Brunch at The Corner Restaurant

Address: 105 River St, Milford, CT 06460
Website: http://thecornerbrunch.com

I absolutely love all my brunch pig out with KC. I think maybe because we both love eggs & breakfast sweet items plus we are both really lay back. We always end up just relax at my apartment later or shopping at a mall somewhere. We decided to try this new spot that I found on Yelp. It's not too far away from New Haven if you have a car.

Dinner at Union League Cafe -- 2012 NH Spring RW

Address: 1032 Chapel St # A  New Haven, CT 06510
Website: http://unionleaguecafe.com

Here come my last stop for 2012 NH spring RW. I was here with Angela, Yen and Ted. This is probably the only French Restaurant here at New Haven (while we have about 1000 Italian restaurants), and it happened to be a very good one. Of course, the price is also very French like my beloved LV...so that's why RW is a good chance to come back again.

Dinner at Ibiza -- 2012 (&2010) NH Spring RW

 

Address: 39 High Street New Haven CT::
Website: http://www.ibizarestaurantnewhaven.com

This is my second stop for this year's spring restaurant week. 

Lunch at Consiglios -- 2012 NH Spring RW

Address: 165 Wooster Street  New Haven, CT 06511
Website: http://www.consiglios.com

I am always excited about restaurant week (RW), doesn't matter what time of the year and what city I'm at. Although this year's RW price is more expensive, $18 for lunch & $32 for dinner, I still think it's a pretty good opportunity to try new places in town and catch up with friends. Sahr and I planned this meal about 2 weeks ago and both of us were starving on our way there (Oh well...maybe just me...) I have to apologize to  her a little bit here since I couldn't really focuse on talking to her on the Yale shuttle...I think my blood sugar level was too low....too hungry to do anything at all...sorry girl....I was not being a nice friend then.

Lucibello's --My favorite Italian Pastry Shop at New Haven

Address:935 Grand Ave., New Haven, CT 06511
Website: http://www.lucibellospastry.com

I tried to go to the Farmer's market here at New Haven on Saturday with my two heavy glass milk bottles that I still have from last year to return to the awesome diary vendor there, BUT.....there was no one there. Well...I guess this year's farmer's market hasn't started yet. (Hum...I thought it usually starts in April. Oh well.)

2012 March Limited -- Cherry Blossom Macaron and Tsumori Chisato Gift Box from Ladurée (plus a little bit of Panya in the end)

Please see the store information and my very first Ladurée visit here. If I didn't write it down, I don't think I'll remember what I've tried. This post should really be written sometime in March, and I am already late. But well, it's just April now. After my first visit to Ladurée , I kept going back since I really love those little colorful babies. What makes me want to write about it was the special gift box for 2012 March amd the featured flavor, the 2012 special flavor, INCROYABLE AMANDE (almond), and the 2012 March special flavor, Cherry Blossom. The special box was designed by the Japanese artist, Tsumori Chisato. It was too cute to not make one of them mine!

Bella's Cafe -- revisit for a Sweet Brunch

For the restaurant information, please see my previous visit here!

I wrote my 1st post almost a year ago and I came back today with KC to check out their sweet brunch items. It was the Easter weekend and in order to avoid waiting in line for too long, KC and I decided to go around 10:00AM!!! (well....I know that's not really "early"...)

Rocq Macaron

Website: http://macarons.rocqgroup.com/

This week was a little bit depressing for me. It might be the combination of a lot of things, such as some students gave me terrible attitude in the session, computer issues that resulted in not able to run some calculations and I am going to have a meeting tomorrow. I NEVER enjoy the meetings for many reasons...oh well...I shouldn't be complaining so much if I am doing something I love doing, isn't it? I know I know. Oh well...a girl is still need to pay the bills (tears) anyway, something worth celebrating was that our project got the first publication in PNAS. And plus I just got back my tax return, I went ahead and order those babies online. (since New Haven doesn't have any good French macaron places)

Brunch at Penelope

Address: 159 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Website: penelopenyc.com

YEAH!!! It's almost April!!! Which means that Spring is here and another step closer to my summer internship!!! I am so excited to do something different than MD simulation or FEP calculation or anything what I am currently doing in lab. Also, I am uber excited to EAT EAT EAT in Asia!!! Taiwan, Shanghai, and Japan, here I come. BUT, before then, I still have another ~2 months to go. Oh well... In the mean time, I guess I'll just to go NYC to satisfy my craving for yummy food for now.

ChikaLicious Dessert Bar 極品起司蛋糕

Address: 203 East 10th Street, New York, NY 10003-7636
Website: http://www.chikalicious.com/

Featured On: The Best Thing I Ever Ate - "Better Than Mine"

If you are interested in dessert salon (dessert bar), this is a place you have to try in NYC. After having some crazy awesome experience at Toshi Yoroizuka's dessert salon in Japan, I found myself loving this kind of dining experience. At that time, Chef. Yoroizuka was there making my desserts and  they tasted delicious. (yes, desserts! I went back twice in 5 days and tried total 4 desserts!!!...well, I did have a friend there to share the sweets with.). I think the fact that you can see the chef making the dessert actually made the sweet tastes better.

[紐約拉麵] Ippudo -- Japanese Ramen Noodle

Address: 65 4th Ave, New York, NY
Website: http://ippudony.com

This is one of the most popular Japanese Ramen places in NYC. You probably will have to wait whenever you come for a bit. RCSIII and I came here together a week before he left for Taiwan, and he loved it.

Luke's Lobster -- NYC upper east side location 肥美龍蝦捲

Address:242 E. 81st Street, NYC
Website: http://www.lukeslobster.com/ues/

Hum...What's going on with my nicolicious life recently?

北港台菜館 -- North Port Restaurant in Flushing, NY

Address: 59-14a Main St. Flushing, NY 11355
Phone:718-886-8788
They do not have a webpage.

EVERYTHING was so DELICIOUS!!!!!
The chef/owner came out from the kitchen and chatted with us. He was very friendly and super nice. Plus, he gave us this Taiwanese stil fry cabbage in the house!!!

My Mille Crêpes -- Call me lady N!!!

By far the most tedious sweet I have ever made. But totally worth it!

The original recipe is from "New York Times".

Here is what I did exactly:

French Macaron & Cupcakes at The Sweet Lobby

Address: 404 8th Street SE, Washington DC 20003
Website:http://sweetlobby.com/

I was here for both cupcakes and French macarons.