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)
This impeccably tidy Bridgeview takeout counter sells freshly baked spinach pies, za’atar-covered flatbreads and other healthy, satisfying baked items. If you like spicy, go for the eggplant-schmeared mohamara; for sheer comfort food, don’t miss the potato triangles