Honeydeux in New Orleans, LA

April 16, 2012 By 2 Comments
shaved ice

Honeydeux
1912 Magazine St.
New Orleans, LA

new frozen dessert place

Honeydeux has opened up nearby where the former Jackson restaurant was (some of you may remember some bad blood between me and the chef at Jackson and so I had avoided this area of Magazine st for some time). But when I saw shaved ice signs, I had to check it out. I got a chance to speak with the owner who actually brought the Asian shaved ice idea from Star Ice in Houston, TX to New Orleans. I’ve noticed there’s  been a sudden tide of frozen dessert places in New Orleans (Red Mango, Pinkberry, etc), but this is unique and there are tons of Asians in New Orleans looking for some Boba tea and shaved ice.

ambiance

The ambiance is set up like a modern diner, with stools set around a counter.

shaved ice

the asian version of shaved ice comes with yummy condensed milk which gives extra flavoring to the fresh fruits and shaved ice. Star Ice and Honeydeux both like to top their with an additional scoop of ice cream. Love the condensed milk! The mango and strawberries were super fresh. I hope to come back and try some other fruit combinations.

 

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Pinkberry in Boston, MA

March 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
joe's

Pinkberry
288 Newbury St.
New Orleans, LA

Newbury st

I love walking down Newbury St. in Boston. It’s fun to see how many stores they try to cram into one block (there’s a downstairs, a upstairs and a regular entrance all in the same area………there really is no organization to the numbers of the addresses on the blocks (like  in Philadelphia, one block is one set of hundreds).

something new

I figured since I wasn’t payin for my dessert, I would go all out. I got to try the new pumpkin flavor the guy behind the counter suggested some cinnamon on top which totally made it amazing. So I got the pumpkin w cinnamon, some peanut butter crunch (pulling out all the stops!), mochi and heath bar bits.

joe's

Joe got something like my usual creation from Pinkberry. The regular yogurt and all fruits (altho he did personalize it with the chocolate chips). The service here was very friendly and awesome at letting us sample the various yogurt flavors.

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Red Mango in Baton Rouge, LA

February 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
my creation

Red Mango
10001 Perkins Rowe
Baton Rouge, LA 70810

the front

I love Red Mango so much that even though the one in Harahan closed, I drove from New Orleans to Baton Rouge to check out this one.

self-serve yogurt

the girl behind the counter hands out mini cups so that you can go from station to station sampling various flavors. My new favorite is white peach.

self serve toppings

Unlike the stingy servers at Pinkberry, you can pour on your own toppings. of course they charge you buy the weight, but at least you can put on as many toppings as you want.

blueberries

look at how fresh the fruit selection is!

my creation

my creation has mochi, mangoes, pineapple, strawberries, blueberries and banana on white peach frozen yogurt.

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Yogurtland in New Orleans, LA

January 29, 2012 By 3 Comments
my creation

Yogurtland
4903 Prytania St.
New Orleans, LA

the front

Well look who’s finally joined the New Orleans frozen yogurt scene! Welcome, Yogurtland! I’ve been expecting you!!

ambiance

This is like the more affordable version of frozen yogurt done right! When we walked in, we were handed several sample cups (most stores are super strict on limiting the number of samples you get). Joe and I had enough to sample at least one of each flavor (there are like 10? 12?)

lots of candy options

Don’t forget, you can put as much frozen yogurt and toppings as you want, but they will charge you by the price. Now I am pretty used to my order and expect it to come out to about $10 at Red Mango (at Pinkberry, they control how much frozen yogurt you get and how much of each topping so they can’t really be compared to these self-serve places) so imagine my shock when I went to ring up my order and it was only $4!!! Hello, Yogurtland! Goodbye, Red Mango (that is all the way in Baton Rouge).

lots of fresh fruit options as well

The service was friendly, the place was uber clean (just opened up 3 weeks ago) and the toppings looked amazing. On top of that, the flavors were delicious. Not too much tart.

