I will put a shamless plug for Delightful Pastries, we make our banana nut bread from scratch, using fresh bananas, butter and great local vanilla made by Nielsen-Massey. Our banana nut bread was just written up in Time Out Chicago in their "Combos you Crave" section. We also make zuchinni bread, carrot cake and pumpkin bread from scratch as well.
Here is our locations
1710 N Wells
5927 W Lawrence
French Market, 131 N Clinton
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