Zelicious Treats and Gifts opened in the Shops of Grand Avenue, 275 W. Wisconsin Ave. The shop specializes in gourmet, pre-packaged chocolates, popcorn, old fashioned candy and quirky items like chocolate-dipped Pringles and Doritos.
Goody Gourmets, a specialty popcorn and chocolate at 4425 N. Oakland Ave., has an old-timey, small-town flavor, from the staff friendliness to the small size to the number of repeat customers.
Chocolates, fashionable iPhone accessories, zombies and salon services - what do these things all have in common? They're all things we love this week at OnMilwaukee.com!
Sweettrio is a Grafton shop specializing in the sweet trio of chocolate, caramel apples and gelato. Although most of its business is corporate gift packages and Internet shipping, owners Christine Steeno and Nedra Clague also provide a fun, family-friendly store in which to shop.
The very word conjures images of joy, intimacy and romance. Fondue! Say it like "fun do" or even "do fun." The simplicity of fondue is matched by the joy of sharing food and experience. Sandy D'Amato owns Sanford and he gave me some hints on how to make a great fondue.
Considering I need to drop some pounds, maybe I shouldn’t have been searching so hard. Maybe I should have just left well enough alone. But, this has haunted me for too long and I had to act on it. So the search continued. The memory beckoned me like the Sirens’s song calling the Argo...
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Chocolate... healthy?!? Really?! Chocolate and cocoa offer amazing health benefits: derived from plants, chocolate/cocoa is rich in antioxidants, similar to dark vegetables and fruit (did you know that one serving of dark chocolate has more antioxidant capacity than...
It all started with a tweet.
@mke_brunch (a.k.a. Mr. Brunch) declared that he was eating cookies in bed. Next thing we knew, we were meeting up at AJ Bombers for a Girl Scout cookie hook-up.
We promised Chris we'd come up with a clever way to use the 10 delicious Tagalong cookies he gav...
INGREDIENTS: 12 dark semi-sweet chocolate chips 1 tablespoon of instant coffee 1 tablespoon of Port wine 1/2 cup of butter 3/4 cup of sugar 5 eggs DIRECTIONS In a double boiler add the chocolate and butter. Once butter and chocolate are fully melted add the coffee and mix it very well with a woo...
I often frequent Coquette Cafe for lunch working down in Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward, but I have never been there for dinner... until last weekend. Nice!There were just two of us and at 6:30p on a Friday night, they couldn't seat us until 8:15, but I called ahead so it all worked out.Th...