NYC Tastes

I seem to be running back and forth between Brooklyn and Queens lately and finding some great eats. Let's start at Los Paisitas out in Elmhurst where I ordered Calentado Con Huevos Y Arepa. Scrambled eggs with green onion, tomato and a side of rice and beans.  I loved the flavor of the rice and eggs together.  If I had been a little hungrier I would have added one of the fluffy pieces of fried dough from this tiny little Latin bakery.  Over in Fort Greene we stopped into Der Schwarze Kolner for a little snack. The pretzel came out nice and warm with some extra spicy mustard on the side. I absolutely loved the hefty beer mugs!  And now let's finish up with some dessert back in Queens... A new cupcake from my favorite place in Bayside, Head Over Heels.  This was the Balenciaga and it was amazing.  The top was reminiscent of a creme brulee that crackled a bit with a tres leche cake an...

I was working in Bayside the other day and walking around the neighborhood in search of lunch. Somehow I spotted this little bakery across the street. Cupcakes in Heels? It wasn’t a proper lunch but I was certainly checking it out. As I walked into the miniscule bakery I was delighted to see each of the cupcakes named after a fashion designer. There was Valentino- a lemon cupcake with lemon curd and vanilla buttercream, a Burberry- strawberry cupcake filled with fresh strawberries and vanilla whipped cream... and even a Passion Fruit Alexander McQueen! I was torn between all the flavors but finally settled on the Dolce- a caramel cupcake topped with caramel butter cream and a sprinkle of salt. Which they put in this cute little take out container. I’ll admit this looked a lot prettier when I bought it. Unfortunately I dropped it on my way back to work and it got a little banged up inside the box. Luckily this didn’t affect the flavor at all. The ...