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The Best Pastries in Oak Lawn: You Decide

Help us decide who makes the best pastries in the Oak Lawn area.

 

It’s time for another Chowdown Showdown, our weekly feature that will not only give you great ideas on where to eat, but will allow you to tell everyone why your favorite spot is the best. 

The Chowdown Showdown pits Palos, Evergreen Park and Oak Lawn restaurants against each other to decide who makes a particular dish best. Before the competition starts, we need your ideas on who our Palos representative should be. 

Read: Say Cheese: Who Makes the Best Cheeseburger?

This week's showdown is a bit more open-ended. We are looking for the best pastry in town. Does a certain bakery serve up some top quality doughnuts? Is there an independent grocery store that makes a mean cinnamon roll? How about kolacky or Danish? The winner then will go on to face the best of Palos and Evergreen.

How to Vote

There are three ways to vote for your favorite.

  1. Leave a comment on this article and tell us your pick and why you think they are the best. 
  2. Find your pick in our Oak Lawn Patch Places Directory and leave a review and tell the world just how good their pastries are. 
  3. Go to the Oak Lawn Patch Facebook page and tell us your pick. 

Get your votes in by Monday at 10 a.m. We will announce the winner and share the results of our taste test on Wednesday.

That's Not All . . .

The Oak Lawn Patch Places Directory allows you to leave reviews of your all your favorite place in town. From auto shops to eye doctors, hot dog stands to churches, find them in the directory and tell everyone why they are great.  

Start Reviewing and Rating


Related Topics: Chowdown Showdown, Readers' Choice, Readers' Choice 2012, and food & drink
Who makes the best pastry in Oak Lawn? Huck Finn Donuts? Velvet Cake Bakery? Somewhere else? Tell us in the comments.

Jimmy D

8:25 am on Friday, April 20, 2012

Tuzik's Bakery. It's all good there...don't understand being closed on Sunday's.

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Richard

6:34 pm on Friday, April 20, 2012

I agree, they are very good and almost unbelievably cheap, too. They're closed Sun. and Mon., too. Can't tell you how often I've wanted to stop in there on one of those two days of the week.

CJM

8:57 am on Friday, April 20, 2012

Just thinking about Tuzik's makes my blood sugar rise! I wanna get on a plane and head straight there.

Kolackis, cake donuts, apple slices, pumpkin donuts, plum pull-aparts, butter cookies, cakes. I wonder if they deliver.....

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BibbidyBobbidyBoo

9:16 am on Friday, April 20, 2012

I say it is Tuzik's. Consistently the best pastries, great service. You cannot walk out of that place with just one thing!

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Eric

9:47 am on Friday, April 20, 2012

Huck Finn donuts! The apple fritter is amazing!

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Mary Kay Barton

10:04 am on Friday, April 20, 2012

Tuziks without a doubt are the best.

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ME

10:31 am on Friday, April 20, 2012

Tuziks has the worst paczki's. Yuc!...dry, no taste. The sweet rolls are good. OL doesn't have a really great bakery.

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sb

7:49 am on Saturday, April 21, 2012

Most south siders love Tuziks and Webers but for paczki's, I make the drive every year to Fleckensteins at 191 & LaGrange, Mokena. Hands down the best I have ever had.

Tom

7:14 pm on Friday, April 20, 2012

Huck finn. Awesome donuts.

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STM

12:35 am on Saturday, April 21, 2012

Tuziks and Velvet cake at 95th & 52nd av.

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zula 5

8:55 am on Saturday, April 21, 2012

I drive to Webers on archer.

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Glen Kato

9:49 am on Saturday, April 21, 2012

I think Huck Finn is great for donuts.

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Paul

3:08 pm on Monday, April 30, 2012

Huck Finn has the best donuts by far!!

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