Cake

I've lived in the Clinton Hill / Fort Greene milieu for close to a year, and yet today was the first time I entered the establishment of Cake Man Raven on Fulton Street. (It happened purely by coincidence; I bumped into Helen as she was on her way there). Cake Man Raven is a specialty baker who can be hired to make cakes in any fantastical shape you wish, but you wouldn't know it looking at the storefront itself, because they only sell one item: individual slices of red velvet cake in plastic deli boxes. That's it — the entire refrigerated display case is just rows and rows of identical pieces of red velvet cake. It's worth checking out even if you don't buy anything, because it's one of the closest things to magical realism and/or Spike Jonzian, Wes Andersonian quirk that you're likely to see in real life.

Cake Man Raven Confectionery