Before Lupita Kuri bought this mobile business and had the truck (and all its recipes) shipped to Chicago, Sweet Ride was a phenom in San Francisco. Fearful of cupcake overload, the petite, hot-pink truck offers baseball-sized whoopie pies, puddings and Mexican hot chocolate…

With a name like “flirty,” it’s got to be cute, right? In fact, this truck specializes in cuteness, from the Pepto-pink paint job to crowning cupcakes with names like the McDreamy and Smore Me Over…

The More Mobile The city’s most upscale cupcakery also has the city’s most elegant food truck. It’s more of a van, really, with a display window showing off the sophisticated—and devastingly delicious—cupcakes people track it down for…

Chalk it up to French stubbornness that despite terms prohibiting the sale of individual pastries or a cup of coffee, Vincent Colombet signed a lease on this Logan Square corner for his first retail bakery (he gets around it by selling “wholesale” via punch cards for a dozen of anything)…

The hot chocolate at this unassuming café can run with the best of them—it’s as thick as the stuff at XOCO and as nuanced as the stuff at Vosges. It’s so good, in fact, that perhaps the café should push it as its main attraction…

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