Palmieri Cafe

Opened in 2016 at the Dallas Farmers Market, this tiny Italian bakery comes from Corrado Palmieri, a former investment banker and SMU MBA graduate who wanted to showcase the Italian pastries he grew up baking with his grandmother in Southern Italy. In fact, this is probably the only place in the city where you can score a pasticciotto, a traditional custard tart from Lecce, Puglia. Other sweet treats include cornettos (cream-filled Italian croissants), vanilla cream graffas, which are like donuts, and cannoncinos, a horn-shaped pastry filled with milk chocolate or vanilla-lemon cream. Savory pastries, house-made gelato, tea and Italian coffee drinks are also on offer.