Showing posts with label cafe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cafe. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Be'wiched Cafe, Surrey BC

You really really have to look hard to find this little cafe. In something resembling a strip mall tucked behind the warehouses and big chain restaurants Be'witched gets lost in the noise, invisible from the street. Almost invisible parked right outside its doors.
I suppose Be’witched has to depend on word of month or in my case other bloggers. Thanks to: Follow me Foodie.
I came because word has it that this place makes everything from scratch and uses organic?
I like that.
I also came for the chilli. It was just that type of day but alas, out of luck, no chilli today. So I grabbed the Cuban Sandwich and the Follow me Foodie recommended pumpkin cookie.

The sandwich was nice, above average, maybe I've had too many Panini’s in my time, because at the end of the day that is what a Cuban sandwich is. I'd order it again it was a nice lunch.
The cookie, yes it was fantastic and unique, highly recommended. Not often you come across great taste and uniqueness, but to be fair, it’s easily more of a pumpkin cake with frosting then a cookie. Just saying. Still F..ing good.
I'll be back to Be’witched Cafe, I like the homey feel, I like that they make everything fresh and from scratch and like supporting unique mom and pop places like this.

But guys get some signage

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Belle's on 32 , the coffee shop

I don't need to go back.
Belle’s is a nice enough place, a country coffee shop kind of feel, a Martha Stewart Living wanna be but more likely designed my Marsha, Martha’s less talented second cousin.
I think my biggest issue with Belle's are the Panini sandwiches. Belle’s advertises that they make everything from scratch but then they serve this really bad panini bread and its not just Belle's that does this I've noticed other restaurants use this same bread this flat oval ultra white "Panini " bread. The colour and the thickness of this bread scares me it doesn’t seem natural it just seams wrong. Don’t even get me started on the grill marks. What's wrong with using good quality bread in your Panini’s? Here's my rule of thumb; if you wouldn't eat the bread without it being grilled then why use it at all?
Maybe I'm blinded by the bread issue maybe Belle's serves something of quality? To be fair the apple tart was tasty. OK, I'd go back for the tart. I'd sit in Marsha’s comfortable faux country design cafe have a latte eat my tart turn my back to the order counter and try not to think of white  Panini bread.
Who am I kidding, I can't get the damn bread off of my mind!
BTW, Belle’s also has a full service restaurant right next door to the cafĂ©. I’m curious. I’ll let you know.


Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Pronto. Mmmm Porchetta


How can this be bad? Take pork belly, where the bacon comes from, stuff it with a bunch of good stuff like rosemary, parsley and garlic, role it up, skin out, and roast it slowly until the fat renders and permeates the entire roll. While the pork is hot and the skin is crispy cut it thick like you would a sausage then dice it all up and put in a baguette.

OMG, simple, decedent, beautiful.

You need to check this place out. As soon as you walk through the door pork roast hits all of your senses. The restaurant itself is a small diner feel serving simple porchetta and other deli sandwiches. Quite frankly I really don’t care about the other stuff; I’m never going to order it anyway, it’s strictly porchetta for me. And I may have to come by multiple times per day.