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Messina Market & Catering |
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Messina Market Express |
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Manhasset, NY 11030 |
P: 516-472-0414 |
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Messina Market
Gourmet Food and Spirits |
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Messina Market is unique with healthy edibles. They provide the highest quality freshly prepared wholesome foods. In their cafe you can choose ingredients to make your own creation which they will prepare for you. It's a comfortable place for you to relax, socialize and enjoy your meal. Brothers Daniele and Corey Messina's roots go, back four generations to their great-grandfather and grandfather who were pastry chefs in Italy. Their father opened Dortoni Bakery, 3264 Hempstead Tpke., Levittown, 516-796-3033, in 1977 and brought up his sons in the business. La Bonne Boulangerie is a European Bakery specializing in all types of cakes and pastries from chocolate chip cookies to three dimensional character cakes to multi-tier wedding cakes and all kinds of breads. They've grown to be full service Caterers offering hot and cold foods, baked goods, rentals and staffing. Catering services include private parties in country clubs, catering halls or your home. Let them cater your next party or make up a gift basket especially for you. |
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Sweets for Easter and Passover
An Easter egg hunt in East Norwich may well lead to La Bonne Boulangerie. At this handsome eight-year-old bakery you’ll find Easter sweet bread in three shapes and sizes, priced by the number of whole eggs in their shells that have been nestled and baked in the flaky brioche dough. A roll with one egg perched in the middle is $2.75; a 10-inch bread “crown” holding three eggs is $8.25, and the five-egg, 12-inch cross-shaped centerpiece is $13.75. The season also brings traditional hot-cross buns, filled with dried fruit and marked with a white-icing cross on top ($1.75 each).
Long Island, Westchester, Connecticut and New Jersey
Holiday sweets are a specialty of the owners, the Messina family, who own the adjacent Messina Market and two other Long Island bakeries: La Bonne Boulangerie in Port Jefferson and the Levittown bakery Dortoni, which Raffaele Messina started in 1976. “Keeping tradition alive, that’s really what we do,” said Daniele Messina, his son. “This is what Grandma used to make for the holidays.”
The bakery, which Mr. Messina describes as international, covers Italian territory with an old-fashioned Easter pie filled with wheat grain and ricotta ($18.50). Jewish tradition is represented with Passover-style mandelbrot, a cookielike bread in chocolate marble or nut varieties ($9.50 a loaf) and coconut macaroons ($13 a pound). Although not kosher, the Passover items are made using cornstarch and matzoh meal, not flour.
The bakery specializes in elaborately decorated cakes for weddings and other special occasions; other year-round temptations include tortes and housemade breads ranging from buttery croissants ($1.90 each) to a hearty Swiss muesli loaf ($8). The bakery has only two stools and a small counter at which to sit. It’s better to take the sweets home for the holidays.
La Bonne Boulangerie, 62-47 Route 25A, East Norwich; (516) 624-8900. www.labonneboulangerie.com.
SUSAN M. NOVICK |
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Featured Gourmet Shop:
The Messina family have owned and operated upscale Pastry Shoppes on Long Island for Over 30 years. The first location, Dortoni Bakery began in Levittown in 1976. In 1994, after years of success, family members launched their second location in Port Jefferson, and La Bonne Boulangerie was born. This new concept offered the same exquisite fresh product, combined with a full cappuccino bar, as well as an upscale environment. Once again, a few years later they opened their third location in the charming town of East Norwich. Finally, after determining this profound respect of the particular clientele and the specific demand for quality and presentation, Messina family members have expanded their hospitality services and began Messina Market.
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MESSINA MARKET is proud to present it's pastry shop: La Bonne Boulangerie
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2010 BEST MARKET @ Island Harvest by Long Island Food Critic
17th Annual Taste of the Harvest Celebration
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
An evening of cocktails, extended gourmet tasting to support fighting hunger on Long Island. Fighting hunger and touching lives, Island Harvest serves as the bridge between those who have surplus food and those who need it. |
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