Best Breads

Tasteez is a very well-bread market. Pastry chef/chocolatier Michael Bortz creates artisan loaves with crackly, chewy crusts and soft, textured interiors that hold the scents of hearth and home. Every day, Bortz sets out boules, baguettes, ciabatta and brioche -- a sweet, raisin-studded bread that makes first-rate French toast -- along with specials that include stollen, the German Christmas yeast bread that's filled with dried fruit and encrusted in sugar. This bread is a real slice of life.