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Happy Hour and Dessert in Capitol Hill

  Happy Hour Street Tacos with Carne Asada and a Miami Vice from Poquitos.  Poquitos is located in Capitol Hill and they're serving up authentic Mexican cuisine and cocktails. Their happy hour deal is a good one- during Ocho hour, everything on the happy hour menu is just $8! I went with a Miami Vice, a classic Pina Colada with Strawberry. This blended cocktail was so fruity and delicious. To eat I had two Carne Asada Street Tacos and a Birria Poquitos Burrito. The Burrito was small and served with a side of Consommé sauce. Both food items were tasty and satisfying.  My husband also had some Street Tacos and a Margarita from the happy hour menu. My sons had a Cheese Quesadilla and beans and rice. Everyone enjoyed their dinner. I first visited Poquitos in 2012, also for happy hour, and I remembered liking it then, too. It was time for a meal there again.  For dessert, we walked about ten minutes west to  Voodoo Doughnut . The Seattle location opened late last ye...

Sweet Las Vegas

I was rewarded with many options for getting my sweet on in Vegas.  From cupcakes to chocolate fountains.  To huge chocolate stores and famous French bakeries and local chocolate shops, I had my pick-and that was just in between meals.  Scroll down and see for yourself what Las Vegas has to offer to satisfy the sweet tooth. 
Sprinkles Cupcakes has a location in Vegas near the High Roller, on the Promenade.   Sprinkles was the very first cupcake shop.  There's nothing like an original!  

A cupcake ATM in front of the store shoots out a cupcake of your choice.





A Red Velvet and white cake with chocolate frosting were my picks from Sprinkles.



The tallest chocolate fountain in the world is at Jean Phillipe Patisserie at the Bellagio.   



There's a huge Hershey's store at New York New York now and it was a real treat to walk around and see chocolate everywhere. 

Although I didn't get any desserts, all of the cookies, cupcakes, cannoli's, and more looked incredible.   












Thomas Keller's Bouchon inside the Venetian hotel has French Macarons I'm still dreaming about.  The Salted Caramel Macaron was so good I ate it while I walked around and gawked at all the Italian touches in the hotel.


The Salted Caramel Macaron had a thick later of salted caramel in between the two layers instead of the usual buttercream filling.  It was amazingly tasty and the macaron itself was twice the size of the usual macaron.  

Ethel M's Chocolates is a Las Vegas chocolate company.  I couldn't resist buying two of their liquor filled chocolates.  We got a Agave Tequila chocolate and one with rum.  My tequila one was delicious and strong, almost like taking a shot.  I'll dig that.   


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