Season 52

Season 52
It's in Westshore Mall, Tampa


They change menue 4 times a year!
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter. 
All Seasonal food...




The reason I was interested in this place, cause they use seasonal food.
We, human being is design to eat seasonal food to be healthy.
Summer food makes your body cooler, Winter food make your body worm.
Human body crave food which need to our body.


O! One more things, all the food is under 475 calories.
Yummy, Healthy, Low calorie.

Artichoke stuffed Shrimp

Tuna Dish

Seems like stuffing is big things recently.
Shrimp was super fresh, stuffing was light, not over killed the shrimps.
All vegetable is crispy and I can taste the freshness.
Tuna is so fresh, not fishy at all. 


We had little dessert cup things.
Every bite was just wonderful...


I was sooooo full... 




• Parking space: It's in mall, busy...
• Interior decor: Very Very nice. Modern and cozy. I wish I can live there.
• Service: Great, Perfect. Friendly, explains everything to you.
• Timing: Perfect, very smooth. Drink to dessert, nice move.
• Menue: Small, cause its seasonal!
• Presentation: good.
• Taste: No complaining at all. All just fresh, light, taste main ingredient very well.
• Price: Little high but totally worth it.
• Over all: 9 (10 is 100%)

A Corner of England

A Corner of Enland


Little cute place to enjoy a pot of tea...


6297 Central Ave. St Petersburg Fl. 33710
727-345-5353

I signed up for Groupon, finally...
It's just awesome to me, cause I eat out a lot. 
Plus it's good to try new places, just because I have Groupon!


Groupon gave me 50% off to try A Corner of England.
I was thinking about try this place before anyway, so it was happy moment when I find out about 50% off.


They have different kind of organic tea, they sell tea leaves, too.
Main reason i wanted to try, because of High Tea.
Since when I was little, I always wanted to try English afternoon tea time thing...
They have fancy big hats, little fuzzy hats, and gloves etc... 


High Tea comes with little finger foods. Sandwiches, pastries, soup, Quiche, etc.


It was cute experience over all.


I recommend to do Baby shower, cute b-day party with girlfriends, or for little girls.






• Parking space: enough
• Interior decor: Kinda all over the place, but I see where they going for.
• Service: OK, it's family and cozy place/
• Timing: OK, enough time to enjoy tea
• Menue: Small, but I think most of people order High Tea anyway
• Presentation: Cute!
• Taste: Good. Pastries are great. Sausage rolls flakiness is great...
• Price: Little high for straight price, but we had 50% Groupon, so it's all gooood.
• Over all: 7 (10 is 100%)

St Pete Brasserie

St Pete Brasserie


Casual european brasserie.
Not super formal or super casual. Not too expensive or not too cheap.
Decor is contemporary and casual. Very clean looking.
I like people there, too.


We went there like 6:00pm, it was no waiting, but I will recommend to make reservation.
Maybe a year ago, I saw on Bay News 9 about this place, and I wanted to go for a while.


Next door to this place is 539 Lounge. It's a bar. I never been there, but it's classy and great for date.


This is what we ate.
I forgot to take pic, but there is awesome french onion soup.
Comes with big bowl. mmmmmm so good.




Sea bass with butter sauce. 
Nice and light. Well cooked.

Lamb with couscous. 
Sooooo tender, I will recommend this for everyone. 

Cream Brule.

Chocolate, vanilla, espresso.

• Parking space: This is tough one, downtown is always hard. but garage is always available.
• Interior decor: Love it! romantic, great for date
• Service: Decent
• Timing: good service of timing. they care for good service
• Menue: like it. small, and always something to eat.
• Presentation: Great. They definitely put thought to it.
• Taste: I have no complain. Just sensitively good.
• Price: average for this kind of dining.
• Over all: 9 (out of 10)

Soba Noodle - Jap cooking

I just got noodle bowl!
I was looking for right size and shape for a while.
So, I had to cook some asian noodle dish.
It's actually small serving bowl. I found in Target.

