Baked By Melissa

They’re tiny. They’re easy to eat. And they’re delicious.

Yep Baked by Melissa takes the concept of original cake turned mini cake-cupcake to even TINIER bite sized treats of Love.

With standard flavors such as Red Velvet, Cinnamon, Chocolate Chip Cupcake and Tie Dye just to name a few, you now don’t have to choose between flavors.

 

Depending on your order total, your mini cupcake can cost you $1 or less.

This makes it great to pick and choose and not having to feel guilty about eating too many normal sized cupcakes or even regretting no to try that flavor you were originally going for but decided to go back to your normal safety zone flavor.

Even though the cupcakes are smaller and about 1/10th of a size of a regular cupcake, that doesn’t mean it lacks any type of flavor. In fact its like a big ol’ POP in your mouth.

My personal favorites are the Red Velvet, Cookies & Cream, Chocolate Chip Pancake and Smores.

The best part of Melissa’s is that the flavor names are pretty much self explanatory and you don’t have to be asking the staff whats in the cupcake.

So why not indulge a little? Melissa makes grabbing cupcakes a quick and painful one stop trip! And you don’t even have to worry about getting crumbs all over your self! The quick one or two bites you take eliminates the mess!

With many shops located around Manhattan, Baked by Melissa is a great choice for personal cravings, parties and even fashion shows!

Just ask fashion designer Betsey Johnson who during the month of February collaborated with Melissa to create really cool pink cupcakes for her Fall/Winter line show at New York City’s Mercedes Benz Fashion Show!

If models can eat them, why can’t you?

Not lucky enough to be living in the great city of New York? No worries! Melissa offers nation wide shipping so you can have your little bites delivered right to the comfort of your own home!

Boyd’s Thai

So Monday I get a follow from an @Urbanfoodjunky on twitter and I’m thinking ok, just another spamming blog. But long behold, its a trusted food guru who got me to try Halal from a cart on Hillside Ave in Queens one day.

So being that our circle of friends loop in here and there, it was no doubt we would follow his first suggestion on a Tuesday afternoon as we finished shopping.

Following his suggestion of Boyd Thai located in the Village in NYC, the fifteen minute walk from Union Square Park was quite pleasent seeing as it had amazing scenery and really got our appetite going.

Located right in the middle of bunch of many little cute and hippiesh shops on Thompson Street (near Bleecker) the glass windows and ultra modern restaurant definitely gives ambiance making it as perfect for a first date as it does for a night out with friends.

Offering lunch specials that start around $9.00 depending on choice of meat, Boyd’s also offers an early bird special from 4-7 that includes and entree, soup or salad and rolls all starting at about $12.

Here are three things off the menu that is a must try and one that I would definitely never be ordering again.

Crispy Calamari: $6.00

I love fried calamari and usually its always the Asian restaurants I visit that do it best, and this is no exception.

My reason for loving fried calamari is that it allows you to eat a type of seafood you probably would never eat because if its not fried, don’t bother on getting me to try squid. If you can fry squid and not get it to fall apart and take away most of the seafood taste then you’ve already done it for me.

Crispy is def what would this explain this appetizer and will def be something I look forward to ordering again.

Pineapple Fried Rice w Chicken: $9.00 w.o meat (add $1-3) depending on choice of meat.

This right here ladies and gentle man is what you may just call DELICIOUS. If there’s a dish at Boyd’s that will have me coming back its definitely this one.

The pineapple and chicken compliment each other so well that you’re almost left at a cross between a pina colada and a thanksgiving ham. The rice was also very delicious seeing as it wasn’t too oily or hard, cooked to perfection.

Also, if you’re a fan of nuts then you’ll get a crunchy sweet addition of cashew nuts which tastes almost like the roasted almonds sold throughout New York City nuts stands.

Grilled Beef Salad:

I actually didn’t get a chance to try this but according to my friend who did order it, it was really good. With that being said if I ever feel like grabbing a salad one day while I’m out shopping, Boyd’s will be one of the places I visit if I want a nice sit down & serve spot.

I can say though that it did look very good and seemed to have actual pieces of meat not little portions of meat and the rest just greens or noodles depending on what it comes with.

What looked like tomatoes, red onion, cucumber and greens dressed in a vinagertte, I would hope it was kind of sour. Giving it a Latin Carne Asada with pico de gallo taste.

Now the dish I would never ever order again, which quite ironically is the most ordered dish of the restaurant: The Pad Thai Noodles

I took a single noodle strand and almost felt like I was chewing slimy rubber. Since the proportioins are very large it made sense that I’d share this with someone else, and niether of us even so much took more than 3 bites.

I actually did try to take more but the taste and the feel of it just wasn’t working so we just ended up picking out the chicken chunks and munching on that.

Another note worth mentioning: If you arrive after 4pm Monday-Thursday you should try their unlimited Sangria special for $10. I guarantee you it puts in work and its really great tasting, good quality Sangria.

and I mean $10 for unlimited Sangria pitchers? How can you not?