Posts tagged ‘ice-cream’

June 3, 2013

New York City, Day 3: Rice & Miso Everyday, Van Leeuwen Ice-Cream

by Patricia

SNACKS.

I love the Brooklyn Flea. This year we snacked on a Japanese basil onigiri from Rice + Miso and drank a cucumber and mint lemonade from Dosa Royale. Afterwards we visited Prospect Park, where Leo bought jam at the local greenmarket, followed by ice-cream at Van Leeuwen in Greenpoint. Not a bad way to spend the day in Brooklyn.

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Rice + Miso Everyday
Website | Twitter

Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice-Cream
Website | 632 Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn

 

August 28, 2012

There’s always room for ice cream

by Patricia

I spent the summer eating a lot of ice-cream (Leo can attest to that), but no milkshakes. This was quickly remedied with an after work snack at The Big Chill on Monday. We don’t think it’s the best ice-cream place in Toronto, but it’s close to where I work. (The sweltering heat did not motivate.) There’s plenty of flavours to choose from, but most of them are just okay. (Do not go for the pistachio kulfi, just don’t.) We tried the brownie toffee crunch and coconut milk ice-creams for our shake. It would have been considerably better with a shot or two of bourbon…

As it’s the last week of August, I have great plans to go through my summer to-do list. We’ll see. I might just end up painting my nails a bright colour or going to the library to pay my fine pick up another magazine book to read. Here’s to the beginning of the end of summer!



The Big Chill
367 Manning Avenue | Website | Yelp

October 1, 2011

Who is ready for tonight?

by Patricia

I’m definitely not. I haven’t even looked a the guidebook at all.

July 30, 2011

ice-cream social with the little monster

by Patricia

Laura Secord’s dark chocolate…mmmmm.

April 4, 2011

Hey Lucy on a Sunday

by Patricia

Sunday was a busy day! The day was spent making bread, about which 80% was just waiting for the dough to rise, and then ran downtown for a short meet up with a friend who came back from Nigeria. I wanted to take her to OB Canteen, but it was surprisingly busy on a Sunday night. We just crossed to street and ate at Hey Lucy Cafe instead.

We got the sweet potato french fries, chicken calzone (?) and the wood fired margherita pizza. I didn’t taste the calzone, but the pizza was marginally better than the frozen thin crust pizzas they sell at grocery stores. (With the exception of fresh basil!) That’s not to say it was bad, but it wasn’t exactly exceptional.  For dessert, we ordered the warm chocolate cookie sundae with vanilla bean ice-cream. I was hoping it would come resembling a sundae, but was disappointed to see they just laid the barely heated cookie and the ice-cream next to each other. How is that even remotely resembling a sundae?

Somehow – of course – the weather managed to stay nice throughout our entire dinner right until when we had to pay our bill and make a 15 minute trek to the station.  It started pouring a combination of rain and snow. We couldn’t see anything and kept walking into puddles….but we made it, we survived. Can’t wait for summer so I can start complaining about being too hot.

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