Back in 2006, when I was a wee baby blogger, I read an article about a place in San Francisco that sold the most amazing cream puffs called Beard Papa’s.
It was was one of my first blog posts about food and when I noticed a trend with food and lawyers. In the article, an attorney named Jordan Goldstein, gave one of my favorite quotes ever about food.
It was one of the best days of my life, said Goldstein, who returned with his friend 24 hours later to procure six more pastries. “These are like eating air.
I never forgot that quote and always remembered thinking about the cream puffs that inspired it.
So last week I was at work and we were talking about food. Like always. We were saying how bringing food to employees, inspires so much goodwill and that we would all like a sweet snack. By the way, we have been bringing in snacks to share just about every week.
Then one of our supervising attorneys, who was not in the room while we were talking about wanting gifts of food, brought us some mini cream puffs. We were so happy!
Come to find out, he got them from Beard Papa’s! They just recently opened in Chinatown, which is just around the corner from my current office.
After work last night, I decided to stop by and see the place for myself. There was a line of people and a bit of a wait for the cream puffs. By the way, the scent inside was thrilling and intoxicating.
The bakers fill each cream puff as you wait. I got two regular sized puffs so that I could share one with G.
We both inhaled them! The cream squishes out all over the place and the puff is delicate and crunchy. They are messy. But messy in such a playful way that you will need to lick your fingers and juggle keeping the puff together. Then you realize that you have eaten the whole thing in 5 seconds!
Ha! It’s wonderful. Now I know what Jordan was talking about.
There used to be a Beard Papa in Faneuil Hall back in 2005. I used to work there and I remember people waiting loooong lines just to get one of Beard Papa’s famous cream puffs. I never understood why they closed and I haven’t had a cream puff in over ten years 🙁 I guess I’ll have to visit Chinatown now! 🙂
Anna – Very interesting! I missed it back then somehow. So strange that it closed. Hope you get to Chinatown soon, because ten years is too long to go without a cream puff! Thanks for commenting and giving me more insight into the history of Beard Papa in Boston! 😀