Getting back to the whole ‘cafe’ thing, and more particularly the Konditorei or confectionery aspect of it, here’s Oberlaa. We saw this place on our first night, opposite the Christmas tree seller in Neuer Markt (and I love creatively misinterpreting German, so this makes me wonder where der Older Markt is). Then it turned out […]
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La Balance, Ginza (ラ・バランス銀座)
Despite their booming popularity in Japan, I still think macarons are a great thing. The king of pastry, if you will. There aren’t a lot of places that make good ones – you often see them wrapped individually in plastic, and that just can’t be a positive sign. Still, I’m always willing to try a […]
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Kit Kat, Tokyo
Look, when I’m stressed, I eat more and worse. What about you? Another bad thing is that the powerful crush of salty ramen tends to make me crave sweet things even more than usual. Couple that with a display of unique Kit Kat flavors in the basement while I was walking back from Shichisai, and […]
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Morihachi, Kanda (森八 室町店)
It’s always tempting to think you’ve tried something great and unique; I was pretty happy that I finally went in to Morihachi, but it was pretty apparent that it wasn’t a family-run operation. Not that this is a terrible thing. There’s little difference between this place and a family shop – the old woman at […]
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Kasagiya, Kyoto (かさぎ屋)
If you were only going to eat old-fashioned Japanese-style tea and sweets once, this would be the place. It’s not because there’s anything marvelous about the food or drink. It’s because there are so few places where you can duck off an insanely picturesque street (Ninenzaka, near Kiyomizu Temple) and immediately enter another, quieter world. […]
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Kamo Mitarashi Chaya, Kyoto (加茂みたらし茶屋（亀屋粟義))
Love was in the air as we walked down to Shimogamo shrine. Seriously, this is a sweet picture, isn’t it? And despite, or perhaps because of, a volumific but uninspiring luncheon, we were more than willing to eat more. Especially given our love of sweets, and generic desire to eat mitarashi dango while in Kyoto. […]
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Sarasa Pausa, Kyoto (サラサ麩屋町PAUSA)
We’ll return to this theme repeatedly over the next couple reviews, but the neighborhood blocked out by the Kamo River and Karasuma Street on the east and west, then Oike Street and Shijo Street on the north and south, is probably the coolest in the world. It has all the old-fashioned, mildly touristy charms of […]
City Bakery, New York
Well-informed readers will no doubt understand the amusement value of this truly outrageous picture (for the rest of you the link will help a bit). Even funnier considering who I was talking to about it most recently, the windows above show a ballet studio. The only dancing at City Bakery is the ballet of butter […]
Chikalicious Dessert Bar, New York
I left Peels today with a mission, or more specifically two recommended dessert-focused shops to try. Since I had already skipped work to try to meet Shuna, I figured what the hey and started walking to her two recs. The first was farther over in the East Village – home of various movie/TV shoots like this one, […]
Peels, New York
I went to New York on this trip with two goals (outside the whole ‘complete a major presentation for work’ thing, which is peripheral to eating, wouldn’t you agree?): the first was to visit the Dream House. I failed. The second was to eat desserts sprung from the mind of Shuna Lydon. I succeeded, and […]