matty cakes' reviews
winner of Southern Voice's "best
desserts" for 2006 and 2007. thanks to all who voted!
from Go City Kids
... Over-the-top birthday cake choices include the richest
red velvet, caramel banana, and a devil's fudge cake that's the stuff of
chocoholic dreams. Check the website for some gorgeous kids cakes ideas.
... Oh my goodness, it is very delicious.
This place is incredible!!!! Delicious cakes, sandwiches, and cookies... and
Matt is so kind to everyone.
from The
Blissful Glutton
Just went over to check out the new digs. The sandwich
menu is very creative. I had the veggie sandwich ... Totally tasty and filling.
I finished it off with a double-chocolate cookie...
(from The Blissful Glutton's September 2007 A La Carta acticle in Altanta
Intown newspaper)... The cupcakes are pretty big, but you can eat half and save
the rest for later. The chocolate cupcake with cream filling is a grown up play
on the Hostess Cupcake and so very sexy. The red velvet cupcake is a
respectable version with cream cheese frosting that is sweet enough without
being cloying , and the interior has a lustrous sheen...
from
The Knot
The cakes were both beautiful and tasted ridiculously
divine. Several people told me that the groom’s cake was the best chocolate
cake they had ever had! And the lemon filled-yellow wedding cake was as light
and refreshing as lemonade. As far as appearances, Matt made my vision become
reality for our wedding cake...
from Yelp.com
... such beautiful works of art it's almost tearful eating them but when they hit your tastebuds you'll get over it really quick!
Believe the hype, the stories are true and Matty Cakes delivers on all levels. The specialty cakes and cupcakes are everything you want them to be.
Matty Cakes is cool because they feature gourmet cupcakes, but if you have an urge to buy a couple dozen of a really unique flavor the owner will work with you to figure something out.
This little bakery is the perfect place to grab a fresh sandwich and cookie to take to the park ...
Reviewed by Chuck O'Boyle in Creative Loafing, Atlanta
Review posted with permission.
An MBA would probably tell you that any talented pastry chef who wants to
establish a retail bakery must also, at least in its start-up phase, dispense
sandwiches. Sometimes, this incidental service continues well after the primary
business is thriving: Atlanta's finest bread maker, Bread Garden on Amsterdam,
still makes sandwiches to order at its retail counter. But the heart and soul
of Midtown's cheerful new Matty Cakes are the sweets. Not since Mondo Bakery
closed to make way for Figo Pasta have Atlantans had over-the-counter access to
cakes as ambitious as these.
Matty Lewis - a brawny, tattooed CIA graduate - bakes in a Continental, rather
than American, idiom, but he also understands our craving for indigenous
desserts. Red Velvet cake is a star of his menu. It is, like his other
offerings, a deluxe version. Butter-laden genoise batter gives the actual cake
a density that is both intense and expansive on the palate. Cream cheese
frosting - his default icing - is in this instance generously showered with
pecans.
Coconut cake, another Southern favorite, is rendered as Coconut Cream and has
layers that are almost foamy in their lightness. Its cream cheese frosting gets
its twist from a "finish" of white chocolate ganache.
Most of the remaining selections venture into the exotic: a chocolate orange
terrine incorporates a "marquis mousse and mandarin oranges." And then there's
the Dolce de Leche Cheesecake, with its astringent streusel of faintly burnt
caramel. It should be a best seller.
But you can't make a meal of cake, so Matty Cakes offers a limited "specialty
sandwich" menu. Sandwich fillings are baroque. The best, the Veggie, warrants a
laundry list: hummus, avocado, roasted peppers, caramelized onions, goat
cheese, alfalfa sprouts, pickles, portabella mushrooms and sun-dried tomatoes.
In the chicken salad, excessive additions (toasted walnuts, grapes, blue cheese
and mayonnaise) overburden the primary ingredient.
thank you to all our customers for the great
reviews