Showing posts with label hot chocolate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hot chocolate. Show all posts

Sunday, 24 January 2016

Places to visit in London

London is a massive city and there is so much to visit in London. I want to share my London places I liked and still visit. You might have heard of these places and may have even visited them, or maybe you are planing your London vacation and I want to recommend some really cool places to explose. 


There is a Belgium chocolate place called Godiva. It has a few restaurants all around Central London but the one I visited was at Harrods. I must say it is quite pricy but so good. If you have never had a actual real hot chocolate (like melted hot chocolate) at a restaurant please try this. It is soooooo good. It has dark, milk and white chocolates and they also sell chocolate truffles or you can get fondue or crepes and it is just the best. It is super rich so you will definitely need some water with it. I can assure you, your soul will swim in chocolate after this and will be forever grateful. 


Made in Italy is the cutest little Italian restaurant. It is in Chelsea so it is very fancy. I have yet to go to Italy but when I think of Italy that's what I imagine their houses and restaurants look like. I mean the ones at the country side. It had wooden tables and chairs with lots of dried peppers and garlic hanging of the walls and very nice paintings.  All the waitresses (well when I was there) spoke Italian so you really get a full experience. It has a very pretty terrace so maybe visit this in the warmer months. In the summer the restaurant is full of flowers and greenery and it is the cutest. 
The food is also amazing. It is super tasty and actually you get a lot in one plate. They also make a pizza to share. I think this place is very Insta, I love it. 


I always wanted to have a place to go and see all the new art work. Saatchi gallery is just right for that. It is very modern and they always put up new things in there. You can find this gallery at Sloane Squire and it is admission free. Their art ranges from painting to pictures to sculptures. 
It is just a cool place to visit. Sure you might not get all the art but it is fun to see what artists get up to. 


If you have not tried Lola's you don't know what life is. Not only they are super cute but they are so tasty.  I have tried quite a few and I really liker Red Velvet as well as this one on your left. I think it was called Blackcurrant cheesecake.  These come in normal size cupcakes as well as small. I think it is super cute to gift your friend if you want to make them happy.  You can find them scattered around central London usually they have like a little stall but it looks really snazzy.
You need to try this!


To be honest London is full of fancy bakery shops that does lot of cute cupcakes. If you walk around central I guarantee you will find a few. To be honest I have never tried any of these bakeries but their windows always look so pretty and I just want to make tons of pictures to have as memories. 
They look so delicious. 


This is probably my favourite place to hang out. I love nights and I love rooftops. I always wanted to get a flat that has a little balcony that you can get onto and watch the city.  You can find this at One New Change at St. Pauls. It has a fancy as club on your right (that it on top floor of the shopping centre)  and on your left there is a roof top to look around. Because of the club there might be a cue don't be intimidated just ask the security and they will let you through if you wanna get on a roof top, unless you wanna go to that club then you gotta wait in a cue. 
I would suggest going at night, but that is just my preference. 

Yours Izabele
xoxo

Saturday, 5 December 2015

Festive Christmas Drinks


As soon as pumpking spice latte came out I was excited about Christmas drinks. Not long after pumpkin spice late all the Christmas Drinks came out too. I was very excited about Costa drinks as they had a big range of festive drinks and I really love costa coffee. 

The first drink I had was Salted Caramel Cappuccino from Costa. It sounded super nice but ended up tasting like caramel Cappuccino. I think when you use things that dissolve in liquids it's not gonna be the same. Like salted caramel cakes are fine because you can taste caramel and the salt, but when it is in a drink then the salt dissolves and you are just left with caramel drink. 2 out of 5.


Then I had Caramel Fudge Chocolate from Costa. OMG THIS ONE IS GOOD. Yeah it deserves capitals! It is just so chocolaty chocolate goodness. It taste so chocolaty and that chocolate net thing on the top sinks to the bottom and the last few sips you have rich hot chocolate and melted actual hot chocolate! I want it now! This is how hot chocolate should be, very rich and chocolaty and the best! Please try it. 5 out of 5.


Then I tried Black Forest and Gingerbread Latte. These are my least favorite drinks from the whole range. I am not fan of ginger yet it did make me feel quite festive and it wasn't so bad. Black forest hot chocolate was like normal hot chocolate but with cherry sauce which is nice but it wasn't Caramel Fudge Hot Chocolate. Both I score 3 out of 5.


I didn't get to try White Hot Chocolate from Costa last year so I made sure I tried it this year because people were going crazy for it. To be honest I don't see what the fuss is about. It is okay, it taste a little different from the normal hot chocolate but to me it tasted very milky. I score this white chocolate a 2 out of 5.

Then I tried Starbucks  Eggnog Latte which was very festive yet very rich in flavour and it tasted like liquor a little bit. I had to through it away half way through because it was just making me feel sick. it was like Baileys being made into a latte. Not for me. 1 out of 5.


The last drink I tried was Honey & Almond Hot Chocolate and Toffee Nut Latte. If you like marzipan you will love Honey & Almond Hot chocolate. It tastes very almondy and personally I don't like marzipan but with good conversation I finished the whole thing and I kind of liked it at the end. I also like that it comes with chocolate whipped cream, I thought that was interesting and new. 3 out of 5. 
Toffee Nut Latte on the other hand I really liked. It tastes like nuts and latte and recently I feel in love with the taste of nuts. I opt for nutty ice-cream and cakes if I have them. This one I score a 4 out of 5.

Of course there are many more coffee shops and Christmas drinks to try out but I just got cautious of how much sugar goes in those drinks and I just stopped getting them. they are also quite expensive from £2.50 and up to £4. 
If you have any good suggestions I am open to them so please let me know. 
Enjoy your Festive drinks! 

Yours Izabele
xoxo










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