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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Oh la la Tartes Shop, Berlin Germany - Brunch

Location: Mainzer Straße 18, 12053 Berlin, Germany

We walked by Oh la la Tartes Shop one day and saw they have a vegan brunch on Saturdays. I was really excited as when we asked about it they said there would be baked goods like croissants, some hot food items, crepes, etc. It sounded wonderful. We made a reservation and showed up....to a fairly disappointing brunch. I looked at their facebook page and the photos have lots of baked good and yummy looking things. We had the above - some crepes with jams to put in them - they were super sweet and tasty, but I couldn't eat a ton of them as they were so sweet. In the small round container was a mint cucumber cold soup which was alright. Above that was some zucchini pasta which was...not the best I have had. Some salad and a little dessert with raspberry and this delicious marshmallow creamy stuff on top.


Later they also added some tofu and spinach dish (at the top of the plate) which was not very flavorful. There was a chocolate mini cupcake that was super dry and not very good, some tofu next to that and pineapple, and some chocolate mousse which was amazing. They did have some rice cakes, but no other baked good like I had been hoping. Really I was really disappointed in the brunch - I left still hungry, but I couldn't eat any more crepes.

Overall - I really would like to go back and try the brunch again. I was expecting baked goods and yummy treats, but the brunch we had was....there wasn't much except sugar. I would also like to go back and try their vegan quiche someday.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Chez Harag Pastries, Washington DC

Location: 2312 4th St NE, Washington, DC 20002, USA
From Vegan Gastrobot
I read about a vegan French bakery in DC and I knew we had to stop by. They didn't have croissants, but they did have all kinds of cookies and treats that I have never had before. Chez Hareg Pastries was a small shop with a full case of vegan cookies. We tried a few different items - the Vegan Palmier, Raspberry Sprtiz Cookie, Pecan Snowball and a Napoleon.

From Vegan Gastrobot
The napoleon was light and flaky and not too sweet. Layers of puff pastry that was flaky like philo with a light lemon custard in between. This did not have strong lemon flavor which is good as I do not like lemon that much. Not too filling and not too sweet so not a very heavy dessert which was good since we had so much walking to do.

From Vegan Gastrobot
The Pecan Snowball is one of my favorite cookies and this one was buttery and delicious just like it should be. I had never had a spritz cookie before so we had to try one of them and it was really good. Very light and buttery, though I would have prefered it without the jam. The Palmier was my favorite - these were so light and flaky and lightly sweetend and just perfect. Like eating lightly sweetend airy crispy pasty. We took a dozen of these and the plain spritz cookies to go to share with my freinds we were staying with. My friend was hesitant - she said she really liked spritz cookies, but made with real butter. She tried these one and conceeded that they were just as good - surprisingly buttery for a vegan cookie.

Overall - definitely stop by here and pick up some Palmiers and Spritz cookies. They were so good. Now I wish I had some to snack on...