“In the suburbs of Chicago, we met a pair of sisters, Kasia Mierzejewska and Emilia Augustyn, who moved from Poland to open up a bakery in the U.S. They sold everything — their cars and homes — for their dream. They’ve been open a year and have already been deemed the bakery with the best donuts in Illinois by Buzzfeed.”
“Everybody might go nuts when they find out where they can get the best doughnuts in Illinois, at least according to a new report.
The bakery opened last year and has become known for their take on a Hungarian dessert called “chimney cakes” — dough made from scratch that is hand rolled onto a rod and baked in a special oven before being filled with nutella, honey or peanut butter and covered in sprinkles, oreos or cinnamon and sugar.”
“In the suburbs of Chicago, we met a pair of sisters, Kasia Mierzejewska and Emilia Augustyn, who moved from Poland to open up a bakery in the U.S. They sold everything — their cars and homes — for their dream. They’ve been open a year and have already been deemed the bakery with the best donuts in Illinois by Buzzfeed.”
“Today we’d like to introduce you to Kasia Mierzejewska and Emilia Augustyn.
Kasia and Emilia, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
My sister (Emilia Augustyn) and I (Kasia Mierzejewska) moved to the USA from Poland in 2015. The same year we have opened our pastry/coffee shop.”
“Sisters Kasia Mierzejewska and Emilia Augustyn launched last month Sweet Sushi Factory—a company that re-imagines sushi as vegan dessert. The sisters first developed the concept when they were both pregnant (Mierzejewska is due in two weeks) and craved sweets that would be safe to consume and free of allergens.”
“Usually when restaurants claim to be authentically European, it’s an exaggeration – but not at the Heart of Europe Café in downtown Barrington.
Two sisters, Kasia Mierzejewska, 25, and Emilia Augustyn, 29, have brought Poland to our area. Two years ago they both had successful jobs in their Polish homeland, but they had a dream.”
“Sisters Kasia Mierzejewska, left, and Emilia Augustyn have been busy this week, ever since the popular website BuzzFeed declared Sunday that their bakery, The Heart of Europe Cafe in Barrington, served the best doughnuts in Illinois.”
“If you love doughnuts, then this is the place you need to visit. As this doughnut shop was declared to be the best in our state and it’s only an hour from Rockford.
According to BuzzFeed’s “The Best Doughnut Shop in Every State” they used the help of Yelp to uncover the best place for doughnuts in each of our 50 states and declared a small shop run by two sister’s in Barrington, to be our state’s best place.”
“The Heart of Europe Cafe was chosen as the best place to get a doughnut in the state in an article published this past week on Buzzfeed.
Buzzfeed selected the top doughnut shops in every state in its Oct. 9 article, signaling out the Heart of Cafe as the place to go for donuts in Illinois.
The cafe, opened last year by sisters Kasia Mierzejewska and Emilia Augustyn after they moved from Poland to Barrington, has been especially busy since the article went live, according to the Daily Herald.”
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