Loop them eat cake

am i just clueless or are there applallingly few bakeries in the loop where a cake might be purchased? with all the office birthday and other celebrations, plus myriad random other events that take place on a daily basis, one would think that there'd be no shortage of places to buy a cake in the loop. but my research turns up hardly any. bombon cafe is the only one i found. any other places? and if so, are they any good?

corner bakery is where we go for b-days in my office usually --

You are not wrong. There is a major cake deficit in the Loop -- although Bake for Me does a cake that will serve but is not particularly fabulous.

You can purchase a cake at Macy's in the basement -- it depends on the day what's available.

You can high tail it over to Fox n Obel -- they have cakes of several different varieties but they're not exactly in the Loop.

My advice to you, as a woman who handles the birthdays in her office, is to order from your favorite bakery and have it delivered. I've done that from Alliance and Dinkels and i don't think the delivery charges were really out of line. And there is nothing better than a really really good cake when it's about 3:30 and you've had one of those, "oh my god, where is the CAKE?" days.

In fact..what time is it now????

Shannon

We have started ordering our monthly birthday cakes from Dinkel's. The cakes are good (the carrot cake went over great last month!) and, best of all, they deliver to businesses. We have also frequently ordered whole cakes from Portillo's. They have a lemon layer cake and a chocolate layer cake and both are quite tasty. The drawback with Portillo's is we have to go pick up the cakes after pre-ordering them.

Dinkel's Bakery
3329 N. Lincoln
773.281.7300

Portillo's
100 W. Ontario
312.587.8910

What ever happened to Let Them Eat Cake? That's the place from which every cake I ever ate in an office setting between about 1992 and 2001 or therabouts came. Obviously, they closed up shop, but isn't the demand still there?

Bombon is now in the loop (170 W. Washington). Expensive but soooo worth it.

Before I left my last job, someone ordered a Red Velvet cake from Fox & Obel for a celebration. It was incredible.

They usually ordered cakes from Bake for Me. I thought Bake for Me's carrot cake was very good.

Suzy

I don't know the quality or prices but Bockwinkel's market has a dessert case with a variety of cakes. At North Stetson and South Water. http://www.bockwinkels.com/