You’d be hard-pressed to find a gourmet in Beirut who hasn’t heard of Oslo. Nayla Audi first opened the cake and ice-cream shop in 1997, in the Mar Mikhael neighborhood, infusing traditional flavors from rose to frères tea into decadent desserts. “It’s very famous,” says Nayla’s eldest daughter, Yasmine Audi. “Most people in town know it.”
Yasmine, 32, and Julie, 29, opened a Milan outpost of the beloved pâtisserie in April, which they named Oslo—Made in Heaven as a nod to their best-selling “angel cake,” a fluffy, cloud-like confection that originated in the American South. The design-forward space, near the upscale Quadrilatero della Moda neighborhood, features cream-and-gold-tiled floors and sleek wooden stools, echoing the ethereal, almost dreamlike aesthetic of the cake.
