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The front door at this Wicker Park cafe is the event horizon. Pass through and your eyes are instantly drawn to the pastry case—specifically to a squat doughnut, draped in a glossy auburn shell. It pulls you closer, at once reflecting and absorbing you, its luminosity affirming the illusion of your instincts, its depths denying your will to resist.

Staring into this caramel abyss for the first time, you’d never fathom the yeasted infinity within.

It came to Reema Patel in a dream. All of the pastry chef’s creations here are informed by a synthesis of Filipino and Ind

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