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This tiny, diagonal-cut storefront operates primarily as a grab-and-go counter dedicated to showcasing traditional Afghan baking techniques. Co-founded by baker Bryan Ford and the team behind Astoria's Little Flower, the space features a single long wooden bench and a dark, minimalist aesthetic that lets the golden pastries take center stage. Regulars know to grab their pastries and hot chai to go, heading straight for a bench along the nearby Brooklyn Heights Promenade.
★ The Legend
Sheer Pira
This signature pastry is built around a traditional, cardamom-scented Afghan milk fudge that is wrapped in a laminated, buttery dough. It is baked until dense and soft like a doughnut, then layered with pistachio frangipane, vanilla diplomat cream, and a dusting of crushed pistachios.
◆ Fan Favorite
Enjir
This sweet scroll features dried figs that are rehydrated and soaked overnight in a tart pomegranate molasses. The fruit is rolled into a pastry cream-slathered dough before being sliced and baked into a sticky, deeply caramelized bun.
● Chef's Pick
Saffron Shah
Baker Bryan Ford designed this crescent-shaped pastry to highlight the pure, unadulterated flavor of bloomed saffron threads without any vanilla to mask it. The flaky, laminated pastry is piped generously with a vibrant yellow saffron pastry cream and finished with a dip of saffron-infused white chocolate.
◇ Hidden Gem
Afghan Flatbread with Scallion Cream Cheese
Most visitors walk right past the savory bread counter in pursuit of the sweet pastries, missing this traditional, hand-stretched flatbread. Regulars order it warmed so the scallion-flecked cream cheese melts perfectly into the blistered, chewy crumb.
✦ Off the Menu
Halwa Sticky Bun
This off-menu hybrid takes traditional Afghan halwa—a sweet, cardamom-infused semolina confection usually eaten with flatbread—and rolls it into a sticky bun drenched in syrup and topped with three types of crushed nuts. Ask for it at the counter on weekend mornings before the standard sweet buns are gone.
Insider Tip
Arrive before 11:00 AM on Saturdays and Sundays if you want to secure the savory flatbreads or the lamb samosas, as the kitchen bakes in small batches and routinely sells out of savory items by midday. Pair whatever you order with their hot Afghan chai, which is brewed with whole milk and heavily spiced with green cardamom.