Panes Bread Cafe

Race through the housemade cream of tomato soup, flanked with sweet, housebaked white bread. Plow through that merely serviceable salad. And if you can’t bring yourself to rush through the Oaxacan pork sandwich—and we wouldn’t blame you, as it’s a great sandwich, the pork and caramelized onions marrying in perfect harmony—consider taking half of it to go and savoring it at home. Because the real reason to come here is dessert—big cookies overstuffed with chocolate; luscious peanut-butter truffles—and you’re going to want to get to it as soon as you can.