Last week Jonas and I celebrated our 6 year anniversary! Wow, time flies fast! We both took the day off from work, as it was a Tuesday and wanted to spend the entire day together. We didn’t have any special plans for the day, but we did go for an anniversary brunch at the Ivy…
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Christmas Party with the Polish Bakery
Earlier this week I went to a Christmas Press Event for The Polish Bakery! It was situated in South Kensington and included a beautiful event for bloggers, press and friends! It was such a wonderful evening filled with delicious snacks, prosecco and amazing Polish Bakery treats! The bakery is famous for it’s traditional recipes, natural and preservative-free,…
Weekend Breakfasts: A hint of France
Goodmorning! I am back at University and all settled in now and getting ready for my final year! I haven’t posted a weekend breakfasts post this week and decided to share with you the lovely food Jonas and I had for breakfast yesterday morning! As I didn’t have food at my place for the first…
Cafe Review: ALI Sokoladine
This is a cafe that I recommend to all tourists and people living in Vilnius! If you love delicate cakes, macarons and eclairs – you HAVE to go to ALI sokoladine or eklerine. Only a couple of days ago did one of their store change to eklerine (eclairs) but they still sell chocolates and macarons,…
Recipe: Chocolate cupcakes!
A truly decadent, delicious, sweet, moist and sinful treat! Made these the other day for Jonas’ family and everyone seemed to love them! I really liked the frosting – so chocolatey and perfect with these cupcakes! Recipe: makes 18 Ingredients: For cupcakes 150g butter 1 cup caster sugar 3/4 cup cocoa 1/3 cup boiling…
Afternoon Tea at The Threadneedles Hotel
On my birthday Jonas and I went to have afternoon tea at the London Threadneedles Hotel – the Marco Pierre Oyster bar. Let’s just say the beautiful dome and the themed desserts caught my eye online so I chose this place. It’s centred in the bank centre of London where it’s quite busy but the…
Afternoon Tea at The Grosvenor House Hotel – round #2 !
So about a month ago, when our friends from Lithuania were visiting us – we took them to one of our loved afternoon tea places. I already posted about our first experience at the Grosvenor House Hotel, but I thought I would do another quick post of what we were served the second time around! Not…
Afternoon tea at Egerton House Hotel
I’ve posted about several other afternoon teas I have enjoyed in London: The Royal Garden Hotel and Grosvenor House Hotel. I go a bit more in depth about the whole experience and tradition in the other two posts but I have been waiting to post about the time we went to Egerton house hotel…
