Photo of Perverted Ice Cream's "Brand Spanking"

Perverted Ice Cream – Victoria, BC

This is Part 7 of our Victoria Food Adventures!  Check out the rest here! Update:  This location has permanently closed. So I guess I took too long to write this post (a year actually!) as this location of Perverted Ice Cream (website) in Victoria has permanently closed.  However their Vancouver downtown location is still open and […]

Thierry Chocolates Vancouver - Pistachio Opera Cake

Thierry Chocolates Vancouver

This year, instead of getting one big birthday cake, I asked to go to Thierry Chocolates instead to get a couple treats.  Thierry had always been on my list and since we’re gonna be in the area anyways after dinner at Verre, why not?! Thierry is quite roomy with seats instead and a sort of heated patio […]

Milk Bar - Cereal Milk & Chocolate Covered Pretzel Twist Soft Serve

Milk Bar – New York

This is Part 5 of our New York Food Adventures!  Check out the rest! Going along with the hype that is the Momofuku empire, our next stop after pork ramen was of course Milk Bar, which was close by.  We’re in New York, we HAD to see what the hype’s about.  Damn you (social) media! We had already […]

The Donut Pub New York - wall to wall donuts!

The Donut Pub – Chelsea, New York

This is Part 3 of our New York Food Adventures!  Check out the rest! On day 2 of our New York trip, we were meeting with some friends to walk over the Brooklyn Bridge so we thought we would grab something on the way for the walk.  We had originally wanted to get bagels but […]

Ululani's Shave Ice - Melona, Vanilla, Pina Colada with mochi

Ululani’s Hawaiian Shave Ice – Maui, HI

This is Part 10 of our Maui Food Adventures!  Check out the rest! Having Hawaiian shave ice was definitely one of the highlights of our trip.  Aside from Local Boys, we also gave Ululani’s Hawaiian Shave Ice a try.  Which one fared better?  Read on to find out! Ululani’s is probably one of the more […]

Chocolate Tofino – Tofino, BC

This is Part 2 of our Vancouver Island Food Adventures!  Check out the rest! Part 1: Wildside Grill – Tofino, BC Part 3: Ravenlady Oyster Forte – Ucluelet, BC Part 4: Wolf in the Fog – Tofino, BC Part 5: Jigger’s Fish & Chips – Ucluelet, BC   On the same visit to Wildside Grill while […]

Lucky's Doughnuts

Lucky’s Doughnuts

After many, many tastings, we’ve finally decided that between the two great doughnut makers in Vancouver, we Vancouver, we ♥ Lucky’s Doughnuts > Cartems Donuterie.  What finally sealed the deal was the doughnuts we had on our most recent visit to Lucky’s. I took the reins and picked out 3 doughnuts- from the bottom: Mango Passion Bismarck($3.50), Pistachio Glazed […]

Local Boys Shave Ice - Kihei, Maui

Local Boys Shave Ice – Kihei, Maui

This is Part 3 of our Maui Food Adventures!  Check out the rest! Part 1: Our Poke Adventures in Maui Part 2: Horhitos Mobile Taqueria – Kihei, Maui Part 4: Haleakala Summit & Charley’s Restaurant & Saloon – Paia, Hawaii Part 5: Kinaole Grill Food Truck – Kihei, Maui Part 6: Jawz Fish Tacos Truck – Kihei, Maui […]

L’Éclair de Génie Vancouver Opening

Vancouver now has its very own L’Éclair de Génie boutique and I couldn’t be happier!!  I first tried eclairs from L’Éclair de Génie on a family trip to Paris and fell in love.  They are presented artistically and each and everyone of them were so beautiful that it was actually hard for us to choose just […]

Cake’Ya

I forgot where I read about Cake’Ya.  It’s a tiny little operation located in Port Moody that makes a small selection of Japanese (Okinawan) goodies.  Small selection but each type of goody comes in an assortment of flavors. Easter Sunday we decided to have a relaxing day and head to Rocky Point Park.  On the […]