Desserts in Greece
So this date was done last week and for all those that think you are just to busy to find the time to do a daily date night, please read on! We spent the last 9 days in Thessaloniki Greece on a mission trip with the amazing A21 Campaign Another story for another time but it was a life changing trip! Anyway, every night the teams came together for dinner and of course there was always an amazing dessert. Our date night plan was to choose a few desserts and decide which one was the best, so it really didn't leave us much options. Also in most of the European countries dinner is much later in the evening like 9-10 pm, so even if we wanted to go get extra desserts it was much too late and the places were closed.
Except for one evening, we had a chance to get dinner on our own with the team and we actually went to TGI Fridays ( I know, but it was the only place that would take credit cards). We got some desserts to-go and went back to the hotel to have date night. Honestly compared to all the amazing Greek desserts that we had all week it was nothing to but it was good non the less.
As luck would have it, Jonathan was talking to one of the A21 Greece Team members(shout out to Phil for sending us there) at our last meal together with the team and he mentioned this amazing little dessert place that he referred to as a museum of desserts! Well of course a map was drawn on a napkin and the plan was set. So later in the evening we had some down time on our own and we had such a late lunch (5pm) that we really weren't hungry for dinner but desserts sounded fantastic.
So we grabbed Dee Dee, I mean you really can't leave anyone behind for this excursion, and off we went to brave the streets of Greece alone in hopes of fantastic desserts..... and we were not disappointed. Pictures do not do it justice but it was just amazing, so amazing that we saw these two older Russian women looking in the window and one was so intent on the desserts that she smacked right into the window pane. Of course she laughed it off and came in to get her desserts right away! So we started to pick, and I just couldn't pick one piece for each of us so we ended up with four...I mean think of the baby right!?! :) So we boxed up our desserts and went home to see if they were as beautiful on the inside as they were on the outside.
We were not disappointed. Jonathan's favorite was the white chocolate birds nest and mine was the lemon pie. But lets be honest, there wasn't a scrap of food left in those boxes when we were done! Great date night!
Jonathan Says: So Mia alreay explained that we were out of the country and short on available time for a date night due to our crazy packed mission trip schedule. We grabbed some desserts from a TGI-Fridays one night but it left us both feelings like we could have done better I think. It just so happens that at our last meal together with the Greece team that their fearless leader Phil mentions to me this bakery and dessert place called Ble and says it's something like a museum of desserts and draws me up a map of how to get there. And as luck would have it we had some free time that night and it happened to be right around the corner from our hotel. This place was amazing! Almost more art exhibit than bakery. Beautiful desserts under glass diplays like ones you see in a jewelry store. Soo amazing that one lady bent over to look at a dessert and hit her forehead on the glass! It took forever but we finally settled on 5 different sweets. We went back to the hotel and grabbed some forks and let the taste test begin! They were all very different from each other and amazing in their own right but we both finally settled on this lemon meringue square that was hands down one of the best desserts I've ever tasted. Cool date night idea that we were lucky enough to do at the coolest dessert bakery in Greece!
So this date was done last week and for all those that think you are just to busy to find the time to do a daily date night, please read on! We spent the last 9 days in Thessaloniki Greece on a mission trip with the amazing A21 Campaign Another story for another time but it was a life changing trip! Anyway, every night the teams came together for dinner and of course there was always an amazing dessert. Our date night plan was to choose a few desserts and decide which one was the best, so it really didn't leave us much options. Also in most of the European countries dinner is much later in the evening like 9-10 pm, so even if we wanted to go get extra desserts it was much too late and the places were closed.
Except for one evening, we had a chance to get dinner on our own with the team and we actually went to TGI Fridays ( I know, but it was the only place that would take credit cards). We got some desserts to-go and went back to the hotel to have date night. Honestly compared to all the amazing Greek desserts that we had all week it was nothing to but it was good non the less.
As luck would have it, Jonathan was talking to one of the A21 Greece Team members(shout out to Phil for sending us there) at our last meal together with the team and he mentioned this amazing little dessert place that he referred to as a museum of desserts! Well of course a map was drawn on a napkin and the plan was set. So later in the evening we had some down time on our own and we had such a late lunch (5pm) that we really weren't hungry for dinner but desserts sounded fantastic.
So we grabbed Dee Dee, I mean you really can't leave anyone behind for this excursion, and off we went to brave the streets of Greece alone in hopes of fantastic desserts..... and we were not disappointed. Pictures do not do it justice but it was just amazing, so amazing that we saw these two older Russian women looking in the window and one was so intent on the desserts that she smacked right into the window pane. Of course she laughed it off and came in to get her desserts right away! So we started to pick, and I just couldn't pick one piece for each of us so we ended up with four...I mean think of the baby right!?! :) So we boxed up our desserts and went home to see if they were as beautiful on the inside as they were on the outside.
We were not disappointed. Jonathan's favorite was the white chocolate birds nest and mine was the lemon pie. But lets be honest, there wasn't a scrap of food left in those boxes when we were done! Great date night!
Jonathan Says: So Mia alreay explained that we were out of the country and short on available time for a date night due to our crazy packed mission trip schedule. We grabbed some desserts from a TGI-Fridays one night but it left us both feelings like we could have done better I think. It just so happens that at our last meal together with the Greece team that their fearless leader Phil mentions to me this bakery and dessert place called Ble and says it's something like a museum of desserts and draws me up a map of how to get there. And as luck would have it we had some free time that night and it happened to be right around the corner from our hotel. This place was amazing! Almost more art exhibit than bakery. Beautiful desserts under glass diplays like ones you see in a jewelry store. Soo amazing that one lady bent over to look at a dessert and hit her forehead on the glass! It took forever but we finally settled on 5 different sweets. We went back to the hotel and grabbed some forks and let the taste test begin! They were all very different from each other and amazing in their own right but we both finally settled on this lemon meringue square that was hands down one of the best desserts I've ever tasted. Cool date night idea that we were lucky enough to do at the coolest dessert bakery in Greece!
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