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Breakfast and pastry posts on The Joy of Food blog.

Café Medina

in Breakfast and Pastry, Carbapalooza, Canada, Vancouver, Comfort, Drink, Meaty Goodness, Middle Eastern 4 comments

Vancouver, Canada (The Joy of Food) — I’m not exactly what you’d call a breakfast girl, and I usually say “brunch” is just an excuse to shove down a stack of 25 red velvet pancakes and day drink. If you build it, they will brunch, or something like that. But […]

Thierry Chocolaterie Patisserie Cafe

in Breakfast and Pastry, Carbapalooza, Canada, Vancouver, Comfort, Dessert, Drink, French 4 comments

Vancouver, Canada (The Joy of Food) — The older I get, the more I lean toward dark chocolate, and melted bitter dark chocolate can be something like poetry in a cup. At Thierry, an order of ‘liquid chocolate’ is decadent and indulgent, swirled with ribbons of hazelnut, caramel, or coconut […]

Mom’s Pie House

in American, Breakfast and Pastry, Carbapalooza, Comfort, Dessert, Drink, United States, The Milky Way, San Diego, CA 4 comments

San Diego, CA (The Joy of Food) — For many flip flop-wearing San Diego tweens born into a life without weather or seasons, a trip to Julian in ‘winter’ is the first time they see snow. A favorite pastime of locals is to drive up to Julian, stop on the […]

Randy’s Donuts

in American, Breakfast and Pastry, Dessert, United States, Los Angeles, CA 2 comments

Los Angeles, CA (The Joy of Food) — If you’ve ever flown into the City of Angels, you’ve been welcomed to town by a giant donut on top of a shack, a sight as venerable a part of the L.A. landscape as the Hollywood sign, the Griffith, or the Getty. […]

El Brazo Fuerte

in Breakfast and Pastry, Carbapalooza, Comfort, Dessert, Cuban, United States, Miami, FL 6 comments

Miami, FL (The Joy of Food) — A Cuban bakery may be the most overwhelming place you can visit in Little Havana, a plethora of carb-laden choices staring you in the face and people swarming to get at them. You’re quickly reminded that Miami’s Cuban population is second only to […]

Garden State Bagels

in American, Breakfast and Pastry, Carbapalooza, United States, San Diego, CA 4 comments

San Diego, CA (The Joy of Food) — The bagels at Garden State are fresh in the mornings, sometimes still hot from the oven, fragrantly sweet, soft without being bready, ready to ripen into the moist, day-old chewiness most people associate with their morning bagel. The allure of the bagel […]

Mamaleh’s Delicatessen

in American, Breakfast and Pastry, Carbapalooza, Comfort, Cambridge, MA, United States 4 comments

Cambridge, MA (The Joy of Food) — Mamaleh’s is a modern delicatessen reborn into a civic space that lacks the chubby neon sign, battered counter, and leather booths of other delis with which you’re probably familiar. And yet, as a working Jewish deli, all the classic hits are served here: […]

Birrieria Don Rafa

in Breakfast and Pastry, Carbapalooza, Comfort, Meaty Goodness, United States, Mexican, San Diego, CA 7 comments

San Diego, CA (The Joy of Food) — For every street taco joint or fish taco truck in San Diego’s many South Bay neighborhoods, there will be at least one birrieria to soak up the alcohol. Birria — a Mexican dish of shredded goat or beef, stewed in a broth […]

Le Doux Ciel

in Breakfast and Pastry, Vancouver, Canada, Dessert, French 2 comments

Vancouver, Canada (The Joy of Food) — Everything at Le Doux Ciel is an explosion of pink: it’s in the seat cushions, in the lamps, and in the giant spherical things that hang from the ceiling. If you’ve ever wondered what the inside of Barbie’s Dollhouse looks like, this is […]