"Tuck it away," Tucky says, within eyeshot of this Washington Heights bakery. And $8, as it happens, was the total for my two-course takeout meal — a Cuban sandwich, chased by a guava-and-cheese pastel from one of the neighborhood's more tempting displays of Dominican sweets.
5 Estrella Bakery
3861 Broadway (at West 161st St.), Manhattan
212-795-5000
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