Atlas Cafe, New York City

The only drawback of living downtown is after a gorgeous meal at a in-my-backyard restaurant, the trip home is fraught with edible distractions and temptations.

After dinner at The E.U., we walked past Atlas Café, a mouse hole café on Second Avenue. I would have totally missed this café and continued to walk past it if not for Paulina, who used to visit during her days at NYU.

We got a couple of yogurt cups- peanut butter and Oreo, and blueberry. The blueberry was nice (oh generic word!) and naturally the peanut butter and Oreo 'wow'. You know what’s funny, I could endorse peanut butter but I don’t like Oreo cookies. Ok before sounding extraterrestrial, it’s not that I detest Oreos, it’s just I prefer the Oreo cookie biscuit to the cream. So instead of eating the cookie whole, I would remove the cream like how I scrape off the frostng on a cupcake... right... I’m so not endearing myself to the human population.

But wait, that’s not the 'funny' bit! The baffling part is I love cookies and cream ice cream. It’s like I don’t eat the cream between the cookie but get a a real kick out of the double whammy cream in cookies and cream (take one) and ice cream (take two).



What I like about Atlas is you get to choose your toppings and they blend it into the ice cream or yogurt for you. One day after feeling sort of cheated by Chikalicious, I got a cup of tofu ice cream and vegan oreo. It tasted… healthy since tofu ice cream has a rather 'cleansed' aftertaste.

At the end of the day, Chika-atas desserts do nothing for me as I like my no nonsense desserts. All it takes is just a scoop (or make that two) solid good quality ice cream to make me satiated.