Last night I met up with Jeannette at Kasadela on 11th and Avenue C, which is basically Japanese small plates… or a fancy izakaya. My first experience with izakaya was when Ryan took us to Tokkuri-Tei in Honolulu earlier this year. I like it. It’s fun to order drinks and small plates and share.
Busy Bee Cake, Black Hound Bakery, East Village, Manhattan
After dinner we tried to go to Chikalicious, a dessert bar on 10th and 2nd, but it was closed up and only open on Wednesday - Friday Sunday. Instead we stopped by Black Hound Bakery on 11th and 2nd to share a little mini Busy Bee Cake, which consists of three layers of chocolate butter cake, two layers of almond butter cake, two layers of bittersweet chocolate mousse and on layer of marzipan… all covered in marzipan and bittersweet chocolate and decorated with marzipan and almond petal bees. It was so delicious, but so rich that we couldn’t finish it even though it was the tiny mini version.
Afterwards I walked Jeanette to Union Square, at about 14th and Park, where she caught the train home to Long Island City in Queens. Feeling like I’ve been eating far too much dessert without any exercise, I walked up to my hotel at 48th and Lexington Avenue. It was a long walk, but not hard. The hardest part was that I was carrying my laptop bag and it started to get feeling really heavy.
Grand Central Station, Midtown East, Manhattan
I haven’t seen friends much in the two weeks that I’ve been in New York on business so it was good to see Jeannette. Also, I love the people I work with, but it was nice to have one night away from the office.
7 responses so far ↓
1 cappy // Jun 13, 2007 at 12:02 pm
ChikaLicious is open Wed-Sun. according to their website. Must’ve read that incorrectly.
2 RachelleB // Jun 13, 2007 at 12:04 pm
we didn’t read the site before we went.
3 RachelleB // Jun 13, 2007 at 12:04 pm
oh, i see what you’re saying. yeh, wed - sun, not wed-fri.
4 tien // Jun 13, 2007 at 1:45 pm
i went to kasadela for my bday dinner. did you get the chicken wings?
5 RachelleB // Jun 13, 2007 at 1:51 pm
no chicken wings. i don’t really care for them. we had -
- black edamame, which the waitress made sure we knew wasn’t black in color but was more flavorfull than regular edamame
- ume chicken
- black cod marinated for 3 days in den miso
- broiled Japanese eggplant w/ den miso paste
- Rock Shrimp Tempura w/ Creamy Spice Sauce
6 Jen // Jun 13, 2007 at 6:49 pm
Hello, Rachelle,
I write a travel column for a web mag, and I found a great photo of yours on flickr that I just used to illustrate an article about Kauai golf. I want to thank you for having some of your photos in the public domain like that; you have a gift. I even like the photo here of the bee cake. (When I lived in NYC, by the way, my favorite dessert place was Cafe Lalo on the Upper West Side.)
You get a photo credit in the picture (click on it to see). I listed you as Rachelle Bowden; please email me if you’d like the credit name changed. You can see it here:
http://luxuryresorttravel.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_best_golf_vacations_on_kauai
I do apologize for intruding on your blog here - but this was the only way I could find to contact you, and I thought you’d like to know!
Jen
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