Rising NYC Pastry Star Camari Mick Heads a New Pop-Up Cafe at Nolita’s Michelin-Starred Musket Room

EMP alum Camari Mick brings breakfast sandwiches and baked goods to the Musket Room

A vintage van slinging breads, baked goods, and other pastries has popped up in front of the Musket Room, chef Mary Attea’s Michelin-starred restaurant in Nolita. The new pop-up cafe, dubbed MR All-Day, showcases sought-after treats from rising pastry star Camari Mick, who will be serving guava cream cheese doughnuts, loaves of Japanese-style milk bread, and miso-maple sausage and egg breakfast sandwiches from the truck’s side window. Dishes from the Musket Room — including its mushroom and sweet potato bao and pork katsu sando — will also be available during afternoons.

Mick’s role at the new takeout bread operation is preceded by stints at some of the city’s hottest restaurants, including Le Bernardin, Eleven Madison Park, TAK Room, and Daniel Boulud’s db Bistro Moderne. More recently, she served her pastries from another window, that of Maison Yaki in Prospect Heights, as part of the restaurant’s Black entrepreneur pop-up series. There, the popular pastry chef served pavlova with pear sorbet, vegan panna cotta, and her knockout fig and date sticky toffee pudding.

MR All-Day is open Fridays from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. (closed from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.), and Saturdays and Sundays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The van will be parked in front of the Musket Room indefinitely, according to a spokesperson for the restaurant, and customers can expect to see additional days of service rolled out in the near future.

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