Bakewell

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"Guyanese locals line up here daily for their bread pantry essentials like plait bread (a breakfast-favorite white bread that’s soft, buttery and braided), tennis rolls (sweet rolls that you can break off from the fluffy loaf), and bags of bara (spicy, golden fried orbs of chickpea flour and spinach not to be confused with Trinidadian bara that bookends doubles) coupled up with little containers of tamarind chutney. Bakewell serves all the other freshly baked Guyanese favorites like pine tarts, salara (swirled red coconut bread), and dhal puri (paper-thin roti stuffed with ground yellow split peas), among other items. A family-owned halal enterprise,   the father-and-daughter duo of Chief Samsair and Sasha Samsair brought the shop from Guyana in 2016." - Caroline Shin