E tutto chi?
Trip Start
Aug 28, 2007
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Trip End
Dec 16, 2007
Florence,
Italy
Friday, September 21, 2007
I didn't know there were so many ways to mix chocolate and liquor/alcohol! Bur, apparently there is! Kara, Kelly and Arod had a coffee, hazelnut and chocolate creme (thick) drink that was served hot (it also had rum in it - a lot). Dana had an espresso with amaretto and a spoon made of chocolate. Erin has to be different and get a Tequila Sunrise. I chose to buy the fratte (milkshake) called "e tutto chi?", it had: chocolate ice cream, milk, hazelnut, southern comfort and some other citrus flavored rum, it was sooo good (as long as I sipped it slowly, stirred it often, and sucked it up fast at the bottom). Kelly, Dana, and Arod all ordered crepes
Here's what everyone ordered
. In case you don't know, crepes are like a very thin pancake (about 1/16" if made well - which these were). Kelly ordered one with chocolate ice cream and dark chocolate chunks; Dana had a vanilla ice cream with with white chocolate chucks; and ARod had one with vanilla ice cream and strawberries. Now normally crepes are laid out flat on a plate and if you get ice cream it's just scooped on top, but this place served it so different! They lay the crepe flat on the plate, scoop a heaping pile of ice cream on it, pour amaretto on it, and pull the sides of the crepe (a crepe is larger than a dinner plate), swirled/twisted the edges together like you do a bread bag, tucked the edges together and stuck two wooden sticks into the top of the large looking sack. Oh, and most importantly, they drenched it with amaretto again so that the crepe soaks up the pool of amaretto at the bottom. Erin had a chocolate cake (a slice) and Kara chose 4 different pieces of chocolate (milk chocolate, dark chocolate, a chocolate truffle, a truffle covered in espresso dust, and a chocolate "slate" with nuts, pistachios, hazelnut, and almonds on top). I got a little oval cake with hazel nut shell, vanilla moose, chocolate bottom (cake type), adorned with slivers of white chocolate lining the sides and a sliver of chocolate with a hazelnut on top.This place was simply amazing! If you go to Florence you must go to Hemingway's! Okay, even though I hadn't eaten dinner or anything since 11:20 this morning until the chocolate place, i still feel fat. Now it's off to bed. I have to be at Piazza Pitti for a Villas and Gardens field trip into the Boboli Gardens! I'll be sure to take tons of pictures and write you about it tomorrow! Later at 3:00 we go on another field trip to the Certosa del Galluzzo for Arch Context!
Buena notte! (good night)
A domani! (see you tomorrow)
Comments
Chocolate Heaven
I'm from KMM's board. I would be in heaven in Hemmingway's! Never leave the place! Thanks for the chocolate tour, I hope you are having the time of your life, you deserve it.