![]() At least just to shop at Loehmann’s again. The Worst Thing About This Walk: That I was too full to try anything at Aroma Espresso Bar The Best Thing About This Walk: Loehmann’s! Instead, I will list some of the stuff on their menu that I will definitely order next time around:Īroma All Day Powerbreakfast 2 eggs-any style, mixed greens, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, tomatoes, carrots, feta cheese, olives, cream cheese, bread and butterīureka bulgarian pastry filled with choice of potato, spinach or feta cheese I would love to post pictures of their food (if I was a good enough blogger I probably would have stolen some shots of other people’s food), however I was too full to order anything at the time. I liked the fact that they give you a piece of chocolate with your coffee, very French. They also have some decent-looking pastries, and they’re coffee was also decent. You know how health magazines always say a nutritious meal has many colors in it? Well, I saw several different plates of multi-colored healthiness being served up here, and most of them actually looked appetizing. ![]() I’m not sure how real foodies would feel about this place, but as a vegetarian I was over-the-moon for their menu. At first I got confused by the ambiance, because it looked somewhat like a very busy cafeteria (including a very long line), but it was indeed a coffee place, and also much, much more. The point of going to this place was to get some good coffee, but it seemed to me like most of the people in there were getting food. Their red velvet cupcake was pretty decent, if you’re curious. I would recommend this bakery to anyone who is in the mood for cupcakes and is in the neighborhood. ![]() They weren’t the best cupcakes I’ve had by far, but the flavors were there and I didn’t feel like I was just eating spoonfuls of sugar, which I find to be a common experience having tried the many cupcake shops here in the city. I got the peanut butter and jelly, red velvet and strawberry shortcake cupcakes. It looked a bit sterile inside, and there weren’t a lot of people, but I was so excited to get cupcakes that we went ahead and got some anyways. I was looking for the Buttercup Bakeshop (which had great reviews) and I found that it had been replaced by the Red Cupcake Bakery. Peanut Butter and Jelly, Red Velvet and Strawberry Shortcake I find it has a distinct caramelized orange taste that I like more than the other French toasts I’ve sampled from his plate over the years. Now, he basically orders French toast for brunch wherever we go, so it’s not really a surprise that he likes it. Hubby had their orange-buttermilk French toast, which is his usual order. Orange Buttermilk French Toast Nice Matin Hubby stole it from me for breakfast the next day. They were all delicious, in fact I took the scone back home because I felt bad I couldn’t finish it. This time it contained a croissant, pain au chocolat and a lemon poppy seed scone. We always start a meal there with their bread basket, which is filled with a variety of pastries they have for the day. We hadn’t been there in quite some time, so we felt pretty good about going back. It has so-so reviews on Yelp, but we’ve never had a bad experience there, in fact every time we’ve gone we’ve always liked the food. Nice Matin is a nice French brunch place that we discovered a couple of years back. Unfortunately, the line looked like this: The original plan was to have brunch at “Good Enough to Eat”, which is one of the more famous brunch places in NYC. I was really disappointed that we couldn’t move here (I’d rather spend money on more walks), but I consoled myself with the fact that we could always come back just to hangout, which is exactly what we did for this walk. However, we realized the Upper West Side is one of the most expensive areas of Manhattan to live in, and there are actually more affordable apartments on the Upper East Side. The streets are wide and clean, the shops are nice, the coffee is GREAT (I’ve had two very good experiences at coffee places here). It’s just seems like a different city up there. We even went so far as to try and see if it’s possible for us to move to that neighborhood, since we saw many couples our age walking their dogs. I’m not going to write much about that walk, except to say that we loved the neighborhood, and we decided to go back soon. One of those undocumented walks was a trip to the Museum of Natural History with hubby, which quickly bored us and resulted in an Upper West Side/Central Park walk instead. I’d actually started doing “walks” even before I conceptualized this blog, in an effort to make my travel-less life less boring.
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