Even in California, I can read about the new bakery/cafe on Ninth Street and Sixth Avenue. Now I’ll walk up Sixth Avenue to 9th Street (stop at Colson) then go to the F-Train on my sojouns into Manhattan. Cool. A new route that ends in pastry. Woo Hoo. Here’s the word on Pâtisserie Colson from Francis Fabricant of the NY Times.

Hubert Colson owns a pastry shop in Mons, Belgium. Yonatan Israel, a
native of Paris, is a filmmaker in New York. Together they have opened
Pâtisserie Colson, a trim little pastry shop and cafe at 374 Ninth
Street (Sixth Avenue), Park Slope, Brooklyn; (718) 965-6400. Mr. Israel
was able to spend some time in Mons learning how to run a bakery
because his father is a business partner of Mr. Colson’s. Mr. Israel
hired Michelle Doll-Olson to do the baking, using some of Mr. Colson’s
recipes: pains au chocolat ($2 each); financiers, some topped with dark
chocolate (75 cents and $1.50); chocolate mousse ($3.50); an
almond-scented Belgian rice pudding tart ($3.50); and a folded brioche
with raisins or chocolate ($2.50). Homemade ice cream and waffles are
also served, along with sandwiches, salads and cheese plates, and beer
and wine.