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From our pastry kitchen, every day since 2010

Pastry shop, café and gelateria in Mendrisio.

Open every day · 5.30–20.00

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A cream cake decorated by hand: the piping bag sets the last rosette of cream beside the raspberries, on the white stand
Cream and raspberries
A small chocolate cake up close: the glossy glaze, a sprig of redcurrants and a white praline
Chocolate cake with redcurrants

What tempts you?

Brioches, petits fours, cakes and gelato come out of our pastry kitchen, every day.

  • A brioche up close: layered pastry dusted with icing sugar
    Brioche
  • Golden puff-pastry cream horns striped with chocolate, filled with chocolate cream and with custard
    Cream horns
  • Six macarons on a white plate: lemon, pistachio, chocolate, raspberry, vanilla and a pale blue one
    Macarons
  • Strawberries dipped in dark chocolate with white chocolate stripes, in paper cups
    Chocolate strawberries
  • A custard brioche cut in half: golden layers and pastry cream under icing sugar
    Custard brioche
  • Petits fours on a golden tray: raspberry, blueberry and lemon tartlets, glazed chestnuts, chocolate cups
    Petits fours
  • Pralines in paper cups on a white plate: white chocolate, cocoa-dusted, topped with a hazelnut, one cut open to show its filling
    Pralines
  • A golden croissant up close, glossy layers with pearl sugar
    Croissant
  • A tiramisù cake, cut: layers of cream and sponge fingers under the cocoa
    Tiramisù
  • A gelato coupe with strawberries, redcurrants, cream and the Dolce Tentazione chocolate plaque
    Strawberry coupe
  • A small chocolate cake up close: the glossy glaze, a sprig of redcurrants and a white praline
    Small chocolate cake

The whole menu

A chocolate cake on a white stand, with physalis and the Dolce Tentazione chocolate plaque
Chocolate cake, with our plaque

Colomba cakes at Easter, biscuits at Christmas, themed cakes all year

Tell us the occasion, the date and how many people: the cake is made in our pastry kitchen.

  • Themed cakes for birthdays and parties
  • Catering for weddings, christenings and office breakfasts
  • Sweet gift ideas
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Aperitivo at the Sassi Center

With the buffet, inside or on the terrace, until 20.00.

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A spritz with ice, a slice of orange and a straw, in the sun
Spritz
Squares of focaccia and pizza, with olives and tomato, on a wooden board in the sun
Focaccia

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The Dolce Tentazione sign at the entrance of the Sassi Center: the name in white on a black cube, the o of «dolce» in red
Our sign, at the Sassi Center

At the Sassi Center, next to FoxTown

We are on level G of the Sassi Center, Via Angelo Maspoli 7, Mendrisio. Tables inside and on the terrace, takeaway too.

Open every day · 5.30–20.00

Every day, Sundays included
5.30–20.00
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