Joe's creation

Joe went for the chocolate milk shake flavor frozen yogurt with mochi, cookie dough, chocolate chip and honey.

my creation

I went for the red velvet cake batter (that’s right!!) with mochi, twix (uh huh!), and toffee bits. Heaven! I’ll definitely be back.

 

 

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Jungle Cafe in Houston, TX

December 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
black forest cake

Jungle Cafe
9889 Bellaire Blvd
Houston, TX

the front

we came here for some desserts. they are all very prettily decorated and at extremely high prices! overall, i thought the quality was good but not great especially in the flavor category.

pistachio cake

this cake had a velvety pistachio flavor to it. it was very rich.

black forest cake

i was excited for this cake because it was supposed to be a chocolate cake that tasted more like a brownie. the star of this dish was the chocolate macaroon. it was light and airy and flavorful.

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Gambino Bakery in Metairie, LA

December 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
rusty sign

Gambino Bakery
4821 Veterans Memorial Blvd
Metairie, LA

rusty sign

i wasn’t too happy with this place. When I walked in with my camera, they said no pictures allowed when I know for a fact other people have taken pictures in here of their cake displays. Oh well.

red velvet petit four

I had a whirl of petit fours. I couldn’t make up my mind and so I love these little tiny cake slivers. It’s just enough to appreciate the taste but not enough to drive you to the gym.  The cakes here are moist and flavorful. My favorite had to be the butterscotch petite four.

butterscotch petit four

I asked the woman working there what is the most popular cake flavor and she said the almond cake. I tried it and was more impressed by the red velvet and the butterscotch.

almond

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Southern Candy Makers in New Orleans

October 20, 2011 By 1 Comment

Southern Candy Makers
334 Decatur Street
New Orleans

This famous candy store is located in the heart of the French Quarter. Walk inside and sample pralines!
you can go up and down the counter, selecting treats for your box and then they plastic wrap the box for you to keep it fresh! they have a back wall with shelves of New Orleans gifts making this the perfect place to send gifts for people that have never been to New Orleans. The pralines are good too.

pecan praline

chocolate praline

turtle praline

The pralines are sugar-y goodness! The service here was kinda snooty which was surprising for a candy store.  Since I wasn’t offered any samples, I chose 4 different pralines that I thought sounded good. They were alright but I thought over-rated for the best pralines in New Orleans.

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Pandora Snowball in New Orleans, LA

August 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Pandora Snowball
901 N Carrollton Ave
New Orleans, LA 70119

Where do the local residents go when the humid weather goes into the triple digits? They come get these frozen slushees (shredded ice with flavored syrup)!!! The cups are very generous and they’re about $2-$3.

You order at one window and pick up around the corner. The line moves very quickly. Apparently the nectar flavor is a very solid choice and so my group each got half nectar and half something else. The nectar was soooooooo refreshing!  Perfect for a hot and sunny day!

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Blue Dot Donut in New Orleans

June 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Blue Dot Donut
4301 Canal St.
New Orleans, LA

blue dot donut

I heard about this place through the grapevine so I wanted to check it out. There isn’t much of a donut market in New Orleans (they don’t even have a Dunkin Donuts!) Unfortunately, the service wasn’t great. I had read some reviews about how the service was iffy and they were definitely not the nicest ppl I’ve ever dealt with. I especially didn’t appreciate when she smushed my donuts into the tissue wrap (that was a lot of fun to try to make the donuts look whole).

maple bacon donut

This was the most hyped donut, the maple bacon donut. I liked it, just a little heavy for breakfast but very tasty! The bacon wasn’t that salty and the maple syrup flavored frosting was sweet.

apple crisp

The apple crisp was really bland. Probably would’ve been great with coffee. But the donut didn’t have great texture or flavor.

Peanut Butter and Jelly donut

This specialty donut sounded so interesting, I had to try it! I loved the peanut butter frosting and the jelly filling. Definitely took me back to the good ol days of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on white bread!

Blueberry donut

strangely enough, this was my favorite donut of them all. The lil blueberry donut that could! I didn’t expect much from this one, but the flavor was bursting with blueberries and the light glaze gave it a crisp texture.

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