GT Cupcakes coming to New York City
Opening Soon: Georgetown Cupcakes will be opening this winter
on Mercer Street.
The sister-owned company from TLC’s reality TV show, D.C. Cupcakes, will be filming the opening process of their 1st New York City location as the kick-off episode for their new season
Irving Farm Coffee Company Presents The Capucas Microlots Cupping on Saturday, November 12th
Events: Host at The Irving Farm Barista Training Lab on 27 W 20th St, Ste 1100, New York.
Click here for more info
Snacks and mini-desserts become more appealing
Mini-Desserts are now trending.
In light of consumer spending being a bit more frugal and the need for small snacks, Baskin Robbins plans to launch a new product called Cake Bites in addition to other companies such as Starbucks and Pillsbury who seek to get in on the newest trend
The New York Chocolate Show: November 10th – 13th
Events: Chocolate tastings from various chocolatiers at your fingertips throughout the weekend at The Metropolitan Pavilion on 125 W. 18th Street.
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Plenty Bakery offers traditional recipes to The Upper East Side
Openings: Plenty Bakery opens on the Upper East Side at 3rd Avenue and E 82nd Street.
Catering to the traditions of her father and grandmother’s recipes, owner, Jessica Weiss will be serving up homey cakes, rugelach and a signature crumb cake
Starbucks plans to introduce juice bars in coffee shops
Starubucks’ CEO, Howard Schultz, wants to combine juices and coffee into one space.
Grab-n-go pressed juices will be served along with handcrafted coffee beverages in the next new venture for Howard Schultz as he recently hired Yohana Bencosme from Liquiteria to train staff members in Seattle on how to “juice” like a pro
https://paigepapers.com/2011/10/13/starbucksmixescoffeewithjuicebar/
Upper West Side is keeping a close eye on food trucks
The line at Frites 'N' Meats. Photo by Julia Shapiro of http://www.dnainfo.com.
New York City’s Community Board 7 plans to closely monitor the activity of food trucks.
Since the recent enforcement of laws to move food trucks out of the Upper East Side and Midtown area, the Upper West Side is now experiencing more complaints due to parked trucks
https://paigepapers.com/2011/10/13/foodtrucksmonitoredinuws/
City Harvest creates new app for participating restaurants that
help fight hunger
City Harvest releases an app that allows people to look up city restaurants that donate to the organization.
Next week Tuesday, October 18th, City Harvest launches an app called “Great Food, Good Hearts” that will allow patrons to look up restaurants and make reservations via OpenTable to combat hunger
in New York City
Specialty Food Magazine October 2011 Food Trends
Men are the big shoppers, seaweed is the new secret “sauce”, attention to portion sizes and more…
https://paigepapers.com/2011/10/12/specialtyfoodtrendsoct2011/
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