Eli's Essentials

Café · Upper East Side

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"I stop first at Eli’s Essentials to see if there’s anything I might want to take home, like a slice of white cake with white icing, but that’s not really their thing, and the big fondant-iced cookies with the names of the Oscar-nominated films painted on them are not really doing it for me."

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