Fodor's Expert Review La Dolcerie Café Bistro

This cutesy, kid-friendly restaurant/bakery looks like a French café where chic patrons do lunch. It's buzzing for all three meals (it's the "in" brunch place for residents of this fashionable Piantini neighborhood), and happily, it's moderately priced, even for apps the size of mains, and generous dishes such as one of the croque madames (perhaps with pulled pork added) or eggs Benedict. At breakfast, they squeeze your juice and tempt you with house-made croissants and beignets. For lunch there's grilled sausages and such sides as homemade waffle-cut fries in silver baskets. Dinner includes delicious mofonguitos (plantain cups filled with veal osso buco). Signature desserts are luscious. If only the service was so good. Try to snag a seat on the less noisy terrace.