Japanese cheesecake coming to Chinatown

By adamg - Fri, 02/09/2024 - 11:56am

Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Uncle Tetsu, which makes cheesecakes, including green-tea matcha cheesecake and ube cheesecake made with purple Filipino yams, plans to open its first East Coast outlet on Hudson Street in Chinatown.

New Harvard Avenue shop betting late-night revelers will want some healthy fruit snacks

By adamg - Thu, 02/27/2014 - 4:24pm

Sweet Kingdom, which plans to sell only "healthy" desserts made of fruits and light sugar, won approval today to stay open until 2 a.m. at 145 Harvard Ave.

Flaming desserts are hot at seafood place

By adamg - Fri, 04/23/2010 - 9:02am

Tiny Urban Kitchen posts photos of the baked Alaska at the Oceanaire Seafood Room on Court Street (which is part of a Midwestern cha

The age-old debate: Cannolis from Mike's or the Modern?

By adamg - Tue, 10/27/2009 - 9:08am

Jen can't decide, but says the cannolis at Mike's have one advantage - if you buy so many that you can't eat them all at once:

... From personal experience, I have found that the cannolis from Mike's Pastry keep longer. The shells seem to stay relatively crunchy for at least one whole day (overnight), whereas the Modern Pastry cannolis get soggy in less than 24 hours. This could be because the Modern shells are smaller, lighter, and more delicate than the heftier, cookie-like shells from Mike's. ...