Winter Hot Drinks! All homemade of course

 Matcha Latte

We make a sirup that we add to steamed milk.

Matcha is a japanese fine powdered green tea, high quality, initially used for the traditional tea ceremony. Nowadays, it's a very popular ingredient for cakes, drinks, sweets, ice creams, even noodles. 

The taste is slightly bitter, but very softened by the milk. We decided to minimise the amount of sugar for the sirup. At last but not least, our matcha is organic.

 

 Chai Latte

We cook a combination of spices, honey, brown sugar, and black tea to obtain our homemade chai base. We just add hot milk when you need it.
 

Le chocolat à l'ancienne

(old fashioned french hot chocolate)

On demand we prepare your hot chocolate. 
It's "just" real chocolate in you cup: tasty, creamy, soft and warm. You'll have your little milk pitcher so you'll be able to adjust the concentration of chocolate drink you wanna have. 
And it last as long as you got milk right?
The most comfy drink of the winter.

Remember APEROS in 2013!

 

       Summer 2013, we started specials events around APERO! Apero is a french tradition of having drinks and apetizers after work, before dinner. It's a very relaxing moment with collegues or friends around a glass of wine, kir or Pastis. Of course, it comes with some salty treats such as gherkins, crisps, olives, tapenade, bread etc... 

To make it even funnier, we always added a little extra feature. 

Here are our souvenirs. 

Thank you to all participants and guests!

 

The clothing swap was opened to anyone. For free, we all found nice new outfits! We'll definitely do that again.

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For this evening, Julie made around 20 dishes with 3 vegetables per plate. She also made a veggie option. Her Légumes Farçis were excellent, felt so homey and nostalgic!
What are Légumes Farçis by the way?
It's stuffed vegetables, usually tomatoes, peppers or eggplants (zucchinis too). The stuffing is made out of meet (beef / porc) and bread, onions and more. You bake them in the oven and enjoy them in summer.
For now, we're still looking for more pictures of the event...

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Pumpkin x Chanterelle Quiche

Pumpkin x Chanterelle Mini-Quiche

Mani's bread

Christian's bread

For the occasion, we baked autumnal quiches.

We also had the pleasant surprise to taste delicious homemade bread from Christian and Mani.

Again, anybody could come and sell their creations for free. Claude Cadi is our official illustrator (he made our menu /  logo) and shows his silkscreens on the wall.

We're big fans of Cúze's porcelains that you can find on his page. 

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Justine is a new comer in Berlin, she is initially from Paris where she worked in a restaurant. She offered us to make a dinner. She was helped by her faithfull partner. Great team!

Menu was butternut soup with black chorizo topping and beef cheecks in wine with carrots and agrumes, served with celeriac purée. Beautiful and delicious! When everyone has gone, we had our meal, sharing the last pieces of beef. Such a reward.


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Japanese Organic Teas in the House!

GENMAICHA

Green tea mixed with roasted brown rice. Color of the tea is light yellow and taste fresh with a nut-like flavor.

HOJICHA

This green tea is roasted (kind of the same process as coffee) and you'll appreciate its toasty, caramel-like flavor. You can drink it anytime, as it has a low level of caffeine.

Danke NAOKI!

Mrs E's friends, Aki and Naoki visited her last week from Tokyo.
Naoki makes wallets, clothing, accessories with leather. All handmade of course.
How surprised we were when he showed up with these beautiful red and green leather small wallet with the Two and Two logo!
God! Such a touching present.

Naoki, we'll cherish your wallet forever!

If you want to see more of his work and his brand, EAST SIDE KUSTOM LEATHERS check out his website:
http://eskl.exblog.jp/

Japanese Stationery baby!

UNI JETSTREAM: simply best ballpoint pen of the universe.

Gel technology, non dry, smooth lines, long lasting, fine / medium / thick tips available. 

Beautiful OHTO mechanical pencil. Looks like a pencil, but is way more sustainable with detailed design.

Delicate colors marker pen by MILDLINER: double pens with thick or precise pin. Just enjoy those slightly fluorescent or pastel colors.

The MONO erasers! A classic from Japan! Just appreciate the modernity of the round eraser: designed as a mechanical pencil.

OLFA TOUCH-KNIFE cutter. Not a gadget, real tool for precise cutting work. Small and practical.

Another classic: TOMBOW pencils. Get one or the whole box. Tombow means dragonfly.

The perfect passport case.

 Small version, keep your smartphone in the case, you'd be still able to use it thought the protection.

STORAGE.IT by MARK'S is becoming a classic too. Never met so usefull notebook. First, paper is great quality, then, you have plenty of storage tricks. Ideal for travelling, messy/carefull person, collectors, compulsive writers etc...

RaKuGaKi Cho small notebook: one of our favorite stationery in the shop. Super quality paper, original design and little funny sentences pop in through the pages. Only few left, and out of stock in Japan.

Very nostalgic MAGIC PEN. Every kid is Japan use those marker pens! Plenty of colors, and unusual one.

YES, there is more at the shop!