Soba Noodle 








Soba = Buckwheat flour


Straight from Japan! I smuggle all types of food from Japan when I go there.
When my family come here, they bring me suits case full of food and stuffs.




I made with dashi and soy sauce soup, scallion, daikon, ginger, and egg.


Simple
Definitely my comfort food...




When I was high school in Japan, We took school trip to Nagano.
We had soba making class from scratch.
What we have to watch out is, some people are allergic to soba.


If you have chance to eat soba at japanese restaurant, try it!
Very light healthy food.

Quick Easy Banana Desert

We buy banana every week to bring to work to snack on.
I love little green banana. I don't eat brown banana. 


oh, no. I have many banana that brown, I do not like to wast any of my food!
What I'm gonna do is...


Make


Banana milk shake
Eat with yogurt
Banana bread
or
This fabulous dessert...

Banana with ice cream




















1. warm fry pan and melt butter (1/3 of stick)
2. add brown sugar (2 spoon) and turn heat to medium
3. add rum little bit (any kind is fine, I used Chambord )
4. add cinnamon and nutmeg if you have
5. cut 2 bananas and add to this fabulous liquid, stir around gently
6. serve with vanilla ice cream (you can put on top of pancake)


fast and easy! only one pan to cook.
try at home.


Yummyyyy~~~!

The Frog Pond

Egg Benedict lover!
10+ different kind of egg benedict.


The Frog Pond
7390 Gulf Boulevard, St. Petersburg, FL 33706(727) 363-7205 ‎

16909 Gulf Blvd
North Redington Beach, FL 33708

(727) 392-4117

I went there because they have all different kinds of egg benedict!
As a egg benedict lover, I needed to try.


As soon as I opened the door, they took me to booth.
and not even 10 seconds later, coffee was served. FAST!
I had massive headache from not taking any caffein. (I must drink coffee before 10am!!)
so, fast coffee service was great!
Coffee boy was refilling cup all the time. No time to be less than half cup!


Egg Benedict, it was ok...
Hollandaise Sauce was disappointing to me. Cause it was too vinegary.
Creamy and nice, but vinegar was overwhelming.
Egg was nicely done, English muffin was crunchy, but not too crunchy.
Home fries were decent too.
But sauce through me off.


I'm not sure, everyday is like this, but I won't order egg benedict anymore.
Seems like, deep pan dish and omelet is popular item, so I will order that instead.


I got little disappointed, but I will give one more chance with different dish.





• Parking space: good, no problem parking in busy time.
• Interior decor: cute! Frog decoration!
• Service: fast
• Timing: fast, coffee is always filled
• Menue: easy. different kinds of food to pick from
• Presentation: OK nothing special
• Taste: hollandaise sauce is too vinegary
• Price: average
• Over all: 6 (out of 10)

Pete & Shorty's Tavern

Burger and Beer spot...
But, my favorite thing to eat in here is, Turkey Ruben.
Pete & Shorty's Tavern

When I just came to Florida, I didn't know where to eat good food around my neighbor.
I went to watch my friend play soccer. After the game, whole team went to celebrate the victory. It was Pete and Shorty. Everybody ordered mini-burgers. (slider)
I order turkey ruben. Cause I never had before.


Before I moved to florida, I lived in Vermont.
Food in north and south is different. Made me re-think the US is big country.


First time ruben....!
it was soooo good!!! this special sauce was dripping, crispy rye bread is earthy, swiss cheese is melting, good turkey and warm sour kraut. Whole sandwich is little sour, but this special sauce made everything come together.
Simple grilled sandwich, but whole combination of what they picked for ingredients are perfect.


I tried mini-burger, too. It's good. But I always go back to this turkey ruben.
I ate turkey ruben at different places, cause I had such a great first ruben.
BUT, this is still #1 Ruben to me.

$1 for mini-burger.










O, they have good fries, too. I like skinny crunchy fries.