I love my pastries and will travel far and wide where ever I am to nibble on something really good (well, this applies to all food – but particularly for pastries). So it’s a shame that while I had been hearing about The Flaky Tart on Mount Pleasant for a while, I’ve just never gotten [...]
Picking-up some sweets for a celebration is usually pretty straight forward. This time though, we had an extra challenge: accommodating a gluten allergy. While I must admit my knowledge of where to procure gluten-free products isn’t vast, having frequented Queen East lately brought one place to the top of the list: LPK’s Culinary Groove. While [...]
We started the morning by heading out of town and going into Ballard. Our goal was to check if Café Besalu’s croissants were as good as Tartine’s in San Francisco as someone had assured me. Given that I ate my #1 croissant at Tartine, both my sister and I were eager to validate this claim. [...]
