My b/f and I are doing an in-depth study to find the very best cannoli in New England, but we need your help!
If you have a favorite place anywhere in N.E., please let me know where it is, and we will try to get there. Alternatively, if any chefs out there have a good recipe for either filling or the shell, I would love to read it.
Thanks!
Honey, there’s only only place to get cannoli in New England. Mike’s Pastry Shop, Hanover Street, Boston. That’s all you need to know. 
Ok you guys come on down to southeastern Connecticut, or southwestern Rhode Island. Westerly has a multitudinous of fine Italian bakeries where you can find amazing Canoli. Fortuna’s off granit street I think is fabulous, and Orisini’s in Groton Connecticut is wonderful as well. You will not be dissappointed!!
Oh I’m hungry
Thanks, missbunny and Phlosphr .
We just tried Mike’s for the first time last night, after splitting one at Modern, just up the street. There looked like there were a bunch of places on the back streets in the North End to get them, so we’ll have to make a weekend excursion - for research purposes only. Anything for science!
, from this and other posts you’ve made, I’ve deduced that the college you teach at is one that I came close to attending. It had a beautiful campus, and if there are good cannolis right there, I’ll be sorry I wound up elsewhere 
One more thing - so far, the best we’ve found are at La Fiorentina in Springfield and Northampton, MA. Not too sweet, perfectly creamy, while dense, filling with chocolate chips throughout. A bargain at $1.30 each!
:eek: sshhhhh!!!
Thank you the campus is very nice, I often invite Mrs.Phlosphr up to campus for lunch on the lacross field. We always get heckled by some of my students, a lot of "ooooo Mr.Phlosphr … " and even a few … "Hey Mr.Phlosphr, does Mrs.Phlosphr have any sisters??’
thats when I usually give a :dubious: look.
Mithril, I’m pretty sure almost every place in Boston gets their cannoli from Mike’s, or so I’ve heard. I’d bet the one at the Modern was from there. Although maybe this will be a good excuse to do a line-up and see if you can tell if they’re different or not!
Mithril, I’m pretty sure almost every place in Boston gets their cannoli from Mike’s, or so I’ve heard. I’d bet the one at the Modern was from there. Although maybe this will be a good excuse to do a line-up and see if you can tell if they’re different or not!
You people are making me so jealous! I moved from Long Island to California years ago and it would seem that there is no such thing as an edible cannoli out here. Simply disgusting misrepresentations of such a heavenly treat.
So, have any west coast dopers had any luck?
Don’t worry - your secret’s safe with me
Modern’s had a different shell, and was somewhat sweeter, so I think they make their own. But what you say does make sense, because there were so many cafes with cannoli that didn’t seem to have the appropriate facilities to make them. This is compared to Federal Hill in Providence, where we have so far only been able to find one bakery with any cannoli at all - and it was made with whipped cream, not cheese :eek:
Those people are going straight to hell, don’t you worry. They’ll get just what they deserve.
Whipped cream in a pastry shell, masquerading as a cannoli . . . it’s just so . . . wrong.
All of this talk of cannoli’s made me remember that the closest thing I ever got to a cannoli in california was Ben and Jerry’s “Holy Cannoli” ice cream.
Is that any good? I think of soggy cannoli shells as sacrilege, so have not tried the ice cream version.
Have you tried making your own? The process isn’t hard, but I still need to find the perfect recipe.
I liked the ice cream quite a bit. (past tense, it is no longer available). The shells weren’t as soggy as you would think. The idea of ice cream with cheese in it might not appeal to everyone but I didn’t mind in the least.
Yes, the next step is making them. I haven’t really searched out a recipe yet but I apparently will have to if I ever want to taste one without traveling a long distance.