Peets Sweets

Decided to give Peet's chocolate chip cookie a go today. Good chip dispersion, pretty good dough, but not terribly memorable other than the fact that the whole cookie tasted like coffee. The coffee aroma permeating the store must have somehow seeped into the cookie and confused my senses.

Turned out that the highlight, food-wise, was actually the reduced fat berry peach scone. I remember when Starbucks first entered the Hong Kong market, American scones were hard triangular things - nothing like what I experienced today. The triangular morsel was delectably soft and bread-like, not overly sweet, with an appropriate dispersion of raspberries and peach slices. Simply delicious.

Vegan - are you sure?

Popped into the Whole Foods on 4th St between Folsom and Harrison to get some naan bread and ended up lingering in the baked goods section. There was another guy there who was also there contemplating his cookie fix. Apparently, they used to have really good chocolate chip cookies but according to him, the person who used to bake them passed away, and he wasn't a fan of the new ones. While cookie goodness can be quite subjective, I thought I would give the vegan one a try instead of the usual.

Compared to most vegan baked goods, this was surprisingly un-mealy and un-bland. Chewy in texture, but a little more tough than I would like on a regular basis. Easy to eat because while it doesn't taste as good-for-you as most baked goods, but it also doesn't taste rich.