Paczki Day in Chicago: Polish tradition, Fat Tuesday IndulgenceFebruary 12, 2013
-- ABC 7 News
Duration: (2:25)
Lunchbreak: How to make ‘drunkin donuts’February 17, 2013
-- 190 North
Lunchbreak: How to make ‘drunkin donuts’December 21, 2012
-- WGN Midday News Segments / Lunchbreak
Lunchbreak: How to make ‘drunkin donuts’February 17, 2013
-- 190 North
'Drunkin donuts’November 20, 2012
-- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Alcoholic Donuts? Chicago Bakery Delightful Pastries Serves Up Booze-Filled Treats November 15, 2012
-- The Huffington Post
Chicago's Best Polish Food:
Delightful PastriesMarch 15, 2012
-- Ted Brunson & Brittney Payton of Chicago NOW
Let Us Now Praise Paczki February 15, 2012
Before Fat Tuesday, there was Fat Thursday. Not in an historical sense— it's just that tomorrow is Polish Fat Tuesday, Tlusty Czwartek, and the Sun-Times has a piece on one
of the things that makes living in a heavily Polish city cool— paczki.
** Grub Street Chicago. Daily food news from nymag.com.
Around the World in Cookies December 6, 2011
Luckily, there are pleasantly ubiquitous traditions that are a delight to welcome back every December. For most families, holiday cookie baking is the prime example. (...)
At Delightful Pastries in Jefferson Park, owner Dobra Bielinski has made it her mission to stock the retro bakery cases with as many types of globally inspired cookies as she can. After a childhood spent in Poland, Vienna and South Africa, Bielinski has acquired a distinctly international approach to holiday treats. (...)
Delightful Pastries' Delightful Tea October 3, 2011
(...) Chef Dobra Bielinski wants to introduce mini pastries to Americans, since similar sweet tables with selections of almost too-pretty-to-eat pastries are
popular throughout Europe.
“I like mini pastries because they afford you the ability to choose,” she says. For guests at Delightful Pastries, choices include classic Italian tiramisu,
caramel panna cotta with Michigan sour cherry compote, lemon mousse parfait with blueberries and chocolate mousse topped with fresh berries." ... Read more...
-- Amber Gibson
** Joonbug
Homemade chocolate treats from Old Town's Delightful Pastry and Bakery CafeSeptember 11, 2011
September 1, 2011 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- No need to be a master pastry chef to make scrumptious chocolate treats at home. Chef Dobra Bielinski of Delightful Pastry and Bakery Cafe shares her tricks and recipes to make chocolate truffles, chocolate cream pie and chocolate Liegeois.
** abc7 News
Duration: (5:22)
WGN Radio's Saturday Morning Show August , 2011
-- Sharon and Robert
Chicago's Best Polish Food:
Delightful PastriesMarch 27, 2011
-- Ted Brunson & Brittney Payton of Chicago NOW
Duration: (3:23)
Food Detective: Perfecting Paczki March 1, 2011
"(...) I've had her paczki on several occasions - they're fabulous - and so I asked Bielinski to describe the perfect paczek (pronounced pohn-check, the singular form of paczki).
"The perfect paczek has just the right ratio of dough to jelly: 4 to 1," she says. "The dough is not too sweet and has body so that it doesn't collapse into a pancake with one bite. After frying, it has a gorgeous hazelnut color, not the pale gold of a Krispy Kreme. The doughnut should be subtly flavored with orange and lemon oil." Read more...
-- David Hammond
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More vendors join Chicago French Market lineup October 16, 2009
"Mon dieu! Eight years of developing and delays aside, the Chicago French Market
continues to surpass our expectations, and it's not even opening until mid-November.
The European-inspired, year-round indoor market, which will encompass 15,000 square
feet in the Ogilvie Metra station, has added 16 more local vendors to its roster. They
include Delightful Pastries, whose Fat Tuesday paczki are, for lack of better words, the
bomb..."
-- Janet Fulleron
** Digging in - Blog Chicago Sun-Times Tasty morsels about Chicago's food scene.
Delightful Polish pastries on the NW SideDecember 3, 2008
"CHICAGO (WLS) -- With the holiday season upon us, bakeries are busy, but our Hungry Hound realizes there's much more than just cakes and cookies around town.
Over the next four Wednesdays, the Hungry Hound is taking a unique look at some of the best ethnic bakeries in Chicago...
(...)You wouldn't have to guess too hard to figure out what kind of bakery Delightful Pastries is. Located on the Western edge of Jefferson Park, most of the customers are Polish. But that doesn't mean everything on the shelves is from Poland.
"The bakery is truly a European bakery, because we have products from France, we make products that are
German, we make products that are Austrian, Polish and Czech, and of course American," said Dobra Bielinski, Delightful Pastries." Read more...
-- Steve Dolinsky
** abc7 News
The Polish PatisserieJune 22, 2007
"(… )For nearly a decade, Bielinski has been the proprietress of
Delightful Pastries, a cozy European bakery in Jefferson Park. A onetime employee of Gale Gand, she's meticulous about her food, sourcing fresh ingredients from local producers as much as possible. Her butter and heavy cream come from Wisconsin and Illinois; apples, cherries, blueberries, peaches, rhubarb, and raspberries from small family farms in southwest Michigan; and vegetables form southern Illinois." Read more...
-- Alan Mommoser
** Chicago Reader
Delightful Pastries Comes to Old Town... with ChocolateNovember 16, 2009
"The second outpost of Delightful Pastries, Dobra Bielinski and Stasia Hawyrszczuk's European-inspired enterprise, opened in Old Town last Friday. Unlike the Jefferson Park location, the Old Town space is a cafe that is at once expansive and cozy. It already seemed, early on Sunday morning, to be part of the morning routine of people from the neighborhood who settled in for pastry and coffee with their families and newspapers." Read more...
-- Sharon Bautista
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