I Taught Her Everything I Know

One side of the dueling ex-husband/ex-wife French bakery battle in Park Slope was shut down by the Health Department, leading the man to graciously direct customers to visit his ex-wife’s store instead:

The feuding French bakers of Park Slope entered an uneasy détente this week.

Michael Martin, owner of Delices de Paris on Ninth Street, and his ex-wife, Rosanna Rosa of Café Zana on Seventh Avenue, are together again — that is to say their apple tarts are getting reacquainted.

The Health Department played Cupid by closing down Martin’s bakery last week after finding numerous violations. The most egregious was raw sewage in the basement.

If that isn’t romantic, here’s what is: Martin is now telling his customers to go to his ex’s bakery!

It’s a far cry from the bitter pill Martin was dispensing back in December. As reported in The Brooklyn Paper, Martin hung a sign in his window after Rosa opened a rival shop two blocks away. He claimed that Rosa was deliberately trying to steal his customers with her similar shop.

But isn’t that sort of a backhanded recommendation? Would you really want the owners of KFC to suggest an alternative?