If you follow the yogurt news, you probably already know about the whole Red Mango vs. Pinkberry feud where Pinkberry is accused of totally copying the whole Red Mango concept from its kawaii decor to its Cap’n Crunch toppings. Honestly I really didn’t care. I don’t even like Pinkberry, or yogurt shops for that matter….
Category Archives: Sweets
Table 8: Ted Raimi and Meh
Last night I met up with my blogger biatches, Nancy and Erin, again. This time at hip restaurant Table 8 on Melrose. I think it’s going to be our new thing: meeting up for drinks and drinks at various cool places around L.A. so we can offer our own take on it on our respective…
Face-Stuffing at the Dessert Decadence Tasting
Red velvet cupcakes, banana-pistachio cannolis, tiramisu gelato, caramel pecan crunch cheesecake. That was just a small sampling of the sweets available for face-stuffing at the Dessert Decadence dessert and wine tasting at Loews Santa Monica yesterday. Sponsored by CozmoCard, the same folks who brought you the swanky fun Casino Night at Barker Hangar last summer,…
Whist's Guinness Cake: Still Waiting for the Bomb To Drop
Guinness Cake served with Bailey’s Irish ice cream, whiskey sauce and caramelized sugar. Are you kidding me? Brooke Mosley, the newish pastry chef at Whist in the Viceroy Hotel and former pastry assistant at Grace, created it and I of course had to check it out since it’s got all my favorite ingredients. So I…
Nikki's Local 72: To Happy Hour or Not Happy Hour?
I’m torn because I think I just had the worst happy experience ever. But I can’t chalk it up to a place I’ll never go to again because of its AMAZING dessert, pretty tasty appetizers and unusual events. I dropped by Nikki’s in Venice for its happy hour: 1/2 off appetizers and two-for-one well and…
Cotton Candy: Carny Treat Turn Upscale Dessert
Flickr Shot by Bunny Steph Simon L.A.‘s infamous junk food platter was the first time I saw cotton candy on a dessert menu, and now this carnival confection is on just about every dessert menu from Pico Union to Santa Monica. Why? Is it because it’s neat how it melts on your tongue? Because you…
Frittelli's Doughnuts & Coffee: Doughnuts, Not Donuts
What’s a good doughnut supposed to taste like? I thought that Frittelli’s Doughnuts & Coffee in Beverly Hills — self-proclaimed “Best Doughnuts in L.A.” — would be able to tell me but I was disappointingly wrong. Ever since I first heard about their designer doughnuts, way back when I had gone on a brief hiatus…
Milk: Ziggy Piggy Ziggy Piggy Ziggy Piggy
After Bodega De Cordova, I dropped by Milk on Beverly Boulevard, known for its ice cream, ice cream bars, ice cream bonbons and ice cream sandwiches. I didn’t realize how wonderful a place this really was until I was standing in front of the freezer case licking the glass that was separating me from the…
Santa Monica's Yummy Cupcakes: Death by Frosting
Although I haven’t quite recovered from that Cupcake Challenge earlier this month (and you’re probably sick of hearing me blab about cupcakes), I had to check out the new Santa Monica location of Yummy Cupcakes. Since the original store is all the way in Burbank, I had resigned myself to pining for the Elvis cupcakes…
Cupcake Final Results: And the Winner Is…
Flickr Shot by dotsara Finally! The end. When I first thought up this contest, it sounded like a fun thing to do. I created special evaluation sheets for each store and each cupcake, rating frosting flavor, cupcake attractiveness, cake flavor and moistness, price and size, and even customer service and display at the store. I…
