Little Italy · Dessert cafe
Frost Me Cafe & Bakery
A piazza-side bakery café where Ritual coffee, scratch pastries and a lively patio make dessert as important as espresso.
Latest at Frost Me Cafe & Bakery
Distinctive finds
From the shop’s Instagram
Official Reel demonstrates the bakery’s detailed custom-cake work with miniature sculpted decorations.
What people go for here
Frost Me is most consistently loved as a scratch bakery and brunch café: cinnamon pastries, cupcakes and celebration cakes lead the food praise, while Ritual coffee and signature lattes such as cardamom-orange round out the visit. The piazza patio and generally friendly service make it an appealing breakfast or social stop, but rotating pastry availability, downtown pricing, daytime-only hours and brunch traffic limit its reliability for a long work session.
- Cinnamon roll or morning bun
- Cupcakes and celebration cakes
- Cardamom Orange Latte
- Seasonal quiche
Worth knowing: Some customers consider prices high, while others see them as typical for a bakery-café in central Little Italy; value therefore depends on whether the visit centers on scratch pastry and the piazza setting.
Order this
- 01Cardamom Orange Latte
- 02single-origin pour-over
- 03Cupcake Wars-winning cupcake
The coffee
Scratch bakery and brunch café serving Ritual Coffee Roasters espresso, single-origin pour-over, cold brew and nitro.
Ritual Coffee Roasters anchors a deeper-than-expected program for a dessert café: espresso, standard drinks, eight signature lattes, single-origin pour-over, regular cold brew and nitro. The strong pastry pairing is the differentiator, especially with cardamom-orange or honey-cinnamon flavors.
The room
A polished bakery café facing Piazza della Famiglia, with a colorful dessert counter, indoor dining and an outdoor patio embedded in Little Italy foot traffic.
A bakery-led café on Piazza della Famiglia with scratch-made sweets, savory brunch/lunch, Ritual coffee and patio seating; pastries vary with demand
- The space
- Moderate
- Inside
- Indoor café dining within a reported 1,580-square-foot footprint.
- Outside
- Definite patio seating on Piazza della Famiglia.
- When it fills up
- Piazza foot traffic can be heavy.
- Parking
- Heavy piazza-area foot traffic is reported.
Working here
Coffee-first / social
There is indoor and patio seating, but the café’s brunch, dessert and piazza traffic make it socially oriented. The 3 p. m. closing and meal-service rhythm favor a coffee meeting or short task over deep work.
Good to know
- Known for: Cupcake Wars-winning bakery items paired with Ritual Coffee
- Cupcake Wars bakery pedigree: The bakery offers winning flavors connected to its Food Network Cupcake Wars championship.
- Ritual coffee plus scratch pastry: Ritual Coffee Roasters drinks pair with a rotating scratch-made pastry and dessert program.
Events and specials
- Daily happy hour: The current official site advertises a daily 1 to 3 p.m. happy hour alongside coffee, wine and beer.
What regulars say
Coffee and atmosphere both land
Tripadvisor’s recent review index includes repeated positive themes around atmosphere, coffee and starting a Little Italy visit here.
Broad brunch appeal
Review snippets praise quick, friendly service and groups successfully ordering across coffee, BLTs, burritos, sandwiches and pastries.
Patio people-watching
Independent coverage and customer snippets consistently frame the piazza patio as part of the experience.
Events and updates
From the shop’s Instagram
Official Reel demonstrates the bakery’s detailed custom-cake work with miniature sculpted decorations.
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