Category Dessert

The best Mango sorbet in NYC at Zengo

Last week a friend of mine asked me, “What do you think of Zengo for dinner”?  He had been there for lunch, but never for dinner.  I had been to Zengo for dinner almost 3 years ago and could not remember much of a positive experience from that visit.  I vaguely remembered that vegetarian options were limited. […]

Delicious gelatos from a gelato making class at Mia Chef Gelateria

Making a gelato is complicated, yes, very complicated!!  These small batch, artisanal desserts that originated in Italy have to be tough to make, right?  That is what I thought until I took the gelato making class with a couple of friends at Mia Chef Gelateria yesterday. My friends and I had talked about doing a […]

Fine Dining at Le Basilic in Cancun

This is another post in the Cancun series.  Le Basilic is a fine-dining Mediterranean restaurant in the Hotel Zone in Cancun.  If you read a few of my prior posts on Cancun, you would have read about my preference to eat local food where the locals eat, so why would we eat at a Mediterranean restaurant? […]