Some restaurants have a secret sauce or a signature drink.

Not Forno Toscano Bistro, one of the newest and hippest additions to the dining scene in Saratoga Springs, a city with probably more restaurants per person than any other community in our region.

Instead, Forno Toscano enjoys a secret pastry chef who toils downstairs one level below the wood-fired pizza oven on the restaurant’s main floor.

She makes the best tiramisu and cannolis I have ever tasted, and is experimenting with savory pizzas, thin-crust concoctions topped with bittersweet chocolate. She also has a hand in some of the fresh pasta dishes, making life a wee bit easier for Fabrizio Bazzani, the talented executive chef at both Chianti Il Ristorante and Forno Toscano, its new sister restaurant.

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