All cupcakes are not crated equal. Without question, there is at least one cupcake that stands out from the legions of the overly frosted and sweet nostalgia minded bakes. The dozen plus varieties of cupcakes (regular and premium) from CHICKALICIOUS DESSERT CLUB are lessons of exaction in baking perfection. With moist and flavorful cake topped with just the right amount of frosting (we estimate a 5 to 1 ratio), this is the don’t-overwhelm-but-satisfy-me sweet treat. [...]
Frosting reaches new heights with overly broad swirls at the Cupcake STOP. Sorry guys but these refrigerated cakes are worrisome reminders of how far we’ve gone with the over abundance of nostalgia of cupcake bakes. Nothing you’d want to melt in your mouth here – dry cake and way too much frosting. And, about that frosting, maybe you were inspired in that truck – these visuals are more reminiscent of a curbside find rather [...]
Its parent and provider of all the goods for sale is no other than CITY BAKERY, famed purveyor of hot cocoa, rustic bakes and salad bar eats.
No surprise here – City Bakery is not clean about being green. Just feet away from the salad bars are malodorous and unhygienic latrines better suited to a down-and-out gas station rather than a bustling New York Eatery. There’s the same slicked over surface [...]
Daily Candy San Francisco reports that BENU, Corey Lee’s new venture in SOMA is serving up shark fin soup. Mr. Lee’s culinary polish as an alum of Napa Valley’s French Laundry only heightens our eco-dismay with this cruelly sourced dish. A sumptuous meal, maybe. But, In the most conscious of American food cities this is a no-go. Shame on you at BENU. 22 Hawthorne Street, between Howard and Folsom Streets. Tel. 415-685-4860. www.benusf.com.
Sam Sifton of the New York Times has got his ABCs right. He may have hammered the Hamptons angle hard but he was on target – the crowd at ABC KITCHEN was as much the materialistically clad Hamptons gathering as the East End’s Nick & Toni’s draws on a weekend summer night. Don’t let that stop you though – the food is too darn good and the restaurant, a white ton sur ton industrial-meets-rural design [...]
The Mission lost CONDUIT (New American food overcome by hyper-industrial designed space) and got ANOTHER MONKEY (Thai food overcome by hyper-industrial designed space). 280 Valencia Street.
MR. & MRS. MISCELLANEOUS opens in Dog Patch. Daily Candy reports on this new artisanal ice cream shop where the focus is on novelty flavors NOT organic ingredients. Why bother? Better to have an organic scoop than a chocolate encrusted pretzel peanut cone.
LA FACACCIA gone? Longstanding Village Italian mainstay has posted the worrisome “temporary closure notice”. Fingers crossed this charmed West 4th Street corner does not give way to another Marc Jacobs…..
