It's that wonderful time of year again- the hot chocolate festival presented by CityFood Magazine! If you've read my blog before, you'll know my favourite drink is hot chocolate, and I took advantage of the festival last year. This year, I'm definitely just as excited as ever... Unlike last year, I've decided to do a weekly round-up on here so that you have a better chance of trying any hot chocolates that you're interested in (unless their availability dates have passed, of course.) You can find the complete list of offerings here. First up on the list! I...

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Apologies for yet another long-delayed post! Here is the second part to my Hot Chocolate Festival adventures. You can find part one here if you haven't read it yet :) Must post these all now as the 2015 Hot Choc Festival starts this Saturday! I was certainly feeling more pressed for time as January ended- many of the hot chocolates in February were limited to one week only and I had to rush to try as many as possible. I returned to Bel Café to try their Banana Split hot chocolate. As I arrived 10 minutes before they...

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Hope everyone's new year has started off well- and that resolutions haven't been broken already ;) 2015 has been pretty good to me so far- I won tickets to see Paddington thanks to Stephanie at How to Survive Life in the Suburbs! (I have the most horrid luck when it comes to contests, so this was such a wonderful surprise.) This little Paddington stuffie was part of the prize, and I've been bringing him along everywhere I go :) The movie truly was adorable- although I'm apparently still at an age where children's movies can make me cry...

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You may find this hard to believe as I've called myself an ice cream aficionado so many times it might as well be my given name, but until last month, I'd never gone to Earnest Ice Cream before. I've wanted to since it opened, and I drive past it all the time....but somehow........I've just never been. Well, obviously this was a situation that had to be rectified. You see, on the day that Cybil & I went to Le Marché St. George, I'd planned on stopping by, but Cybil said it was too cold for ice cream (It's...

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