Ema

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"Ema makes the most beautiful Mexican pastries and breakfast in town, remixing familiar dishes and flavors like horchata and blue corn into cream-stuffed donuts shaped like miniature curling stones or the topping on fluffy conchas. The bakery and cafe started as a stall at the Urban Harvest Farmers Market and quickly started selling out almost as early as the stand opened. Now a full-fledged cafe in The Heights, there are even more incredible pastries, horchata-spiked coffee drinks, and brunch options. Go here for breakfast or brunch and watch everyone around you trade bites of achiote pork-stuffed pambazos with forceful insistence. No wonder the counter line constantly spills out the front door." - chelsea thomas, gianni greene