Dueling Dishes: Battle Strawberry Croissant

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • February 4, 2011
Today, we pit two strawberry croissants from two local bakeries against each other. The defending champion is Cream Pan's famous strawberry croissant ($2.30): the one thing that trumps everything else it does, a pastry that sells out by the...
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