Spill Some Tea

Sunday was another beautiful day so I decided to walk home from yoga class. On the way, I dropped into a shop on College St. called Dish. The motto of this long, narrow business is "cook. eat. shop." The back half of the building was a space for cooking classes (and eating your creations after). It is enclosed from the rest of the shop by clear glass doors. Today, it looked like they were making pasta.

The rest of the space sold cooking tools, prepared frozen food, jams, condiments, and other small perishables. There was a large display case for takeaway food. Looking over my choices, I selected a veggie burrito ($9.50) and a slice of apple bread ($2.50). The burrito was heated up and delivered to the communal dining table with a few sweet potato chips. It was good enough: slightly tangy sour cream, soft beans, buttery avocado. The only misstep was the inclusion of arugula. Its bright, grassy flavour did not blend in with the other ingredients.

The apple bread was disappointing. It was too sweet, even beyond the coating of icing on the crust. Most would find it normal, but I find store desserts usually overpower you with sugar and not highlighting other flavours. In this case, I could barely detect any apple at all.