San Diego: Chocolat

Location:

509 5th Ave
San Diego, CA 92101

To me, there's nothing better than a warm croissant and coffee or tea with breakfast.

Nothing.

Except, maybe with bacon.

Chocolat in the Gaslamp District of San Diego, appears to be a gelato/dessert bar, but they have warm croissants and pastries as well, served right to your table if you wish to sit down to eat for breakfast.

Which I did, savouring the moment (like this stylish patron was).

Their gelato spread looked divine, and is definitely worthy of a second visit!

Greece: Santorini, Sugar

Location:

Zoto's

It was the same place where we got the gelato. This time around it was for the magnificent and ENORMOUS sugared puff pastry.

YUM!

Greece: Santorini, Zoto's

We visited Zoto's Family Pastry TWICE in three days, first, for this.

NEW: Soma Downtown

Toronto Life just reported that a new location of SOMA (the chocolate shop in the Distillery District)

TRAVEL: Paris, France: Amorino

Location:

16 Rue Huchette
75005 Paris, France

As we were walking around the Latin Quarter, we noticed many touristy restaurants, none of which looked appealing.

THEN, we saw Amorino!
The famous gelato joint which was one of the must-dos on my list!

The line-up was huge, but the wait wasn't long until we had our very own giant cone with as many flavours as we wanted (that's right, as.many.flavours.as.you.want) arranged beautifully into a flower.

Ah.maz.ing.

Hollywood Gelato

You scream, I scream, we all scream for gelato!?

Hooray for gelato!

I've never been one to jump at the chance for ice-cream. Sure, I'll admit I've stood in line with everyone else half my height at the ice-cream truck, shelling out $2 for my scoop of vanilla dipped in chocolate or whatever that stuff is. And I do like the occasional McDonald's sundae! And sure, Cold-Stone in San Francisco was amazing, although I've not given it a second thought or chance here.

Gelato, too, I have tried on various occasions, and although it may have held my interest longer than ice-cream, I never got to the point where I'd be scouting locations to get the frozen stuff.

Until now.

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!

OMG you guys!!

The Rocky Rocher is to DIE for.

The Sicillian Pistachio is----sorry i just drooled all over my keyboard.....----amazing!!

And the banana/chocolate is, well, it's very banana-y (if you like that sort of thing) but it's no Rockey Rocher.

And never mind the creepy-We-Believe-in-Sick-Kids (a slogan all of us agreed wasn't very well thought out) duck-like-creature riding a bicycle outside, the gelato is heavenly.

We Believe in Creepy Duck-Like Creatures

They had sooo many amazing flavours! So if you're one who likes TANGY gelato, this place is for you (Dean). :)

Flavours

Galore!

If I hadn't been so stuffed with Amaya Express goodness, I would have cleaned up that cup! I still ate way more than my digestive system could manage, but it was totally worth it and I'd do it again in a second!