One of my Next Door neighbors also mentioned Black Bear
Diner as a potential source for bear claws. Black Bear isn’t a bakery per se
(the “Diner” in the name should be a tip off) but they do have a display of
baked goods near the cashier. Another person had commented on my bear claw
thread that Black Bear’s bear claws were “expensive and tasteless” while
another said they were “huge”. I decided
to see for myself.
In a fortuitous set of circumstances, it turns out
there’s a Black Bear Diner literally on my way to work. That’s the advantage of
recommendations from Next Door; they really will tell you what’s in your
neighborhood. So it was no problem at all, on one of my non-gym-running
mornings, to make a brief stop to secure a bear claw. They were considerably
more than the $2.50 bear claw at Copenhagen and clocked in at $5.99. So I
didn’t buy 6 this time and instead settled for one. Given the negative review
on them, I decided I should try them out for myself first rather than offering
one to Eileen, untested. If it was delicious, I could get another one the next
morning and declare the bear claw hunt at an end.
But alas, it wasn’t to be. The bear claw was indeed huge.
They were indeed expensive. And yes, they were also indeed tasteless. By that I
mean, the pastry itself was not of the flaky, airy quality of a Copenhagen
bakery. It didn’t even begin to approach a croissant’s flakiness. Maybe more on
par with an Entemann’s strudel dough. It was heavy and dense in texture. The
claws were also not quite claw-like and instead made the whole thing look more
like a crown than a mockery of a bear claw.
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