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Giveaway: Ice Cream Sundaes from Ghirardelli

June 8, 2015 by Angie Sommer 2 Comments

Update: The winner of the giveaway is Nina from San Francisco! Thanks for the email, Nina; enjoy your sundaes!

Yeay, ice cream! The weather is (sort of) heating up, and it’s time to enjoy a nice ice cream sundae at one of Ghirardelli’s San Francisco ice cream and chocolate shops. If you’d like to try two sundaes for free, leave a comment below or email me at brocandchoc [at] gmail.com for a chance to win*!

ghirardelli coupons… 

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Filed Under: Dessert, Giveaway!, Ice Cream and Yogurt

Review: Nothing Bundt Cakes

August 3, 2013 by Angie Sommer 5 Comments

Nothing Bundt Cakes stopped by my office a few weeks ago and gave us a free cake. A FREE CAKE. Let me tell you the tale.

A woman walked in with a cake in a box. She explained that someone on our floor had ordered some cakes. They had made one extra to give to someone else to try their cake. We were the randomly chosen winner of said cake. FREE CAKE.

I didn't manage to take a picture of the actual cake we received. But these beautiful cake photos are from their website http://www.nothingbundtcakes.com. I assume they don't mind me using them.

I didn’t manage to take a picture of the actual cake we received. But these beautiful cake photos are from their website http://www.nothingbundtcakes.com. I assume they don’t mind me using them.

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Filed Under: Dessert Tagged With: Greater Bay Area

Review: Humphry Slocombe

February 10, 2012 by Angie Sommer 3 Comments

Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream is a quaint little shop in the Mission where you can get rad flavors of ice cream any day of the week. I’m only still learning the lingo of the SF food scene, but apparently HS is all the rage. And I have no idea what’s up with the name, btw. (Update: Per this NY Times article, “Mr. Humphries and Mrs. Slocombe were characters on the bawdy old British sitcom ‘Are You Being Served?'”)

The line outside Humphrey Slocombe on your typical sunny Saturday (or so I’m told).

One time, I went to this ice cream shop in Berkeley that had a line out the door. And I was like, “oh, wow, this place must be amazing”. A double scoop of basil and lavender ice creams later and I was done with that place. So when I heard that Humphry Slocombe serves up their own unique flavors, I braced myself for some seriously weird hippie shit. They did not deliver. Which is to say, it was amazing…. 

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Filed Under: Dessert, Ice Cream and Yogurt Tagged With: Mission, San Francisco

Review: Sugar Mommie Cookies

January 31, 2011 by Angie Sommer Leave a Comment

Cookies, you say? Let’s just take it easy and start with cupcakes. Well, that’s what I started with, but who knows where Sugar Mommie will take me in the future?

Cupcakes

Cupcakes!!

Last Friday, the Man Thang* and I went to Family House of Fish and Poultry in Hayward (which will be an entirely other story and post) and obtained a heavenly treat: one Red Velvet cupcake made by Sugar Mommie Cookies. For some reason my initial thought was that a $3.50 cupcake was a bit pricey. I have since reconsidered and now wonder how it is that Ms. Mommie can afford to sell much such a treat at such a low price. Cases for buying one of these cupcakes:… 

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Filed Under: Dessert Tagged With: San Lorenzo

Review: Loard’s Ice Cream

December 4, 2009 by Angie Sommer 10 Comments

Atmosphere: 4/5   ♦   Service: 5/5   ♦   Food Quality: 5/5   ♦   Value: 5/5
Times Visited: Lots   ♦   Will I Return?: Have to restrain from going every day.
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Cue heavenly sounding boys choir.  (Halleluja…)

Loard’s is an Establishment as far as I’m concerned. Capital “E” and everything.  The decorations are from a decade when my parents roamed the play yards (and I mean that they were children, not just really creepy adults) – pink and white stripes installed with enough vigor and enthusiasm to last a century.  And boy do I hope it does.

I have frequented this shop pretty much since I was a kid but became especially attached after obtaining my driver’s license and being miraculously allowed to chauffeur myself down for a sundae anytime I darn well pleased.

Pink stripes aside, Loard’s ice cream is legendary.  It is deliciously creamy and the choice of flavors is unrivaled … 

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Filed Under: Dessert, Ice Cream and Yogurt Tagged With: Castro Valley

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