Pop in to pastry heaven at Mr.Holmes Bakehouse in San Francisco and try the crispy croissant that's shaped like a muffin and filled with vanilla custard. This clever riff on the traditional muffin is called a cruffin.
Update 2024: Mr. Holmes Bakehouse has closed all shops in San Francisco and Los Angeles, CA.
LONDON—Dalston Cola! is an infused natural cola. Great chilled and drunk straight from the bottle, or poured over ice and garnished with Luxardo maraschino cherries, or added to a cocktail.
All of Dalston's small batch sodas are made by hand, bottled and labeled in Hackney Wick in East London. 100% natural, no additives, concentrates, artificial flavorings or preservatives added, and sulfite /sulphite free.
What's inside: carbonated water, lots of fresh kola nuts (source of natural caffeine and cola flavor), fresh squeezed lime juice, lemon juice and orange juice, sultanas, fresh ginger root, nutmeg, cinnamon, star anise, lavender, and Fairtrade cane sugar.
Dalston's Soda Co.
London UK
The best bake shop in Paris, sink your teeth into Scoop Me A Cookie's piping-hot cookies with crispy edges and gooey centers. An entrepreneurial vision sprung to life in Canada, and after two years of intense recipe testing—Scoop Me a Cookie—now has two brick and mortar locations in Paris. All cookies are shaped by hand and baked on site.
Scoop Me a Cookie uses only the finest ingredients: AOC butter, organic eggs and flour, raw sugar, and only French Valrhona Grand Cru chocolate.
Available at Scoop Me a Cookie locations around Paris and via their website.
Scoop Me a Cookie
Batignolles
72 rue Legendre
75017 Paris
Tel: 01 71 72 91 65
Intelligentsia Black Cat Espresso ice cream is one of six limited-flavors now available from Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream. Popular Chicago coffee roaster Intelligentsia's Black Cat Espresso makes this one rich, and aromatic ice cream. The other flavors in the collection are Savannah Buttermint ice cream, Roasted Strawberry Buttermilk ice cream, Lemon & Blueberries Buttermilk Frozen Yogurt, Brambleberry Sorbet, and Riesling Poached Pear Sorbet. Pick a pint or try all six.
Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream
Plain yogurt wouldn't be the same without stirring in a few spoonfuls of jam made by INNA jam in Emeryville, California. INNA jam is a multiple Good Food™ award winner that makes small batch, single source, varietal jams from seasonal, organic fruit grown within 150 miles of their Emeryville kitchen. For jam purists, INNA jams do not contain a mashup of single fruit types from different growers.
What's inside INNA jam's Black Mulberry: Organic black mulberries from Dunnigan, California, organic unrefined cane sugar and fruit pectin.
INNA jam
1307 61st Street
Emeryville, California 94608
Llaollao's Petitllao™, a twirled curlicue of natural vanilla frozen yogurt in a petit tub paired with a Simply®, one of Copenhagen's best chocolatiers, decadent Dark Marci – a premium dark chocolate double-dipped bar filled with Spanish almond marzipan.
Try llaollao™ (pronounced "yao-yao") natural frozen yogurt. Each llaollao shop makes their healthy and gluten-free yogurt on premise, served in a creamy, towering swirl at 5º celsius in a tub (pictured above) or the smaller sized Petitllao™ (pictured below).
Top with a selection of fresh fruits: mango, melon, pineapple, pomegranate, strawberry, nectarine...sauces: honey, praline, raffallao, dulche de leche, cherry, dark chocolate... and crunchies: caramelized sunflower seeds, white chocolate peanuts, grated coconut, cinnamon, Toblerone, almond brittle, etc.
The first llaollao™ shops opened in Spain in 2009. Now you can find a llaollao location in more than 13 countries on four continents, with more locations opening across the globe.
Update 2024: Ten years after the publishing the below article we re-researched Edward's Cordial in Suffolk, England and could no longer find availability of their products.
