#Newsflash | A Slice of Heaven! Italian Pastry Shop/Cafe Opens in LIC

The panettone came first. The pumpkin spice cappuccino, cornetto, panini, torrone dei morti, and white-fig-buffalo-cheese-hazelnut crumble followed.

Santa Chiara Caffè is now open for Italian gems in Long Island City.

To borrow a few terms, it’s a pasticceria, caffetteria, gelateria artigianale, cioccolateria, and proseccheria. It also has an outdoor space with inspiring views of Midtown Manhattan.

The roughly 850-square-foot venue, located at the base of a 44-story residential property at 52-41 Center Blvd., hosted the first-ever New York Panettone Festival last December. The four-day event attracted many of the world’s most famous Maestri Pasticcieri Italiani, including Iginio Massari and Giuseppe Zippo.

It also helped inspire Cristiano Rossi to open Santa Chiara Caffé. (Foodies might remember Italy-born Rossi from Borsalia in Williamsburg.)

Smart money says the New York Panettone Festival will return in December.

Images: Santa Chiara Caffè