Ohh No! David Glass Desserts in Bloomfield is closing!

[jquest619]

This is terrible! Here is the link to the article in today's Hartford Courant.

http://www.courant.com/business/hc-da...

It will be missed. I sincerely hope they have the ability to reopen someday.

[ratbuddy]

Billy Grant or the person behind the Max Group should grab this guy. They'd add a local name brand and keep the sweet stuff flowing.

[shaogo]

That's a great idea. (The guy behind the Max Group is Richard Rosenthal).

I seem to recall that I read somewhere that it's actually David Glass's wife who has the recipes and does some of the execution.

It'd sure be quite a few steps down from having a large-scale commercial baking operation for Glass to take a job as a pastry chef somewhere -- even for a goup of restaurants.

[Tinkerbelldee]

I never got the hype. Overpriced frozen desserts. Local news this morning says that he is looking into opening a small retail location.
No big loss in my book.

[shaogo]

I very, very rarely complain about what things cost. However, David Glass's desserts were a bit dear for what you get. I guess it's the New Yorker in me; used to getting great pastries at a lower price.

Here's the good news: as they say, "nature abhors a vacuum." David Glass's absence will leave a gaping hole in the gourmet scene up here in Connecticut. Someone's bound to jump in.

[rudysmom]

i was in Kane's earlier today. thought long & hard about buying a couple of cakes to throw in the freezer and later auction off on eBay :)

[FoodieJim]

This result was pretty much assured when he started taking in investors, offering to pay them back in goods. I had heard a couple months ago that the operation was going to shut down, but hoped they might find a way out. Well, I guess it's off to Highland Park to find a chocolate truffle cake one last time and taste the end of an era with a nice glass of port to go along with it.