The Dormont Business District Advisory Committee is pleased to feature Sugar Café as its quarterly downtown recognition recipient. Sugar Café, located on Potomac Avenue in the heart of Dormont, is a vibrant, welcoming place to get comforting breakfasts, artisan sandwiches, slow cooked soups, fresh local salads, and La Prima coffee. Local restaurant critics have touted the 24-seat café, painted in bright turquoise hues, as a prime spot for brunch. Most recently, fans voted Sugar as one of Pittsburgh's best bakeries in a readers' poll in Pittsburgh Magazine. The café is also home to coffee zealots who enjoy bottomless cups of Sugar's very own blend of La Prima coffee and free Wi-Fi. Of course, no one can forget the delicious homemade pastries and desserts produced from scratch daily.  

The wildly popular breakfast and weekend brunches serve up such items as cinnamon French toast with caramelized bananas, homemade granola, smoked salmon bagel sandwiches, and oatmeal with honey, toasted almonds, candied ginger, and blueberries. Daily, the café also makes fruit and streusel muffins, biscotti, and cream scones to enjoy in the dining room or to take home. On the weekends, Sugar Café serves breakfast all day and offers unconventional specials. Lunch offerings include hand-carved turkey and ham sandwiches, grilled vegetable wraps, salads, and homemade soups. Sugar's bakers are hard at work every day creating delectable treats in their mezzanine-level pastry studio and the seasonal selection changes daily. Examples of their most coveted desserts include lemon pound cake, assorted cupcakes like the Irish Car Bomb (dark chocolate stout cake soaked in whisky with Bailey's butter cream frosting), bread pudding, Grand Marnier cheesecake, chocolate chip and sugar cookies, French macaroons, and chocolate tarts. Pittsburgh Magazine summed it up best: "Is it any wonder that this small café, which opened last year, instantly earned the love of local pastry fanatics?"

In the community, Sugar Café's charitable contributions include pastry donations to SIDS of Pennsylvania, Make a Wish Foundation, and Variety the Children's Charity. They also hosted a soup dinner for hunger relief benefitting Just Harvest with bowls crafted by local artists. On February 23, 2012, Sugar Café hosted a book signing party with local author, Lindsay Smith, with proceeds furthering the Strong Women, Strong Girls Organization. Upcoming plans for 2012 include an Alice and Wonderland themed tea party slated for March, the highly anticipated evening of culinary delights at the sixth annual Taste of Dormont, and Dormont's beloved October Street Fair.

Sugar Café is open daily from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m.