Boston, Massachusetts.
My favorite city of all time. Boston's home to some of the most prestigious schools, as well as many famous eateries. Flour Bakery was featured on
The Best Thing I Ever Ate; which for those of you unfamiliar with this show, is one of the best shows known to mankind. Yes. I'm being absolutely serious.
As my Dad and I were dragging our legs, walking to our flavor filled experience, we saw a group of runners. They were espescially inspiring... but I was more inspired to eat the food that was awaiting me. As we were waiting for an opening walkway through the runners, we glanced at a man dressed in a costume. A uhmm... present costume.
Now, being at this bakery was already an amazing experience. I mean, Bobby Flay featured this bakery on Food Network, claiming that it had the best sticky bun in the nation. Bobby Flay's amazing presence... adding on the fact that the owner of the store is asian. Yep. Joanne Chang, the mastermind behind this legend, is asian. Flour was packed when I walked in. I was freezing cold in the weather, and my Dad claimed that the coldness was making him hungry. Although I highly doubt the truth in that claim, I had to agree. There were so many choices; it was so difficult to choose twenty items; let alone three. We ordered the reknowned sticky bun, the almond brioche, and the vanilla custard filled doughnut.
The sticky bun was a bit of a dissapointment for me. It was flaky and sticky as the name had claimed, but it lacked the moistness that I was expecting. The vanilla custard filled doughnut is only available on Sundays, and it was
amazing. I wolfed down all the almond brioche as well. Flour is a bakery worth revisiting. I can't wait for my next time in Boston to sample the other pastries on the menu!
