Dafna's Cheese Cake Factory is in Wavertree (not far from Penny Lane) and, like the Beatles, is another Liverpool institution (thanks to Stephanie de Leng for the picture above). They even have postcards, with an artist's drawing of this lovely shop:
Bizarrely I managed to go to Dafna's Cheese Cake Factory and not buy any cheesecake (is cheese cake one word or two?)! But I did buy some very nice cakes.
It's a lovely old shop run by Anne (who's from Liverpool). Anne's partner, Yacov (who's from Israel) does deliveries and makes the tea. Dafna apparently is a Hebrew name for Laurel. Anne started making cheesecake in the early seventies, after having tasted a particularly good one in Chicago. 
Besides cheesecake they also sell chocolates:
Do what I did and try a Dafna's selection box, which contains ginger cake, mocha cake, lemon cake, carrot cake, a chocolate fudge brownie and orange cake with blueberries - and you'll still have change from a fiver.
Their Liverpool tarts (essential eating for any scouser) are made using a recipe dating back to 1897 with muscavado sugar, lemon, butter and egg, and come complete with an image of a Liver bird on:
Dafna's Cheese Cake Factory
240 Smithdown Road
Liverpool
L15 5AH
Tel: 0151 733 7808
Web: www.dafna.co.uk
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