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Ninth Street has become Park Slope’s de facto “Rue de la Patisserie” thanks to three French-style bakeries opening up recently — but now the strip is earning another name: “Rue du Divorce Acerbe.”
Two exes each own a pastry shop: one is the shop they built together, Delices de Paris, and the other is the just-opened patisserie on Seventh Avenue that will be called Zana Café.
Owner Rosana Rosa opened the cute shop without her ex-husband, Michael Martin — with whom she opened Delices de Paris during happier times six years ago.
At her new joint, she sells French-Italian pastries and European products — just like Delices de Paris. And her walls are painted happy yellow — just like Delices de Paris.
No wonder Martin hung a sign in his front window (inset) telling his customers that he has nothing to do with his ex’s new shop — despite how much it looks like Delices de Paris.
“They are completely different products,” he said. “She used the same [paint] to mislead the customers and make them think that the two shops are related.”
Sacre bleu! What’s worse is that Rosa remains Martin’s partner in the original shop.
“Sure, there is competition, but so what? Each block in Park Slope is different, there are people who live up here and don’t even know about the shop down near Fifth Avenue,” Rosa said recently.
Rosa also said she has nothing to be ashamed of: “I built Delices de Paris with my own hands. When we began, there was no place in Park Slope to get a chocolate croissant, now you have Colson Patisserie on Sixth Avenue and everyone is doing the French thing.”
What about her ex-husband’s sign on his door?
“Well you know divorce is tough, it is complicated,” she explained. “Some people never get over it.”
They may never get over it, but the result is that Ninth Street is looking more like the place to get plenty of dish with that croissant.
©2006 The Brooklyn Paper
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