Havenly

The Best Bakeries in New Haven, Connecticut | Eater Boston

"While Havenly’s menu now features a breadth of savory Middle Eastern foods, co-founder, head chef, and lead trainer Nieda Abbas’s baklava was the cornerstone of the business from the start. The colorful downtown cafe, tucked under architect Paul Rudolph’s Brutalist arches, aims to center and support refugee and immigrant women through job training and civic engagement. Pair treats like crunchy walnut baklava and date-filled kleicha cookies with Arabic coffee and Iraqi cardamom tea at the storefront, or mail a Havenly Box of goodies to a friend." - Stasia Brewczynski