Trattoria il Panino - North end'a best

The North End. One of my favourite areas in Boston, you instantly feel like you're in Italy with the narrow lanes and Roman Catholic Churches and architecture. generations of Italians have lived and worked here.

The restaurants in this area are a mix of mom and pop dark dining to fancy Italian places. I haven't explored a lot, but since Zj is visiting and she had a craving for ravioli so it only seemed right to bring her here (plus we had the harbour to visit.)

After walking around The area we went searching for the right restaurant: needed to find something under $20 but good and had ravioli on the menu. And after some search we found it. I rarely go into restaurants without doing a ton of research, but ever since ness pulled out (yes I'm still upset about it) haven't had a lot of choice.

And boy was this the right choice. We ordered lobster ravioli in creamy sauce and ricotta ravioli in tomato sauce.

Those of you who know my taste buds, I'm not huge on tomato sauces, they usually taste generic and bland. Ummm, this was the opposite, SO AMAZING. 

The ricotta was fresh, BUT THE SAUCE. oh gosh I want to go back!

The lobster ravioli was super as well, creamy and rich ! 

The portions were huge! I loved the presentation- I love eating out of pans!

Me and Zj devoured as much as we could and had some ravioli left over 

This has been one of my favourite meals ever! Must try for anyone in Boston! (Except my friend Nusha who lives in Italy and refuses to eat Italian food anymore )

Haru Boston

end Zj is in town!! While hubby is work shopping at Harvard, we went around giggling around the city. Lunch was at Haru, I wanted to show her American sushi!

Here are some shots of my two rolls. The rolls were pretty good, price was average, however my main put off was the spicy mayo- it was tomato ketchup mayoish - no spice.

They did give us the sauces for free and our service was good (a teensy slowish) and warm.

We had the spicy tuna covered in salmon and jalapeño (good)and another full fried roll (so so)

Overall I guve it 3.5/5 for service and location and freshness of fish.

Xinh Xinh cafe

So this place gets the highest rating on yelp for Pho (yes ever since Ness got shut down after OpenTable bought it out, I've had to resort to yelp) so I thought id try it out.

So my new roommate and I grabbed a bite and it was pretty good.

The rolls were fresh and the broth was good.

Overall if you're in Chinatown and want Pho you can hop in. However it's not as good as Le's in Alston. I give it a 3.5/5

Easter Eggs

Some days are harder than others. Ever since I started the #100happydays challenge it has made me realise every day has its blessings, usually multiple. In the midst of a busy weekend, I was home for a couple of hours to take a quick nap and sandwich and I caught my roommate Hallie making these beautiful creations.

I love how everyone has their own tradition, Hallie's mom was always into egg decorating and thus has passed on to Hallie. I joined in to make one (i did a simple green, always drawn to my flag colours you could say.)

Here are some of her and her friends' beauties <3 p="">

 That plain greenish one is mine. It later ended up as a deem bhorta for my dinner, hehe.

and my lovely roommate with her creations.














Aah Life, I find new things to love every day <3 br="" nbsp=""> And here is some music :D Till next time!