Dessert-o-licious

Back in December I went to the Grapefruit Gala at the French Culinary Institute and got to meet Jansen Chan who was the chef for the event. Immediately, I fell in love. His warm personality and his delicious food got me straight away. Ever since then, I’ve been meaning to go to the his midtown [...]

In order to have a better understanding of pastry, I think it’s important that I taste lots of different pastries all around town! It’s always nice to have a good excuse to eat desserts and as a part of school sometimes my homework is go to the French pastry shops. This week I went to [...]

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the New Taste of the Upper West Side – Divine Desserts event in NYC. The event was fantastic! It was set in a tent near the Museum of Natural History and had representation from many of the Upper West Side’s greatest restaurants.  The photo above was [...]

For our 4th and final day in Paris we decided to kick things off with a champagne cruise down the Seine. We tasted 3 different champagnes, Demilly de Baere, Monmarthe “the secret of the famille”, and Eric Phelizon (shown from left to right above). The Demilly de Baere was a Brut champagne, meaning no sugar [...]

Our our third day we visited Montmartre and walked by the famous Boulangerie there. After coming back to the center of town we decided to walk the Champs Elysees and wound up at a delicious chocolate shop called Le et Gourmet Chocolats on Avenue Franklin D Roosevelt. This shop had such wonderful looking chocolates. Everything [...]

On our second day in Paris we decided to take a trip to Versailles, but of course had to stop to get food for the one hour train ride and we decided to go to La Boulangerie de papa in the Latin quarter for some Beignets. The one I got was filled with raspberry jam, [...]

This past week, I had the joy and pleasure of being able to travel to Paris for 4 days! What ensued was a truly gastronomic experience and I can happily say that I achieved my goal of stopping for a pastry every couple of hours. Since we arrived late in the day, the first stop [...]

This week is restaurant week in New York. Every year I look forward to this 2 week period, although now it seems like it goes on for more like 2 months, as a chance to try out some of New York’s finest. Unfortunately, this year every restaurant I was excited for seemed to already be [...]

This weekend I had a chance to go the famous Cafe Sabarsky at the Neue Gallerie in New York. The cafe is known to be one of the best Austrian Cafes in the city and it didn’t disappoint! We got to enjoy 1 an Apfelstrudel, or Apple strudel and a Wiener Mélange (Espresso with steamed [...]

Almost a month ago, I had the pleasure of going to the Modern Restaurant’s Bar Room at the MoMA. The place had been recommended to my sister-in-law from a food critic and so we decided that we absolutely had to go. We had heard that the portions there were pretty small so we decided to [...]