Valentines Day Sweets for Your Sweet

Valentine's Day is just around the corner- waiting there. What are you going to do for your Valentine this year? Roses? A Hallmark card that sings? Another teddy bear? Sigh.

Tribeca Treats has customized gift baskets, allowing you to tailor your gift to your sweetie's sweet tooth. Cookies, brownies, chocolates... there are so many options! Best of all, if you order by noon on Thursday you will be guaranteed Valentine's delivery. How sweet is that?
You know your sweets are in good hands with Tribeca Treats. After all, they won the popular vote for best gingerbread house among entries from 8 other NYC bakeries in a contest at Le Parker Meridien which raised over $12,000 for City Harvest. This is their entry, "Christmas in Palm Springs".

After looking at all of those sweets, wouldn't a cookie taste good right about now?

When You Need a Little Something...

Sometimes you just need a little something... Maybe you need to bring something for a party or a morning pick me up. If so, here are a couple of suggestions to help scratch that itch:

Duane Park Patisserie made the cutest cookies for Easter. What a hit with the family when we brought a box over!

Zucker's Bagels is a nice addition to the neighborhood. I always see a friendly face when I stop in to pick up a homemade yogurt or bagel with tuna. The coffee is good too.

Tribeca Treats

A local parent describes a happy indulgence:

"If I walk down Reade Street with the kids, I have to expect a "PLEEEASE!". I know what they're talking about without any more details. Translation: "Can we stop at Tribeca Treats?" And it is a treat--these are not the kind of cookies you'll see at the school bake sales (and certainly not coming out of my kitchen). These are exquisite, caramel-filled, or ganache filled sandwich cookies ( a description that hardly does them justice). And I don't feel so bad about splurging--I suspect the ingredients used are top-quality and hardly the stuff you'll find in the shrink-wrapped chocolate chip cookies at the deli. They're dainty and satisfying without inducing guilt. For a place that deals in so much sugar there's a calm serene atmosphere: a table to sit at and cookbooks to peruse. So okay, sometimes we all need a treat."