Eating my way around Boston and New York, a guest post by the gorgeousness that is Erica
Hello lovely English Mum readers. I’ve hijacked her blog today so that I can exercise my foodie passion. I’ve been eating my way around Boston and I thought I’d share my highlights with you. The trip was a two-legged trip, first few days were spent in Boston and the last two in New York. The food in America is pretty good depending on what you like, we went for standard American fare during this trip but there were plenty of fine dining options along the way. Here’s my food lover’s guide to Boston (and a wee bit of NYC) then..
Breakfast
Thornton’s is one of those places that you imagine the actual Bostonians eat, not touristy at all but with amazing food. Alex went for a breakfast bagel which was huge and I had poached eggs with rye bread and home fries (spicy potatoes). I love the Kitsch plates!
Boston loves Dunkin’ Donuts, in fact they have more Dunkin’ Donuts outlets per square metre than any other American city, 77 in total. They are literally everywhere. And their slogan? ‘America runs on Dunkin’, and they aren’t even being ironic. We went once as a treat!
My final breakfast highlight in Boston, and please don’t judge me, was at the train station (we travelled to New York by Amtrak). You know when you’re up early, cold and starving and you just want ‘dirty’ food. You know what I mean, right? Well Cosi delivered with this breakfast quiche. It was like quiche lorraine in a pastry cup, totally random but it hit the spot! The picture doesn’t do it justice. Honest.
The best breakfast I had, in fact it probably tied with Thornton’s, was at Tick Tock Diner in New York. French toast, bacon and maple syrup. Possibly the best food combination ever. Ridiculously huge portion that was made even more ridiculous with the serving of THREE milk jugs of maple syrup. Only in America.
Elevenses
Also known as second breakfast, ahem. We didn’t partake much. Honest.
Starbucks, they are everywhere, including a full size outlet inside our hotel as well as Starbucks perculator in the room! It was a little bit Starbucks overload if I’m honest and I’m now caffeine detox-ing.
I couldn’t write a post on English Mum without mentioning cupcakes. I don’t really eat cupcakes, apart from Englishmum’s Lime and Pistachio variety. I’m very discerning when it comes to my cupcakes dontcha know. I couldn’t not take a picture (my picture was rubbish so I picked one up from their site instead) of Johnny Cupcakes, which isn’t actually a cupcake store at all but a t-shirt shop, so there we are.
Slight departure from food there, but we’re back on it with Sugar Heaven, possibly the greatest sweet shop in the world. Loved it. Spent an absolute fortune. The pic n mix spans two full walls, that’s serious pic n mix people.
We spent $35 (just over £20) and bought everything from American Skittles to a ‘blood bag’ filled with liquid candy for Halloween.
Next time… lunch and dinner!
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Talking of American donuts OH has just called to say he has discovered a Krispy Kreme drive through in Enfield!! Tis a little too far for us to travel to just for a drive through (quicker to go to our local Tesco or Bluewater, park the car and pick up a twelve pack in store!)