oh f*** if i could do two places in one day it would make planning these visits so much easier but i don’t wanna do that cause pastries go stale way too quickly

actually maybe i’ll just get lil from cabra this time since i tried most of their s*** last time

joes coffee lol
the morning bar was giving cliff bar which isnt necessarily a bad thing
ice cream sando from the good batch-- good ice cream sando but nothing memorable at all tbh. solid but not worth going out ur way for

namkeen - tikkaville sando. meat is halal, pakistani inspired. the tikka sauce is very lovely. different for sure from the rowdy rooster sando tho i do hear comparisons--rowdy rooster is much more spiced, herbier, chutney-er, and the onions bite. the namkeen tikkaville is a much creamier sauce. both are good but taste v different

went to the natasha pickowicz bake sale benefit

clockwise from top:

• jesse szewczyk (nyt baked goods recipe writer) - chocolate earl gray brownie cake (jody liked, i think its rly rly sweet but good w milk)
• woldy kusina (modern filipino cookbook author who also does some nyc popups)- bibingka (filipino mochi cake) w sugared basil leaf
• tandem bakery (portland baker) - chocolate fennel cookie
• banchan by sunny (lady who does a lot of banchan popups) - butter bean and spring veg hotteok
• tandem bakery - granola shortbread
• natasha pickowicz (baked goods cookbook author, james beard best pastry chef) - choco chip cookie
• grossy pelosi (tiktok food/recipe influencer) - also a granola shortbread
• caroline schiff (gage and tollner, james beard best pastry chef) - some sort of olive oil cake or yellow cake lol
  

i liked the bibingka and the hotteok the best bc theyre the most unique of the bunch imo--never had bibingka, never had basil in a sweet context, never had savory hotteok. i know both the hotteok and bibingka ppl do popups but they never had enough things i was intrigued by at their respective popups for me to go, but these 2 items hit
jody liked the choco fennel cookie and the brownie cake the best
tandem made a better granola shortbread for sure lol
i wanted to try grossys tho bc his food always looks so good on ig, but hes really not a baker so much as a savory recipe person so it makes sense. they made the same thing bc the prompt was to make stuff inspired by natasha's new cookbook, so ig that was one of her cookbook recipes

i thought the choco chip cookie was impressive in that it remained fairly soft and somewhat gooey in the middle even tho they were clearly cooled already.

i think the most popular items overall were the

• zoe kanan squiggle donut (my friend and i arent that into donuts so we skipped)
• the caroline schiff cake (good, moist, slightly lemon zesty and vanillay but idk theres a lot of similar qual cakes in the city tbh), had floral deco
• librae bakery cake (they also just sell it at the bakery so we didnt get) that had floral deco
• noreen wasti's cardamom/mango/pistach layer cake that had floral deco
• jesse's choco brownie cake that had floral deco

the trend is floral deco lol
ties into why from lucie is so popular rn

Hope she does another bake sale soon, theyre fairly infrequent but theyre always really crazy but pretty fun

the caroline schiff slice looks really nice. thoughts on that one?

the greens, rings, and ribs look so good

sour duck market in austin

good but not crazy
ive eaten a lot of similar cakes and u most likely have too

food52.com/recipes/26709-maialino-s-olive-oil-cake (i rly like this cake recipe but its heavy on the evoo, my personal fave olive oil cake tho, maialino is a legend in the city)
etc etc
just kinda lemon zesty, kinda vanilla-y

pineapple.cdn.prismic.io/pineapple/913f78a1-894e-410b-a239-db45041d3a05_CarolineSchiff_RecipeCard.pdf
i think this is most likely the exact one she made

this really just @boruto_dad 's thread and we just post in it

oh ok, interesting. thanks for the vid and recipe!

random, but i remember carla from bon appetit. didn't know she had her own channel. glad most from that crew are doing well now

:3c

ya theyre all doing their own thing

ive definitely seen a lot of sohla recipes and rick martinez recipes online, both are doing stuff w nytimes/food52/etc

carla lalli music, claire saffitz, andy baraghani all have cookbooks that are pretty big i think

brads still w bon app i think, same w molly i think???

and then alex delany is living this weird ny/menswear influencer life idk lol.... i have guy friends that follow him just for the fits which is v funny 2 me

yeah, sohla and claire have been killing it. not surprised tbh. they were kind of the stars.

totally forgot about alex lol. he wasn't a chef, iirc, so he was kind of limited by what he can do independently. could've gone to eater or something though

They actually were

Also @proper
Heard michaeli bakery has some of the best rugelach in town

Its by golden diner whose matcha coffee cake i stan
And kopitiam which has a great malaysian dessert selection (and savory food / malaysian coffee or tea)

Both golden diner and kopitiam are james beard nominees ✨

Those beans look rly inviting

What spot

Willie Jewells BBQ in Charleston SC

Apparently its a small bbq chain. Not bad at all.

@whoever was asking about vegan spots:
champs diner got taken over by a new vegan diner, co owned by the chef from champs
ro's diner!!!!

have not been to ro's but champs was great and the food looks very sim
instagram.com/rosdinerbk

@plants

went to la cabra today got cardamom bun, canele, croissant

then went to librae and got rose pistachio croissant, espresso chocolate croissant, spinach artichoke cheese danish, tahini choco chip cookie, tumeric brown butter white choco chip cookie, and some typa earl grey cookie

librae chocolate croissant so fire the cheese spinach was really good too

really excited for the cookies but later tonite or maybe even tom since cookies aren’t as delicate as croissants

prolly won’t have time to come back to cabra/librae again for this trip but will def do the b2b cabra/librae again next time i come out here

actually i might try go back to librae again seeing hella s*** on their ig that looks fire