusion comes successful nan shape of selections for illustration a harissa-maple-glazed short rib served complete eggplant and couscous.

Still, dessert is nan champion portion of a sojourn to Tatte.

The centerpiece of nan shop is ever nan bakery counter, which I ne'er walk without grabbing a halva brownie aliases pistachio croissant.

It's often packed pinch a scope of saccharine and savory laminated-dough treats from flaky kouign-amanns to cocoa snails, each awaiting find among different non-refrigerated delights for illustration nan halva chocolate-chunk cooky and monkey bread.

A refrigerated lawsuit is usually filled pinch desserts ranging from fruity to chocolaty. The cheesecake is particularly noteworthy, topped pinch a action of different berries arranged by color.

I besides ne'er skip a cup of java here.

I americium patently not a java drinker — moreover nan astir insipid versions person ever been excessively bitter for me. But I americium 1 erstwhile astatine Tatte, wherever I emotion to person a fewer sips of my husband's pistachio latte.

The latte is made pinch house-roasted espresso that tastes for illustration cocoa and caramel, but it's nan house-made pistachio syrup that's captured my fancy.

It's a pity to spot nan skillful latte creation dissipate pinch each sip, but location are rewards astatine nan extremity of nan cup. The thick, somewhat chunky syrup collects astatine nan bottom, leaving a fewer last super-powered pistachio sips. I emotion it — and my hubby says it's for illustration "chewable coffee."

The shakshuka has ever been my favorite.

Even successful nan divers greater DC area, I've had problem uncovering a genuinely awesome type of nan egg dish, which is celebrated successful nan Middle East and North Africa.

But past I recovered Tatte's shakshuka. There, nan oversize cookware filled pinch tomato, pepper, and bulb condiment is ever picture-perfect.

My favourite type of nan crockery connected nan paper has lamb meatballs and labneh.

In nan crimson base, soft-centered eggs break to make nan condiment creamier and moreover much enjoyable. The oblong lamb meatballs are spiced conscionable capable to proviso a sensation of Israel that combines harmoniously pinch nan blobs of spicy labneh (strained yogurt) and caller parsley. The unexpected prima of nan show for maine is nan saccharine and lightly spicy peppadew peppers connected top.

The crockery comes pinch 3 slices of toasted challah for sopping up each past clump of herb and pepper.

My hubby prefers nan location meal plate.

At Tatte, my hubby goes for a classical meal pinch toast, murphy fritters, and crispy bacon paired pinch eggs cooked really you like. Diners tin besides adhd beef sausage to nan dish.

The murphy fritters are a item — 2 crispy latkes served beneath a dusting of Parmesan food pinch flecks of mint, on pinch herb jam for dipping.

Tatte's dessert offerings person impressed me.

I seldom repetition a dessert astatine Tatte. Not because I tyre of them, but because location are truthful galore I want to try.

On this visit, I went pinch nan passionfruit krembo and halva bomb.

Krembos are a celebrated dainty successful Israel that are akin to a cocoa teacake aliases Mallomar. They're fundamentally soft cookies topped pinch a heap of marshmallow fluff enrobed successful chocolate.

The passionfruit krembo astatine Tatte takes nan dessert to caller heights by mixing passionfruit curd pinch vanilla meringue. The operation of textures and flavors made maine spell backmost for wound aft bite.

I was conscionable arsenic impressed pinch nan halva bomb, which wasn't excessively sweet.

When I was increasing up, my begetter was an avowed halva eater, but I was ever turned disconnected by nan dense, clay-like bars of it he'd bargain astatine nan supermarket.

But nan sesame paste successful nan halfway of nan halva explosive I ordered was soft and vanilla-scented, covered successful whipped milk-chocolate ganache and a dark-chocolate-ganache glaze.

I would emotion to spot Tatte grow passim nan US.

My statement of 2 spent $50.50 earlier taxation and tip, which seemed for illustration a adjacent value for 2 meals, a coffee, and 2 desserts.

Once again, I'd near Tatte emotion impressed and wishing nan concatenation was expanding astir nan US quicker.

The marque is still only disposable successful Boston and nan DC Metro area, pinch its 2nd Maryland location expected to unfastened successful nan adjacent fewer months.

But nan expansion of Cava, different fast-casual concatenation Shaich invested in, gives maine dream that Tatte could person a nationwide takeover successful its future.

Cava began serving its Mediterranean fast-casual nutrient successful Maryland successful 2011 and now has astir 360 locations successful half of nan US states, pinch plans for hundreds more by 2032.

I don't cognize if I scheme connected surviving successful nan DC Metro region for nan remainder of my life — each I cognize is that wherever I spell next, there'd amended beryllium a Tatte nearby.