Gudrun Chocolate

How do you start your morning?  Me, I begin with a cup of black coffee and a piece of chocolate.  Every day.  Without fail.  With coffee in hand, and lovely pairing of chocolate consumed, only THEN do I get on with making an actual breakfast.Some days I really crave a piece of simple, smooth, milky chocolate.  Other days I want it dark as can be with a perfect snap.  And some mornings, some mornings I want truffles.  It for days like...

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Sticky Toffee Pudding Co

When I was in London, I got a bit obsessed with finding good sticky toffee pudding, after having a really decent version on my Virgin Atlantic flight.  Sadly, most of the sticky toffee I had didn't really live up, even though I went for the famed version from Hawksmoore, an to a Gordon Ramsey restaurant, Heddon Street Kitchen, specifically for it.  They were goo, but not great, and I kinda even liked the vegan version from Tibits more. But my quest didn't...

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Sugar Cafe

Sugar Cafe was a unique concept in SF.  Cafe by day, bar by night.  And ... it really, truly did transform fairly dramatically.I discovered Sugar Cafe back during LevelUp's rise to popularity in SF, when I had fun checking out new places I found on there, drawn in of course by freebies.  Their LevelUp system was flaky at best, working less than half the time I visited, and when it *did* work, the staff always seemed quite surprised and amazed.Anyway,...

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BA 287, LHR - SFO, Club World

June 2015 FlightAfter a lovely massage at the Elemis Spa in Terminal 5, and my uh, 5th and 6th breakfast of the day (hotel breakfast in Paris, lounge breakfast at CDG, meal on flight from Paris to London, lounge breakfast in LHR ...), plus a few bites of lunch and ice cream in the Galleries First Lounge, it was time to head to my gate to board my flight to San Francisco.  I wasn’t really looking forward to flying at this point: I was stuffed full of food, nicely...

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