you're invited to my tarty

i have a penchant for baked goods and puns, so when i was in dublin i made my travel companion march all over temple bar looking for a little cafe called the queen of tarts. my big fat THEENTIRETYOFEUROPEINONEBOOKHOWCONVENIENT travel guide told me to, and while i was in europe i was really into highlighting everything that my travel guide told me to do and actually did, so now if you borrow my book (i really dont know why you would, seeing as how it's the 2006 edition, but if you do, for some reason, borrow it) you can see that i went almost everywhere in paris that it told me to, and i also went to all the places that served word play with their pastries.

so queen of tarts was very cute and i think i had an apple scone and perhaps a cappuccino. and when i was in soho visiting "lindsay" at her job today, and she told me to go to a little place around the corner called once upon a tart, i said great! another whimsically punny bakery! in the city!

















it took me a minute to realize that once upon a tart is not actually a pun at all, and that while i would be willing to be queen of a court of tarts (pies, not sluts), i hope i never find myself actually upon a tart, because it would get squished and afterward i most likely would not be able to eat it.

that being said, however, my mozzarella sandwich with artichoke and roast tomatoes was a tasty little lunchie (even though I WANTED THE ROAST TURKEY WITH BRIE AND CRANBERRIES why were they out why were they out!) and there were lots of scones with flavors that sounded intriguing and i will most definitely go back to try and desert-y tarts that looked like i would like them if i were a dessert person. i am not.

however, "artesia," who shares my penchant for all things savory, so please pass the salt, proposed a difficult question to me the other day: would you rather everything be too sweet or too salty? this is very hard for me to stomach, but i think i have to go with too sweet, because i would rather eat a spoonful of sugar than a spoonful of salt. it does, after all, help the medicine go down.

what what what would YOU do?