Cafe Latte: Best Cafe in St. Paul

Cafe Latté can be found on the historic Grand Avenue in St. Paul, Minnesota. It's a family owned restaurant that has many areas of focus including gourmet pizza, a bakery, and a cafeteria-style eatery. This restaurant is the best in the city and one of my all time favorite places to eat.

The sprawling restaurant has many sides. On one side sits the gourmet pizza counter. They have many styles of pizza and will make them while you wait. This definitely isn't your ordinary pizza parlor. You can order pepperoni if you aren't feeling very brave, but that isn't their specialty. Cafe Latté instead focuses on unique gourmet offerings such as Margherita, Pesto, and Barbecue Chicken Potato pizzas.

Next to the pizza counter you'll find a bakery with a wide array of desserts and breads. Although their cakes, tortes, and tarts can be a bit pricey at more that $25 dollars a pop, you are getting a high quality dessert. You can really taste the difference when you compare their offerings with the likes of Cub Foods. They also carry many different kinds of fresh breads. If you don't want to spend a lot on bread, they offer day-old bread at a drastically reduced price. Although it's a day old, the bread still tastes as fresh as if you bought it the day before.

The most notable section of the restaurant is the café. You pick your food in a cafeteria style line in which they offer individual slices of dessert, salads, sandwiches, dip platters, and soup. The menu is always changing. You could go there two nights in a row and not be offered the same dishes, but you will always be offered great tasting food. Be careful about how much food you pile onto your tray, though. Many people, including myself, have made the mistake of taking much more food than they could ingest. If you choose a dessert, small salad, and a sandwich, you will have more than enough food and will likely have leftovers. Keep an eye on what you eat!