"Le Mirage is an all-around excellent Syrian bakery filled with every type of pastry, cake, tart, and cookie you could want. But like skipping to your favorite track on a greatest hits album, we can't ever go here without ordering their baklava and bouza ice cream. The baklava is the best in the neighborhood (a high distinction in Little Arabia), but it’s the bouza that is worth a road trip just to eat. The taffy-like Syrian ice cream—thickened with a type of dried tree sap—is rich, gooey, and modeled after the same ice cream the owner grew up eating in Damascus. It’s an incredibly special dessert that deserves a spot in everyone's ice cream Rolodex." - brant cox
Krystal Thompson