Dessert Breakfast at Tatte

Tatte Bakery and Cafe is a chain restaurant in the Cambridge-Boston area. Similar to Flour, they serve breakfast items, pastries, cakes and other kinds of sweets. Tatte feels and tastes a little more upscale. I visited their store in Harvard Square for breakfast.        My breakfast. See, so modest! I only ended up…

Volcanic Ice Cream Break at Ice Cream Jubilee

You know those times when you are so hungry and stressed with deadlines and you are feeling really exasperated, so instead of rushing to knock out as many deadlines as possible, you take a 30 minute train ride and try out a new ice cream place? No? Just me? Finnneee. Anyway, I had one of those…

I saw Santa Claus, and his name is Thomas Haas

It’s winter break and I’m back in Vancouver!! After being away for a few months, I always like to check out new places, visit old haunts and see how the city has changed. Naturally, no trip back to Vancity is complete without a visit to Thomas Haas. This time, I went just a couple of…

Pandan and Duck Confit at Kyirisan

Michelin recently released DC’s first Michelin Guide and 19 restaurants made the Bib Gourmand list. Bib Gourmand means Michelin thinks the restaurant is good value, where you can get 2 courses and a dessert or a glass of wine for $40 or less. Basically, it means gourmet cheap eats, Michelin approved. Naturally,…naturally, I had to…

Vibrant, Virtuous, Vegan Nice Vice Creamy

Needing something sweet and icy today to cool down from the Vancouver summer(a balmy 20 degrees,  but still, it’s approaching hot for Vancouver), I went to Yaletown. Now, I normally prefer a rich gelato, the chewier and creamier the better, but Nice Vice Creamy completely blew me away. Nice Vice makes gluten and soy-free, non-dairy,…

Birthday Breakfast at Thomas Haas

Once upon a time, there was a girl, she did not like flowers, and she did not find them pretty. She did not broadcast this fact, because she did not want people to find her weird. Still, when a naive boy sent her flowers once, she slammed the door shut and muttered, “XXX!” She still…

Alpha Up Beta5: A CreamPuffed Afternoon

It was disgustingly hot (not a fan of summer) and we had one last stop on our trip. The much heard about (and dreamed about and IGed about) Beta5. It was a long way to travel. There were shady people around and did I mention it was hot? Cuz it was. Still we persevered and…

An Ode to Thomas Haas

Oh Thomas, how can I put my love for you into words… I’ve been going to Thomas Haas longer than I remember. Each visit always fills me with happiness and warmth because Thomas’s pastries and cakes always maintain their excellent quality. I have not had a bad experience at Thomas. I dragged Nafiza there a…