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Sant Ambroeus is the Milanese café institution — founded in Milan in the 1930s, arrived in New York in the mid-1980s — with locations in Manhattan (Upper East Side, SoHo, West Village, Midtown), the Hamptons, Palm Beach, and Milan. It's famous for its Principessa cake: a lemon oil sponge layered with vanilla bean pastry cream and whipped cream, draped in signature pink almond marzipan. A 14-inch cake starts at $200; individual slices are $16 to $19. CNN named it 'the world's most fashionable dessert' in August 2026 — up to 400 slices are served daily across all locations.

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