A month after debuting Pasteleria y Café (236 Euclid Ave.) downtown off Public Square, Phil Davis and head chef Yaxcira Torres are pivoting. What they first envisioned as a daytime bakery and coffeeshop featuring tres leches cakes will now become a nighttime-focused bakery and coffeeshop with a new name: Café Nocturno.
“All the feedback from our customers was that there was a need for a late-night destination with coffee and desserts,” Davis, who previously owned and operated the beloved Phil the Fire restaurants, told Cleveland.com.
Expect many of the same sweet treats and a wide array of tres leches flavors alongside a Latin vibe.
“They’re my recipes, but it’s her kitchen,” Davis told Scene of the cakes. “We describe tres leches as a feel-good dessert: it’s cold, it’s creamy and it’s delicious.”
In addition to traditional tres leches flavors, the café will offer a dozen other flavors like Key Lime, banana, strawberry and coconut that will rotate in and out. To pair with the sweets will be fresh-ground coffee, music and art.
“We want our space to be the happy place,” Davis said. “We want people to come here, sit down and talk, and listen to the vibe of the Latin music.”
Café Nocturno will be open 4 p.m. to 2 a.m daily.
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