I highly recommend this spot to anyone who is looking for authentic, fresh, and incredibly…read moreflavorful baked goods. Everything tastes like it just came out of the oven. Their pan de bono is absolutely delicious: warm, soft, and perfectly cheesy with that slightly crisp exterior. It's the kind of treat you crave again the minute you finish it! I've tried several items here, from their wide variety of baked goods to their hot food options, and every single dish has been exquisite. The hot meals are flavorful, well-seasoned, and satisfying. The name truly says it all - "Rico" means delicious, and that's exactly what you get. Everything I've tasted lives up to that promise. The combination of fresh flavors and authentic recipes make this place stand out.

For as long as I've known this place was here, I've always wanted to try it. So glad I FINALLY did!…read moreLots of baked choices. Lots of cooked food. Lots of cakes. So much to choose from in a tiny space! I totally copied the man ahead of me and ordered everything he did. I told him I'm gonna blame him if it wasn't good but there was no need. It was DELICIOUS! So fresh and insanely reasonable in price! Even my friends were surprised when they heard the total! They have a few cafe tables & the place is clean enough to enjoy your meal. They're gonna get sick of me... im gonna be a regular now! Yummmm!

My partner and I visit Just Made Bakery at our local farmers market in NYC every Sunday and we are…read morein love with their baked goods. Their produce, apple cider donuts, and blueberry Anything are *chef's kiss!

New bakery opened up in the Panther Valley mall. It is very small w/3 tables inside offering…read morecoffee, tea, & of course delish sweets! When you walk in you can see Rebecca doing all the baking w/her parents helping out. As this place has just opened, the selection is limiting right now but while I was there w/friends enjoying our sweets, we saw a multitude of people walking in to check the place out & purchase something. She offers large cookies, macaroons, croissants, cupcakes, tarts & some round bread. The place is closed Monday & Tuesday. She makes beautiful cookies & pies. Yes, it's a little pricey but she is using quality ingredients! Located behind the Panther Pub with a lot of parking close by. Definitely check this place out! Wishing Rebecca all the best in her new venture!

This place is adorable and welcoming. Everyone there is so nice and helpful. I'm not sure what it's…read morecalled but it's like monkey bread, amazing!! Brownies with shaved salt on them, fantastic. I don't like gingerbread but I tried a sample of their gingerbread blondies, so good, so I bought one lol. Prices were very reasonable as well. Stop by and check them out. It's worth it.

My mom has picked up their biscotti several times. The pieces are on the smaller size compared to…read morethe mass produced individually wrapped logs available at the grocery store. The pieces are also not as hard as the factory made stuff. The variety of biscotti available is excellent. The owner is extremely nice. In my mom's most recent trip she brought home their brownie which is more like a fudge brownie topped with peanut butter and then topped by a chocolate shell- amazing! These are $2 each, whish is on the pricey side given that they are the size of a medium little neck clam. I'm surprised by the long shelf life of the biscotti- its not like that matters anyway, as it's consumed way before it would expire. If you are looking for an English speaking place to check out in hackettstown, give them a try!

I don't even like biscotti...or at least I didn't until I had it from Demi's. In addition to the…read morevanilla sugar and chocolate chip biscotti we bought a pumpkin bread which was amazing. The owner was great and said that they are expanding their hours. Can't wait to go back!

Cake Fiction was the one vendor we used from a recommendations list our wedding venue gave to us. I…read moream SO glad we did. Their barn itself is also super cute, just going up for the cake tasting session was magical in itself. Picking just 3 flavors to sample from their list of cake combinations was so hard, which was a good thing! You are allowed to have a different flavor for each layer of cake at no additional cost, so we had fun with those. We picked the olive oil cake with passion fruit cream, the walnut almond pound cake with raspberry mousse, and the lemon cake with orange flower blossom cream. Well, my husband talks about that passion fruit cream more than any other part of our wedding (I try not to be too upset about that), it was that amazing! My favorite flavor was the raspberry mousse, and I keep hearing a ton of compliments on that flavor in particular from our guests. The only critique I would give to Cake Fiction is that they didn't give the venue a list of the flavors so nobody knew what each layer was and my husband and I had picked the flavors months before and couldn't remember either. I also appreciate how up-front Cake Fiction was with their pricing, which is listed online on their website to give you an idea of an estimate for your cake. We ended up going with a naked cake with just buttercream frosting on the outside which saved us a bit of money, and it looked so beautiful after our florist put a couple of flowers on it for us and it really fit in well with the theme of our barn venue. I made my own cake toppers out of clay and they were a little heavy so I was worried about them on top possibly sinking into the cake, but the cake was sturdy and the topper sat up there proudly! And finally, Paula is also the sweetest lady ever and you can tell she really has a passion for her work. It's lovely that we have such a great wedding cake baker in New Jersey. Now if only they would open a tiny bakery so that we can get two cupcakes with our flavors next year for our anniversary. :)

Paula and Simon created an absolutely amazing 70th birthday cake for my father in law who was in…read morethe air force during the Vietnam War. The cake was in the shape of a phantom f4 jet and it was absolutely perfect. The attention to detail was impeccable!! My father in law thought it was a plastic model because it was made so well!! The staff at the restaurant kept coming in just to take pictures. The best part ~ it was absolutely delicious, too!!! I can't say enough good things about cake fiction... I can't wait to have them make another cake for us!!!

