Have you ever seen a whole shop full of decorated or multi-leveled cakes? In Europe, you can’t get one just like that. In Mexico City, on the other hand, there is the Pastelería Ideal. Here you can also find the normal sweet pastries of Mexico, but also large, tall cakes or cakes decorated with pictures or whatever.
When you enter the Pastelería Ideal, there is a busy atmosphere downstairs. Workers are scurrying around and filling up shelves, people are bustling around the tables and shelves with the pastries and there is a general hustle and bustle. Up the stairs on the right, you can’t believe what awaits you. The whole room is filled to the brim with cakes that either go up or have motifs such as Elsa or Coco or circus motifs or are decorated for a wedding or Halloween. Some big and flat (Coco’s was a guitar! :D) and others 3, 4 or even 5 levels high. Really really cool. My own jaw actually dropped for a moment. I mean you don’t see stuff like that every day, do you?
Go or not? Personally, I think you should. I mean it’s a ‘bakery’ in the centre that you can take a quick look at and is kinda part of Mexican culture. Mexicans are just really cheesy about a lot of things and quite sugar fanatical – just like these cakes. Apart from that, the Pastelería Ideal is famous for its cakes. So let’s go 😀