The Wandering Eater

This is the second, separate post for something that has taken 6 1/2 hours of hanging out with a lot of my girlfriends. This post will be about the fooding portion of the day; the macaron hunt was the previous one. Got it? Good.

Sunday morning was the plan that Robyn and I have our macaron hunt/fooding for the past few weeks. The insane thing I told her and all of my friends was that we’re going to meet at Silver Moon Bakery by 9 AM! As preposterous as it is for me to get my behind from Queens and trek all the way up to the Upper West Side, at least Robyn lives closer since she lives on Murray (or Curry) Hill. I should apologize to most of all my five other friends who also came from Bayside and Jamaica, Queens and especially to Helen, who is from Staten Island. Helen told me that the S.I. ferry only comes once at the top of every hour.

Anyways, I met Helen first since she got there about 8:15 and we just chat in McDonald’s (she was also hungry for a parfait), until it was about 8:45, and walked to Silver Moon Bakery.

Silver Moon Bakery

The Day’s Menu…

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Finding a delicious or even a good French macaron in New York City is nearly impossible. Why? It’s because it’s not that popular in comparison to (the easily confused with) the coconut macaroon and the ones I usually find taste terrible. So, Robyn and I set out a journey to find the best macaron possible in New York City yesterday morning.

Let me set up some standards to let you know what is a “good” macaron. A good macaron should be sweet but not cloyingly so, it has to have a good ratio of cookie to filling, and the cookie has to a thin, crisp crust with a bit of a melt-in-your mouth texture once a bite has been taken. I will not do the normal rating system from my previous “best of” posts since it’s a bit hard to define a certain grade but I will give feedback on what is good and/or bad about that certain macaron.

First up is Silver Moon Bakery. They only have two flavors, Almond Chocolate and Chocolate for $2.50 each.

The macarons…

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