We tried out Paradiso for dinner which is a Mexican restaurant that offers an excellent vegetarian menu which includes soy beef, chicken and steak! I first started off with some guacamole and chips and then had a steak taco with Mexican rice and refried beans. The meal was really delicious. Even the waitress was interested in my feedback about the 'steak' because it was recently added to the menu. What was odd (at least according to this Winnipegger) is if you eat after 9pm (which we did) you received 25% off your bill! That's awesome! Even without the discount, I would happily return and try their other options. I apologize for the red hue but I couldn't avoid it when taking pictures.
I enjoyed this meal while drinking some cherry coke!
For dessert we stopped at Tutti Frutti:
I had a mix of very berry, pumpkin, chocolate and raspberry frozen yogurt topped with cookie dough and peanut M&M's all nicely by the offered divider. Why don't Winnipeg's locations have the convenient divider?
The next morning, our hotel offered a variety of breakfast foods:
Hard boiled egg for some protein, strawberry and banana yogurt for some calcium and mini donuts just because. They also had some french vanilla to give some flavour to my coffee. Tasted like candy! They also had fresh baked bread and a make your own waffle bar. If it weren't for the line up, I would have had that.
For lunch after trying to go to Panera at noon (big mistake) for some soup and a sandwich we were told there was a 35 mins wait and since we were pressed for time we went to Quiznos. The veggie sub really hit the spot.
I also enjoyed some cheddar and sour cream ruffled chips. I have never seen that flavour before.
What about the shopping you may ask?
Well, I certainly brought back my share of vanilla coke zero, cherry coke zero and cherry coke but I also went a little crazy in Target with all of the Ghiradelli chocolates and Starbucks coffee.
We also went to Macy's and I found some fun kitchen stuff from the Martha Stewart Collection. Do they even sell her stuff here? The chocolate is kinda taking things over in this picture but I picked up some silicone mitts for the oven (in my kitchen colour- turqouise), a non-stick pastry mat, and a vinaigrette bottle/shaker hiding on the left side of the picture. Since we are buying some fancy vinegars and oils lately, I thought it would be fun to get this container so we can make our own. The bottle is also encrypted with classic dressing recipes.
Check out this pastry mat though:
I can't wait to make a pie! It was a little pricey at $21.99 USD but I can't wait to try it.
That was a really fun, quick, exhausting, successful 24 hours of shopping and eating.
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