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It's Tuesday and that means it's time to check out another spot that makes up the best of New Jersey. And today we're in for a treat as meteorologist Mike Rizzo brings us to pastry loo in Metuchen. Are you looking for a good pastry here in New Jersey? I'll tell you right here at Pastry Lou. I'm with Chef Lou right here and this place is the place to be right here in Metuchen. So Chef Lou tell me, what's your story? What brought you here? Oh my gosh. Thank you so much for being here. Of course. My story goes back when I was in Dominican Republic. I was only 20 years old when I started baking. I started getting trained over there uh in Dr with some amazing pastry chef from my c and it was very good. Uh I came, I came here when uh 14 years ago and I started getting trained in the French Culinary Institute. I start making since I was super young and I never expect that this was gonna be my uh my end of history. Look at it. You have it, it is my fashion. I started this business three years ago in me and it's been great. I get a lot of support from the community. I feel very blessed to be here. My business is growing. We are actually now expanding. We are moving in the same history. So it's gonna be a bigger location. We will be able to do more, offer more, make more coffee, create more play more. I love. I'm so this is, listen, everybody if you ever had a passion project your entire life right here. This is evidence that you could make that dream come true. Chef Liu, right here in Natasha, we're gonna dive deeper later in this morning show to show you all of the things that they have to serve. Here. It is amazing. Stay tuned for that.

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It's Tuesday and that means it's time to check out another spot that makes up the best of New Jersey. And today we're in a treat in for a treat. As meteorologist Mike Rizzo brings us to Pastry loo in Metuchen. We're back at Pastry Lou. Let me tell you, it's not just about the pastries, it's about the beverages as well. I'm with the man, the coffee man right here. Juan Valdez. Hey man, tell me what we got. We have an eclectic mix here. What's this? Yes, we have a few drinks that we have on this plate right here. This is our signature drinks from place I have here a roast macha latte. It is a chao milk that we make in the house with macha powder and dehydrated roses on top. It gives it a very uh floral uh summery taste. Also, we have here a very Dominican breakfast. Cafe cone. It is very traditional in the art to have cafe cone, evaporated milk, bring all that coffee and that smokiness to the milk and it's very, that's delicious. And this one here, this is a creation you made, right? This is amazing. Watch this. Listen to this. So this is a sparkling Americano. I mean, I, I it is so simple. Um It is sparkling water with American coffee. I'm gonna demonstrate how it looks. It looks like a Guinness beer. It's beautiful. I mean, and it's so refreshing. It is so good. This is an idea. Of course, I would have never thought about, never even considered. But now, oh my gosh, look at that and it makes it so it's so beautiful to look at. Beautiful. Thank you so much. This is the place to be. If you want a pastry, if you want a delicious beverage, whether it be for breakfast or lunch, you come right here in Matua.

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It's Tuesday and that means it's time to check out another spot that makes up the best of New Jersey. And today we're in for a treat as meteorologist Mike Rizzo brings us to Pastry loo in mccutchen. We're back at Pastry loo and there's a bunch of different pastries that you can try right here in Metuchen. So, Chef Lou, what do we have? This is an amazing display. Thank you here at Pastry Lou. We make everything from scratch and we have our own recipes. So these are cheesecakes. You have different kinds like a sister's cake that has caramelized coffee cream. That ones, we also have some gluten free options. Oh, that's important too because not everyone could have a right. So what's over here? This is your specialty, right. Yes. Here pu we created a whole line of different translation flavors. If you go to any Latin country, you will find the traditional, of course, uh translations. Well, here we have created a line that includes coffee, mango, passion fruit, gua, and cream, banana and cream birthday cake. And you have some savory items in this display. Yes. Here we have our croissants des and everything is made here in house and then we make everything daily, the cookies, the, the danishes, the econs, everything I want like this right here. You have a guava empanada. Where does that come from? This is a pry that reminds me of my grandma. She used to always make these cookies that had like guava inside for me. So that's why I created this empanada in to the store. And it's actually one of the most popular pest here. I'm sure. Of course, anything that comes from grandma has to be some of the best sellers for sure. It's all from family right here at Pastry loo in the time.

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It's Tuesday and that means it's time to check out another spot that makes up the best of New Jersey. And today we're in for a treat as meteorologist Mike Rizzo brings us to Pastry loo in Metuchen. We're back at Pastry Lou with Chef Lou and Juan Coffee Master here. Look at this delicious spread. So what do we have here? Chef Lou? So we have our heart pound cookie, which is our most popular cookie. That one has chocolate chips, mash, mellows and Capitan crunch. It. Actually a slogan that goes with the cookie is the cookie that people must share. I would totally share that. So we also have the gua empanadas, the raspberry empanadas, our Italian croissant, our American croissant or mish our traditional in mango. Tre those right? There are your specialties, right? And of course, empanadas come from grandma. You said that's beautiful in this chocolate cake, in the triple chocolate cake. All of our desserts and pieces have a Latin influence. Even the coffees too because you got a aada right in this. So what what do we have here? This is just your classic, right? That's your, that's your creation. It my goal too. It is my sparkling Americano, my classic Dominican cafe cone and a Ocha house made with rose petals, which is called the Roast the rose macho. This place is beautiful. It is amazing. We just want everybody to feel welcome and to feel the freshness and quality that we put in all of our desserts and pastries. I love that. This place is expanding to everybody. They have a brand new grand opening coming up soon down the block right here in downtown, the touch in. Check it out right here at Pastry Loom.

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News 12's Mike Rizzo visited Pastry Lu, a pastry shop in Metuchen, for this week's Best of New Jersey.

Best of New Jersey: Pastry Lu in Metuchen serves up tasty treats

News 12's Mike Rizzo visited Pastry Lu, a pastry shop in Metuchen, for this week's Best of New Jersey.

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