But go there for lunch first, and you'll see why, because if you aren't planning a celebration, Citizen Cake has far more to offer than just cake. And everything there is done as well as possible, it seems. Citizen Cake is the dessert cafe founded by pastry chef Elizabeth Falkner after she left Rubicon. Everything's high caliber, simple and well executed. They serve San Pellegrino Aranciata, about whose appeal an entire column could be written.
Nothing is overlooked.
They bake their pizzas and pies in a serious wood-fired oven, whose wood, stacked out front, supplies a note of rusticity among the steel furniture and concrete floor. Lunch options are few but excellent. For a dollar more, you can get a piece of fresh fruit and two cookies thrown in with your sandwich to round out the meal. There is a house pizza, made with a tomato sauce and provolone, as well as a daily pizza. Pizzas are about 9 inches in diameter, thin-crusted and made to order.