2:30pm toffee brioche

The moment we walked into Maialino searching for an afternoon treat we could feel the energy. The room fairly hummed with it. It felt like every table was a group of people involved in making, creating, dreaming the world we live in. I think if I had walked into the Rainbow Room in its heyday I might have fainted from the aura of such amazing people gathering to lunch and talk business. On a more mundane note, when I bit into the toffee brioche, I said aloud to M., "This tastes like a cinnamon roll. Like a really really delicious cinnamon roll."
Maialino, 2 Lexington Ave, NY, NY 10010 (at corner of 21st St)