• raspberry sorbet mimosa & orange margarita mimosa

    2 NYE cocktails: sunset and sunrise mimosas;

    December 23, 2022bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    Two delicious NYE cocktails. One tangy black raspberry to celebrate the sunset on 2022, and the other a spiked tequila sunrise bubbly to ring in the new year!

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  • Pork Belly from Brunch Review: Penn Commons @ bestwithchocolate.com

    brunch review: penn commons;

    January 6, 2017bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    After a boozy brunch for New Year’s Eve, what do you need?  That’s right–a boozy brunch for New Year’s Day!  Obviously.  Since both Tyler and I had some friends visiting for our New Year’s Eve party, we wanted to take them to a full out brunch and try a new place!  Penn Commons brunch was a brunch to rival Fuego’s!  You can read the review for that, but Fuego’s has since closed and it won’t do you much good.  Penn Commons might even surpass it in food. Let’s start off with location–Penn Commons is located in Chinatown, just a few…

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  • Chorizo Breakfast Pizza from Piola Brunch Review @ bestwithchocolate.com

    brunch review: piola;

    September 2, 2016bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    Here’s another brunch spot for you to try out: Piola!  The one we go to is the location in Arlington (an easy walk from the Rosslyn metro stop, FYI).  I’ve heard that there’s one in D.C. but have yet to try that location.  The only difference I’ve heard about is that the one in D.C. is bottomless brunch where as the Arlington location, because of VA liquor laws cannot technically do “bottomless”.  But Piola, and a lot of other restaurants, get around this by allowing you to add endless drinks from a select menu for $1 ea.  Which in some cases I actually…

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  • Mimosa Sunrise @ bestwithchocolate.com

    mimosa sunrise;

    May 15, 2016bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    So…I made this cocktail by accident!  You can thank my lazy Sunday.  The past few weeks have been a bit crazy, and even Saturday this weekend was crazy!  Fun crazy, but crazy nonetheless.  Friday we went to grab drinks before seeing Captain America!  It was good, and T and I had a nice walk back chatting about our thoughts about the movie!  And then Saturday, T went running (he’s training for a marathon) for 6 miles, and I actually got my butt to the gym.  Then we had to take Kenichi on a long walk to tire him out a bit…

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  • mimosa bar @ bestwithchocolate.com

    countdown to new year’s: mimosa bar;

    January 1, 2016bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    The mimosa bar for our New Year’s Eve Countdown Bash came out super cute!  I decided that four was the perfect number: four fruits, four juices, four champagnes! Champagne Now we decided to use Andre as the champagne.  It’s not classy, but if you’re going to mix with super sweet juices and mix the champagne, no need for the good stuff.  We did reserve a bottle of “good stuff” for the actual midnight toast though! For champagne varietals, we had: (1) Brut, (2) Extra Dry, (3) Spumante, and (4) Blush.  We also had some sparkling cider which is a perfect non-alcoholic varietal!…

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