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High Tea in Cubicle Land

How to brew your own tea at work.

and pancetta. All were satisfying, although I think, like Crispo, you can do better with starters (and some pastas) here. For dessert, of course we had to go with more fried spheres — the excellent zeppoles with Amaretto...

, go over to the Central West End (Maryland just west of Euclid) to Bar Italia and eat some of their absolutely wonderful cakes on the patio with a great cup of coffee and maybe an infused grappa. Also great for people watching!...

everything, I was a bit underwhelmed. The entire dish was swimming in some sort of sauce – the menu on the website describes it as "basil infused jus," but I didn’t detect any particular basil flavor. In addition to...

fun food. Anyway enough noise. We ate: Shark fin soup; A nice ocean infused cornstarch laden clear soup with clear threads of shark fin, ake’s, wood shrooms, shrimp. A bit bland to be honest. Black bean noodles; a noodle 1/2...

me feel like I’m drinking hot pudding. La Dolce V had nice balance. I’d recommend the ‘infused’ spice version because I did detect a little orange taste which was pleasant. I forgot that ‘infused’ is usually code for little...

Lilikoi 'a.k.a Passion Fruit cake is very common in Hawaii and other parts of the Pacific Rim. I make a Black Pearl Cake which features Ginger Simple Syrup poured over the darkest chocolate cake and a wasabi-infused ganache for...

, the server placed about 12 small dishes at the table. If this dish were to hearken back to any experience in my life, I would say my 11th grade chemistry class. Dishes, bowls, and plates of various sizes and containing various...

more fun to eat than tasty themselves. With the former, it was neat to crack the glassy bonbon in my mouth to flood my tongue with the saffron-infused oil, but ultimately it’s just oil on my tongue, albeit a quality olive oil...

ground beans. just in case i don’t feel like cleaning the bodum, a sphere infuser as well. i mostly drink rooibos at my desk and the coffee gets a good rotation.

Excellent thought! Thanks. There are 2 other candidate bottles on that site. One is a sphere and one is a squat cylinder. They have some hot stuff!

sticky rice (Thai), snow ice (finely shaved ice often infused with milk) often topped with things like mango, almond tofu, rice balls, grass jelly and condensed milk (Taiwan), bing su (Korean), and mochi, manju, yokan, kanten...

-setting at the Greenbrier’s Main Dining Room was set with 10 -12 pieces of heavy, engraved silverware. Trout came from the local streams. Beef Wellington was made with a lard infused flaky crust. And (real?) turtle soup...

. This is an eye-popping dish and I have NO idea how they did it. In the center of the plate is a golf-ball-sized sphere of coconut milk. The containing wall of the sphere, a gelatinous layer of coconut (think thick pudding skin)...

with an Amuse Bouche of three of their signature tail Spheres (chilled “gelee” versions of traditional tails), which were outstanding: The Mojito Sphere, with Rum, Cane Sugar and Mint was delicious and refreshing as...