Miss Lily's, New York

This review has really been a long time coming...sorry guys!

I'd heard about Miss Lily's restaurant for a while; a native New Yorker had raved about it and I had seen it in a few online publications, but perhaps most ironically it featured in an email that I'd received during my visit from the airline I had flown with. Despite all this I was still quite sceptical, as far as I'm concerned Caribbean cuisine is often at its best when it's from a low-key local shop. Miss Lily's however manages to bring an authentic taste of Jamaica to lower Manhattan...successfully!

New York! New York! - Photo Diary

Finally the last instalment of this year's holiday photos...

New York was fun as usual, but this time it felt quite different. I met some really cool people and had a great time, although for the first time in my life I departed from JFK airport actually feeling ready to go home instead of crying at thought of having to leave the city!

Piece Of Velvet: Nobody Does Velvet Cake Like This!

Anyone who knows me even the slightest will know that I love cake: cupcakes, rum cake, birthday cake- you name it I adore it! So it comes as no surprise that at the top of my to-do list when I arrived in New York City was to get a slice (or two) of Red Velvet Cake...

A couple of years ago I when I was in the city I was introduced to what I thought was the greatest red velvet cake ever from an infamous bakery in Brooklyn; I told anyone who would listen to visit and see for themselves just how good it tasted. So I'm sure that you can imagine my excitement when I heard about the recently opened Piece of Velvet located at the original 708 Fulton Street address where the previous bakery resided.

Photo Credit: Piece of Velvet Facebook

My friend and I featured on the Instagram page for the second time lol!