cupcakes on pitt, macchiato, gelatomassi, serendipity

5 August 2006, 19:29

oh how i love random days off in the middle of the week! watching the suits scurry around the city like worker ants on a mission… we were on a different mission- a mission to eat!
first stop Cupcakes on Pitt (Shop 2, 323 Pitt St, Sydney)

Would you believe ive never been here before? Multiple posts from GrabYourFork, Raging Yoghurt, and the Food Palate made me positively green with cupcake icing envy but at last at looong last its my turn!


We bought 5 for $17.50 and chose peppermint, passionfruit, jaffa, lemon meringue and honeycomb. So far we’ve onli eaten the peppermint and lemon meringue and i have mixed feelings about them. The lemon meringue looked so pretty but it had a realli weird raw egg white taste and smell but the cakey bit was ok buttery and not too dense. how pretty are they! i love well decorated cupcakes that arent too fancy that you dont want to eat them

With our pretty cupcakes sitting comfy in their box we crossed the street to Macchiato (338 Pitt Street, Sydney). Normally the first thing i do is to have a look at desserts but i was pretty hungry and straightaway ordered the margherita ($15.90) with extra boccocini ($1.50)

ooh look at those lumps of cheesey goodness oh yes it was worth that extra $1.50 for sure! the base is thin crust but not crispy which was good because i prefer a more chewable pizza than biscuit and it could have done with more oregano but other than that its the best margherita

noods ordered the NZ mussels with linguine ($21)

from previous experience the mussels are the onli things worth eating if its paired with pasta but this time noods loved the pasta more than the mussels ‘im a BIG fan of the pasta’ heh mussels were good tho and presentation was preety

feeling extremely full i was hitting myself when i saw the dessert menu and saw apple and custard pizza! and chocolate and strawberries ravioli! argh but no matter we will return!

On to icecream! Pit stop at Gelatomassi (262 King Street, Newtown)

Gelatomassi has THE best gelato in sydney!


my favourite gelato there is the watermelon but they dont make it very often so i settled on a scoop of lychee and a scoop of pistachio

and then Serendipity (333-339 Enmore Rd, Marickville)

Have you been to Passionflower? the sexy icecream restaurant with flavours such as black sesame, durian and sticky rice? Serendipity is a family run business that supplys their icecream and is OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! theyre open mon-fri 9-5 and sat 10am-1pm so gogogogogooooo!


one scoop of icecream at passionflower is about $3.60 but here one TUB is onli $5! dudeeeee thats a whole lot of scoops! we bought 6 tubs- black sesame, sticky rice, chocolate fudge, lemon line bitters, guava and lime sorbet

1. seriously, that was one of the best pastas ive ever had…and i dun usually like tomato based pastas…or maybe i was just hungry…
   
   heh and how long you reckon it’ll take you to eat all that icecream?

   — noods    Aug 5, 09:07 PM    #
   
   

2. Mussels? Bocconcini? Urrrgh – how is it that you blog about so many of my favourite foods?

   6 tubs of ice-cream? Woah…can I have some? ^_

   — Ellie    Aug 6, 01:50 AM    #
   
   

3. Wow. Now that is some kinda fooding extravaganza! I’m totally green with envy now!

   — helen    Aug 6, 02:19 PM    #
   
   

4. cool, I have been looking for guava ice cream. I had no idea that seredipity made them. Thanks!

   — jenjen    Aug 7, 11:55 AM    #
   
   

5. u serious? they supply passionflower? must go there one day .. passionflower is so overpriced.. how big is each tub?

   — Lisa    Aug 8, 01:22 AM    #
   
   

6. Hi! I`ve created a blog for my recipes & I`ve put your link there instead, just so you know :-)
   
   Take care!

   — Vintage wine    Aug 9, 04:57 AM    #
   
   

7. I seriously think you should be a tour guide for a foodie trip

   — tian    Aug 9, 12:10 PM    #
   
   

8. Those cupcakes are not only on Pitt they are the pits! I bought 12 for a party and they all tasted the same and the icing was like moch cream yech.

   Babycakes at Summer Hill are much better. :)

   Serendipity are just down the road – wonderful ice-cream!

   cheers Belinda.

   — belinda    Aug 10, 12:39 AM    #
   
   

9. noods: all icecream will be demolished by today i believe… mmm
   
   ellie: hehe i LOOOOOVE boccocini! can never have enough! kinda like fresh parmesan cheese mmm ooh and camembert cheese mmmmmm
   
   helen: dude we should so have a dessert tour! ooooh icecream chocolate cakey goodness…
   
   jenjen: no worries dude it is quite refreshing but i think i still like pink grapefruit better but serendipity dont sell that to public
   
   lisa: i agree passionflower can be a bit of a ripoff! one tub is 500ml so its becos at onli $5 each you can get multiple tubs hehe
   
   tian: no worries dude ill change mine too! also i cant comment! hmm guess ill sign up to blogger
   
   tian: hehe would you come?
   
   belinda: hullo i agree i was a bit disapointed with the overall taste. but they looked so pretty =( i must try babycakes soon!

   — chocolatesuze    Aug 10, 07:11 PM    #