Caffe bene full#

Today, some mainstream coffee and dessert shops like Grace Street, Caffe Bene, and Brooklyn Kolache offer ube latte to match their other ube offerings. VisayaĪt the now-shuttered Mountain Province, a cafe in Brooklyn that served traditional Filipino pastries like ube ensaymada, ube latte was among the bestsellers.

There’s an ube soft cheesecake at Keki Purple Dough in Queens offers a variety of ube desserts and Kabisera has its version of ube biko.

NYC ice cream purveyors Oddfellows and Van Leeuwen have offered ube before and Chinatown’s Original Ice Cream Factory, Flip Sigi, and Soft Swerve continue to do so today. We’ve seen the products on the shelves of every Trader Joe’s: ube mochi pancake & waffle mix, ube shortbread cookies, ice cream, and jam.

In this ode to ube, the writer explained “This lovely lilac-fleshed tuber has long been one of the country’s most beloved foods, and though chefs around the world have recently begun adopting it for use in all manner of desserts, ube is much more than an ingredient in the Philippines it reflects the nation’s complex history.” Lady M made a seasonal ube mille crepes cake. Last month, Food and Wine Magazine took it a notch higher and put tocino burger with ube buns by DC-based PogiBoys on their cover.īBC also did a feature entitled “ Ube: The Filipino tuber taking over the world”. This year, even mainstream publications such as Wall Street Journal and New York Times have featured ube. Dominique Ansel created an ube cronut | AJPress photo by Momar G. The fascination began several years ago when these mouth-watering lilac-colored pastries and desserts like cakes and ice cream became trending on social media. It is also healthy, sustainable, and a feast for the sight and taste.Ī quick and cursory search on the internet for “ ube desserts” (Instagram and TikTok, preferably) would net a plethora of recipes and dishes showcasing this purple tuber’s greatest qualities: flavor, color, and texture. It may be because of its subtle nutty and vanilla taste and its strikingly vivid violet hue which have made it into a social media superstar, garnering millions of posts, views, and likes. Ube, a tuber indigenous to the Philippines has been touted as the next big thing in the culinary industry. Trader Joe’s has released an ube line – ice cream, pancake mix, shortbread cookies, and most recently, spread | AJPress photo by Momar G. WHILE Filipinos in the diaspora have their distinct ube memory – from the fish-shaped halaya with flecks of Star margarine or the jars of ube jam pasalubong from Baguio City, or ube in pastillas or otap – it was only about a decade ago when food lovers around the world began taking notice.

Caffe bene full#

The health drink is made with a combination of black beans, barley, brown rice, and black sesame and supposedly “facilitates detoxification, weight loss, and reduces vulnerability to diabetes and heart disease.” Check out their full menu below.If you’re in Queens and craving for ube, visit Max’s for their halo-halo Dunkin’ Donuts and Starbucks might have some serious competition as over 4,000 franchised stores are projected by 2020.Īside from providing coffee and espresso drinks, Caffé Bene’s menu offers bubble tea, smoothies, frappes, non-alcoholic “mojitos,” gelato, waffles, sandwiches, and something called a Misagaru. in 2012 and already has 86 locations, most of them in New York and California. Launched in Seoul, South Korea, in 2008, the coffeehouse now has a staggering number of outlets in 16 different countries. Scheduled to debut in July, this will be one of three locations due to open in Boston by the end of 2014. Caffé Bene, now the world’s second largest coffee franchise, will be opening its first-ever New England location in Boston’s Back Bay near Symphony Hall.