There was a point back in time where I wrote a flurry of reviews about the various supermarkets I…read moreshopped at, and I think my main focus tended to be on the service at the cash registers-- bored, indifferent, zombie-like, passive-aggressive, etc. Did they bag my groceries with at least a somewhat convincing imitation of professionalism and cheeriness, did they stare silently into space, or did they affix me with a look of unconcealed hostility as they tossed my groceries into a bag with all the delicacy and finesse of Sonny Liston hitting the heavy bag, or an opponent's face? Of course, with NJ banning single-use plastic and paper bags, that focus has obviously become academic and irrelevant. I currently have a stockpile of the re-usable $1 bags that these supermarkets now sell adding to the clutter of my "1-step-away-from-being-an-episode-of-Hoarders" abode because I invariably forget to bring any of them with me when I shop and have to buy another one at the cash register of whatever store I pick to buy my groceries at. The 1st time I came to the Mansfield Shop Rite, which is a while ago now, I intended to write a more critical review because of their shopping cart situation. The carts are all chained together, you have to insert a quarter into a device attached to the cart, which releases the chain and allows you to shop. On my initial encounter with this heretofore unknown shopping innovation, I struggled with the cart for an embarrassingly long time like an enfeebled halfwit before finally figuring it out. One guy saw me, took his cart, and ran away with it to the store without a word, evidently figuring I was going to have a complete imbecile's meltdown. I finally figured it out, no thanks to him, but a tutorial might have helped. Was I the only one this was new to? Obviously, writing that critical review slipped my mind. Until now, and...just as obviously, given my 5 star rating...it's not so critical. (In reference to shopping carts, I recently helped my birth mother in north NJ with her laundry, as I do monthly, and she stopped at the CVS in Wallington before we went on to the laundromat. She needed a shopping cart, but they were nowhere to be found. An employee walked outside with me to unsuccessfully locate one, remarking that they get stolen constantly. "We were able to track one down at the Wal-Mart"-- several miles away. So, I've belatedly come to recognize that maybe there's a genuine need for such a theft deterring device-- although, a determined shopping cart thief probably would be willing to lose a quarter in exchange for a brand-new shopping cart...who knows?...) Inside, the store is large and sprawling. The times I've been here, I can usually find what I need; no supply problems that I've encountered so far. The check-out counter lines are long, unless you use the "self-check-out" counters. Given that I had trouble figuring out the quarter-a-cart situation, I leave the self-check-out counters alone (which I'm against in principle anyway-- nothing like paying to ring up your own groceries!). Still, the check-out process moves relatively fast. I've found service to be pretty friendly and helpful. When I went last week, the gentleman ringing up the groceries asked, "Can I help you bag those?" That's a first! It's also the reason for the 5 stars. I politely declined and finished the job myself (I've gotten used to it at this point) but I appreciated the offer. Outside, confirming my status as a Luddite, I had trouble figuring out how to get my quarter back from the device on the cart (it's been a while since I last shopped here). Once you manually re-attach the chain, and secure the cart, the device spits out your quarter back to you. If you're new to the area, the parking lot situation at this location can be potentially confusing, and tricky (what looks like an exit is actually an entrance; the exit for the direction I head home in is near the movie theater, just beyond the Dollar Store), but I've been here enough times in recent years to at least have that figured out. A police car is sometimes waiting near one of the exits to "get" those that haven't. Objectively, this store probably rates only 4 stars, but the gentleman offering to help me bag my groceries brightened my day more than it probably should have, and I'm rating it an admittedly generous 5-stars. Obviously, if you're a shopping cart thief, this probably isn't the store for you. Try the CVS in Wallington.

This ShopRite is my preferred supermarket in the area. I drive 20 minutes and bypass closer stores…read morein Morris, Hunterdon, and Warren counties because this location is always the first one I want to support. Their prices are reasonably competitive, and the shelves are consistently well stocked, which makes planning and shopping much easier. Is the layout counterintuitive? Absolutely. Is it annoying to have to use a quarter to get a cart? Definitely. But the staff more than make up for these quirks. The team is friendly and genuinely helpful across the board--the produce section, deli counter, fresh fish area, the kind cashiers, and especially the amazing butcher team. They seem happy to be here and happy to help, and that energy really comes through. The icing on the cake is the other shoppers. People are respectful with their carts, offer a smile as they pass, and do small, gracious things--like letting someone with two items go ahead of their overflowing cart. It all adds up to a place that simply feels good to shop in. As Maya Angelou said, "People will never forget how you made them feel," and that's exactly why I keep coming back to this store.

i went here ONCE. And i'm upset it's only been once because oh my goodness. I am pretzel fanatic #1…read moreand this place has one of the most amazing pretzels ever. Perfectly salted and this place is decorated so cutely. I love it so much. They were so sweet too and overall i really would like to come here again!!

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