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Joseph Amrani poses with a fraisier, a French strawberry sponge cake, at his Delice et Chocolat on Lancaster Avenue in Ardmore on June 13, 2023. A master plan process is underway for Ardmore, with a focus on the Lancaster Avenue business district. Amrani's coffee, pastry, breakfast and lunch spot is in a renovated former Radio Shack location that had hidden all the architectural details. It's a showcase for the sort of redevelopment the plan hopes to encourage.
Joseph Amrani poses with a fraisier, a French strawberry sponge cake, at his Delice et Chocolat on Lancaster Avenue in Ardmore on June 13, 2023. A master plan process is underway for Ardmore, with a focus on the Lancaster Avenue business district. Amrani's coffee, pastry, breakfast and lunch spot is in a renovated former Radio Shack location that had hidden all the architectural details. It's a showcase for the sort of redevelopment the plan hopes to encourage.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer

Delice et Chocolat

Montgomery CountyFrench$$

Grab a coffee and choose an impossibly gorgeous confection from the pastry case. French brothers Joseph and Antoine Amrani opened this charming café and patisserie in 2017, bringing their decades of culinary expertise and a rainbow of macarons to their little corner of Lancaster Avenue. If you don’t feel like indulging your sweet tooth, you can find lunch items like croque monsieur sandwiches, salads, and quiche.

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