Edward's Cordial makes a delicious range of cordial flavors. All made by hand in Suffolk, England using fragrant and fresh combinations of fruit and herbs for their sophisticated flavors: Rhubarb & Lavender, Blackcurrant & Basil, Strawberry & Mint, and Raspberry & Ginger – available year round. Seasonal offerings include Gooseberry & Elderflower, and Spiced Plum (pictured above).
Each cordial combines 100% pressed juice, local and ethically sourced, with nothing artificial and no preservatives. Available in 330ml and 500ml bottles in quantity packs of 4, 6 and 10. Serve chilled over ice or as a unique cocktail base.
The winner of two gold stars from the Guild of Fine Foods, winner of several Great Taste awards, and Bursary Awards Excellent British Specialty Foods Producer. Edward's is the official cordial of the Tate family of museums in London and Cornwall.
Edward's Cordial
CO 10 9bn Lavenham
Suffolk England, UK
Frey Biodynamic 2013 Mendocino Cabernet Sauvignon, certified USDA organic, meets Demeter Wine Standards for the USA, no added sulfites, no sugar or acid adjustments, no cultured/GMO yeasts or malolactic bacteria, just grapes grown in rich soil and hand harvested.
Frey Vineyards is America's first producer of certified organic and biodynamic wine, with a dynamic portfolio of award winning wines full of naturally occurring antioxidants and phytonutrients rather than chemical additives, synthetic preservatives, pesticide and herbicide residues found in conventionally-produced wine.
Visit Frey Winery and the Organic Wine Tasting Room in Mendocino County, California or shop online at the Frey Wine Shop.
Frey Vineyards Winery
Redwood Valley, Mendocino County, CA
Tel: +1 707.485.5177
A trip to popbar™ will involve devouring a creme de la creme frozen treat on a stick. Like this Pistachio popGelato—a handcrafted gelato pop dipped in pistachio poppings, with one half dipped again in dark chocolate.
Select from a palette of flavors and pop styles—popGelato, popSorbetto, YogurtPop, Popbar, or customize a myPop—add your own coatings, dips, dunks, and poppings. These cool pops are made in house daily, at all locations, using real fruit and all natural ingredients, no artificial flavorings, preservatives, or high-fructose corn syrup, and are gluten-free.
popbar
Los Angeles, New York City
and other US cities
Open any bottle of Sine Qua Non wine and uncork the mad genius of Manfred and Elaine Krankl, the storied and meticulous California winemakers of some of the finest, most elusive and exclusive cult wines in the world. Their 2010 Five Shooter Grenache {pictured above) was created from five grape varieties – 75% Grenache, 16% Syrah, 2.5% Mourvedre, 4.5% Roussanne and 2% Viognier – from Sine Qua Non's Cumulus, Eleven Confessions and Bien Nacido Vineyards. Vintages available through fine wine auctions and fine wine distributors worldwide. Direct from Sine Qua Non (SQN) via private mailing list.
Sine Qua Non
PO Box 104
Oak View, California 93022
Tel: +1 805 649 8901
Cookie dough with a confetti of rainbow sprinkles and creamy vanilla frosting swirled throughout. Birthday Bash is one of a variety of delicious ready-to-eat cookie dough flavors that are handmade in small-batches by Edoughble in LA.
Eat and enjoy Edoughble's raw cookie dough with peace of mind. Their products contain no raw eggs, i.e. are totally eggless, and no preservatives or artificial flavors. Edoughble cookie dough is made with only the freshest, all natural, high-end ingredients. Certified kosher by KosherLA.
Edoughble
9330 Duxbury Rd.
Los Angeles, California
US 90034
Sullivan & Bleeker Baking Co. is one of Canada's best bakeries and 100% nut free. Located in Toronto, all products are made with premium ingredients, the best chocolate, baked locally and hand-decorated. Sullivan & Bleeker offers a large variety of delicious regular and mini sized cupcakes, and also features cookies, and jarcakes. Whatever gourmet goodie goes in the hand from Sullivan & Bleeker bakery will quickly wind up in one's mouth.
Sullivan & Bleeker Baking Co.
