Soho Reds

Are you putting a red bow on it?

Kate Spade thinks you should

Give colorfully. Watch the fun movie!

Sunday night a lot of people were out scooping up some color to give

Accross the street (Mercer street) the girl Santas at Vivianne Tam wished the lights were on.

Seen in Vivianne Tam's window

Balthazar Bakery was buzzing.

What to get?

Converse on Broadway were full of red Converse. What else?

Next door at Dean & Deluca I was hypnotized by a table full of French caramels

They had lots of shaped cakes like this drum...

And a Mr. Snowman cake:

Dark chocolate layered w/chocolate moose & caramel, covered in vanilla butter cream wrapped in white chocolate!

New York yellow cab ginger cookies at D&D - I prefer gingerMEN for authenticity

Merry Hols!

And Happy Holidays

Antique Garage looked cosy and nice last night but I had to run home to paint cats :)

CHEERS PBers!

Bisoux Market

You might think you're in Paris if you saw these croissants... You might think you were at Balthazar in Soho...You're not. You're at the new Bisoux Market in the Delta Terminal at LaGuardia Airtport.

Bisoux is loaded with French classic sweeties like Barnier lollies...

And typical Provencal calissons d'Aix...

Dragees anyone?

My favorite French sweet - sticks of guimauve/marshmallow.

Bisoux has savory French things to eat like salade Nicoise.

I shall be diving with the lobsters...

Into this tub at The Slipway in Thomaston, Maine...

I really ate steamed clams and mussels. I'm saving lobster for later..

BONJOUR BISOUX & MAINE!

BonBon Breakfast

I went to Soho (not to chocolate rehab...but I should have)
To check out the Valentines offerings...
Here a heart hat for your head!
Valentines chocolates suit me better...
Dean & Deluca has a plethora of heart cookies...
And heart chocolates...
And heart-shaped cakes up the whazoo...

More D&D cakes.

A few blocks away on Spring Street, red-doored Balthazar Bakery has lovely Valentine cakes.

Inside pink petit fours (I ate one).

And in the windows heart-shaped cookies...

Berry tarts...

And a red-ribboned chocolate cake!

Don't miss today's NYTimes article on why you should eat more milk chocolate. Plus tasting notes by Julia Moskin

Little bear has been found!
Found reposing on a rose petal, contemplating a Michel Cluizel chocolate heart.

Little bear has expensive tastes.

Hmmm...wonder who he has been hanging out with..

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