Location: 738 Cambridge St., East Cambridge, MA Having just moved to Boston, one of our explorations took us to the Royal Pastry Shop on Cambridge Street. We chose a very simple chocolate cupcake. It was divine. Open since 1941, there are now two other locations feeding locals delicious American and Italian pastries. I’m looking forward to being … Continue reading
Location: 184 Lakeshore Road East Oakville, ON L6J I’m happy to announce that I have found possibly the best apple pie, ever. It exists at Black Forest Pastry Shop in Oakville and is only $12.99! After popping it into the oven for a few minutes, it came out flaky yet melted in the mouth. The … Continue reading
Location: 300 Hanover Street Boston, MA www.mikespastry.com Is it touristy? Yes. The woman behind the counter insisted that we take a plastic “Mike’s Pastry” bag for our box even though we had a bag we were going to put it into. Nothing like advertising by carrying their logo, right? Is it ridiculously crowded, ALL THE … Continue reading
Toronto Life just reported that a new location of SOMA (the chocolate shop in the Distillery District) will be opening at King and Spadina (443 King Street West)! Mmm…..house made gelato in time for summer?
Location: Clam Shell 148 High Street Edinburgh Must. Try. Deep Fried Mars Bar. The Clam Shell on High Street complied. Even posing for pictures. While we waited… * At last….. That was one hot mess… This much grease can’t be good for anything. Glad I tried it, but the DFMB is not for me…maybe it’s the … Continue reading
Just in time for Saturday morning’s breakfast! I’d only ever made Aunt Jemima pancakes when I was younger so when I found this recipe for pancakes on Allrecipes.com (with 4.5 stars and 3,327 reviews!), I had to try it. It’s easily the best pancake recipe, ever, and the only one I use and will continue … Continue reading
Location: somewhere in Delhi www.haldiram.com Anyone who has ever visited an Indian family’s home or is Indian is familiar with the Haldiram’s symbol. See below (image from Google) No Indian tea-time is complete without Haldiram’s. A bag of bhel puri or chiwda will always be kicking around the cupboard of an Indian home. So think … Continue reading
Location: 99 Yorkville Avenue, Toronto www.morocochocolat.com Our friend whose baby shower we threw treated us to a fabulous evening at Morocco, er, sorry MoRoCo, not like the North African country. A very lush and lavish, sumptuous, velvety, romantic place. We had tea and more tea. The selections were highly unusual and came in little test … Continue reading
Location: 112 Clematis St West Palm Beach FL www.sloansonline.com One of the prettiest candy stores I’ve ever been to has got to be Sloan’s in West Palm Beach, Florida. It’s PINK! And has fancy lamps and a painted ceiling and they have chocolates and delicious ice-creams!! We had a caramel-and-nut-filled chocolate which got wrapped up … Continue reading
Location: 134 Banff Avenue Banff, AB www.cows.ca There’s no better place to pick up an ice-cream cone than from one named Cows, don’t you think? They have a giant cow in the entrance and lots of souvenirs/t-shirts to buy (fairly pricey, though!) Although the ice-cream didn’t blow me away, I have to say even being … Continue reading