877 Alness Street
Toronto ON M3J 2X4
Tele: +1 416.961.3553
Crème de la crème in a cup—South Korea's Honey Creme premium soft serve ice cream is one of Asia's premier soft serve ice creams, with specialty boutiques in Singapore, China, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and San Francisco, CA. Honey Creme's Tiramisu is hand crafted with Honey Creme's 100% organic milk based ice cream, lady finger cookies, Baileys, espresso, and topped off with a dusting of cocoa. The ice cream menu includes Organic Cotton Candy Affogato, Organic Cotton Candy, Dark Chocolate, Honey Comb, and many other cool and creamy creations.
Honey Creme USA
839 Irving Street
San Francisco, CA 94112
Ombar Pure 90% Raw Cacao bar is dark, surprisingly creamy, and nutrient rich unlike highly processed chocolate. Ombar uses 100% organic, premium, Nacional Arriba cacao beans from Ecuador that deliver a unique flavor profile, one that isn't bitter, and is sweetened with unrefined coconut sugar. Ombar's raw organic chocolate line is dairy free, and certified organic by the UK Soil Association.
Ombar®
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Hotel Chocolat's take on the traditional English dessert Eton Mess is a tasty, curvaceous 75g/2.6oz slab of strawberry and vanilla flavored white chocolate with crunchy bits of tangy, fresh freeze-dried strawberries, meringue, and biscuit.
Hotel Chocolat is a British chocolatier with over 70 shops in the UK, Australia and Denmark, that offer a lavish selection of classic and eclectic slabs, batons, bars and chocolate collections. Hotel Chocolat is the only chocolate company in the UK that grows its own cocoa. Hotel Chocolat ships worldwide.
Hotel Chocolat
Customer Service: +1 03444 93 23 23
Order 24/7: +1 03444 93 13 13
Milk Chocolate Morsels are crunchy pistachios enrobed in milk chocolate and caramelized with a dusting of icing sugar, one item in the Toronto based Dufflet® Small Indulgences collection. Enjoy straight out of the box, add as a topping to a favorite ice cream, cupcake, or cake. Keep Milk Chocolate Morsels whole or chop up and add to brownie batter, cake batter, or cookie dough.
Dufflet®
Toronto, Ontario
Siegfried Rheinland Dry Gin is a premium, micro-batch gin, handcrafted by Rheinland Distillers. A uniquely German engineered gin that utilizes 18 botanicals from the Rhine Region, including the aromatic Linden tree blossom, well known in Europe for attracting bees that produce a delicious honey.
Upon its world wide debut, this subtle yet complex Deutschland gin won gold medal after gold medal. A top-shelf gin distilled traditionally in small units from only the finest ingredients, without any industrial tools, artificial flavors or additives.
Siegfried Gin
Rheinland Distillers UG
Mozartstr. 7
53115 Bonn
Germany
Luxardo® Cherries Jubilee, a luxurious and gluten-free nod to the classic flambéed cherry dessert, is one of six awesome new ice creams in Jeni's Ice Creams American Licks Collection. The ice cream base is brandy-scented for a nice boozy flavor, without the alcohol bite, and each creamy, pink-hued spoonful contains an indulgent amount of Italy's best candied cherries—Luxardo® Maraschino Cherries.
Ingredients: nonfat milk, cream, cane sugar, Luxardo® cherries (cherries, sugar, marasca cherry juice, glucose, citric acid, natural color, maraschino flavor), tapioca starch, brandy flavor (ethyl alcohol, natural flavor, glycerine), Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Extract (water, alcohol, sugar, vanilla bean extractives), red beet powder (color).
Available at Jeni's scoop shops in America, select gourmet retailers, and through Jeni's website with convenient home delivery to all 50 states.
Jeni's Ice Creams
401 N. Front St. Ste. 300
Columbus, OH 43215
Tele: 614.488.3224
Single pint glass jar of luxurious Cranberry Walnut ice cream, tickled pink with fresh cranberries from Pitt Meadows Farms. Candied walnuts are added for sweetness and crunch. Crafted and handmade by Earnest Ice Cream in Vancouver, British Columbia. Seriously good. Available seasonally.