Messy and Picky

Taking up the northwest corner of Reading Terminal Market is Beiler's Bakery, described on the Reading Terminal website as an "Amish bakery selling homemade baked goods." They bake breads, pies, cookies, sticky buns, donuts and other treats daily and they also sell an assortment of conventional bread on their easternmost endcap. This corner of the […]

It is no secret that we love Franklin Fountain. So, when we got the opportunity to have a free, breast-inspired dessert there, we jumped at the chance. We trekked over to the Bust Out! launch party at N. 3rd, but somewhere along our long walk, Picky lost a contact lens, which caused some trauma. We […]

The first time we decided to go to Naked Chocolate, the place was packed full of people with no place to sit down, so we decided to skip it. Our mistake! Naked Chocolate is not to be skipped, ever. We went back the next day and it was still packed, but we had the genius idea to take home some treats. They were so good that we went back again, the same day. And again the next…

We ended up at Ariana because we found ourselves quite hungry in Olde City on a Friday night, without reservations or boatloads of cash. After peeking into restaurant after restaurant, we glimsped some free tables at Ariana. Since neither Messy, Picky nor our dear friend LB, a restaurant aficionado, had ever had Afghani food, we […]

Before we went to Lovash, we had not had the best luck finding awesome Indian food in walking distance. We went on a cold weeknight, and hardly anyone else was there. We were promptly seated by an adorable (in Messy's opinion) waiter, one of two who provided excellent service throughout the meal. He put us […]

One day, out of the blue, we decided to have a post-holiday lunch at Caribou Café. It was a weekday, and the place was pretty much empty, but we got some good vibes when we walked in…

Even though Messy had previously visited Mixto for some seriously unremarkable appetizers and desserts, she was more than gung-ho when Picky invited her to Mixto for brunch. After all, you can't really judge a place by their overpriced chocolate cake if you haven't tried a full meal there…