NYC Tastes

After the HUGE lunch at Spice, desserts at Cha-an and breakfast of Defonte's we were finally ready to head over to Brooklyn to get ready for the wedding. My plan was to grab a drink at the River Cafe and take in some wonderful city landscape and then head to the ceremony at ReBar. But then wait...one of my favorite Chocolate makers was right there!! So we did a quick reroute to Jacques Torres and ordered up some more desserts including their amazing Chocolate Kiss Cookie. This chocolate chip cookie is so amazing because every single bite has chocolate. It's actually made with flat chocolate discs so that no matter what bite of cookie you get the ratio of dough to chocolate is perfect.  It has a nice buttery dough and the chocolate is fantastic making this a contender for best chocolate chip cookie in the city.  We got three of these enormous cookies...yeah that's right three!  We also tried out one of their chocolate cupcakes. This was good but a little too rich f...

I've always been a person who NEEDS to have at least one piece of chocolate or sweet every day.  I just don't feel right until I do.   But lately I've been needing more.   Not more chocolate but more dessert...Cupcakes, puddings, ice creams...my daily mini Toblerone and my scoop of Nutella just haven't been doing the job lately. So the other day after lunch, I was heading to the nearby bodega for my sugar fix.  You know, a Rocher or some other single serving piece of chocolate they usually keep on the counter. Something that makes me feel less guilty than buying a whole candy bar!  But once I got inside, one look at the sad display of sweets I knew I needed something more   So I decided to take a little walk and trekked all the way down to one of the best chocolatiers in the city..Jacques Torres. Walking into his store is what I imagine it smelled like when Charlie first walked into Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.  Except no Oompa Loompa's. ...