The miracle is not to walk on water.
The miracle is to walk on the green earth,
dwelling deeply in the present moment
and feeling truly alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

LOIZA ST. WELCOMES CUPCAKE BIZ
P.S. now there are two of them on the same street.

Fairy Cakes: good lunch options and
scrumptious cupcakes

SAN JUAN -- "Spectacular food," "great service, "a movie-like
setting," these are the sort of compliments Fairy Cakes is getting
on TripAdvisor nowthat the coffee shop, formerly based in Hato
Rey, has settled into its new cosy locale on Loiza St..

Cupcakes made with organic ingredients are the heart of this small
business but not its only offering. Unlike Double Cake, the first
bakery to set up shop on Calle Loiza, Fairy Cakes serves up a daily
lunch with a menu that changes weekly.

(At Double Cake, it's strictly cupcakes and refreshments which can be
enjoyed in the store's pleasant back lounge.)

Fairy Cake's tasty and varied lunch options include a soup plus
different sandwiches and salads. Everything is made with fresh
and organic ingredients by owner Carmen Vega and her help.

This week's options included a black bean and a pumpkin soup; a BLT meatless bacon sandwich with lettuce and tomato; a gemelli pasta salad with spinach, onions and tomatoes and a quinoa bowl with garbanzos and cherry tomatoes. For an extra couple of dollars you can add
chicken to the salad.

For dessert, there's sweets, cookies and cupcakes. There's
three different kinds of cupcakes (regular, gluten-free or vegan) and they come in three different sizes (mini,
small, large) in a tantalizing variety of tropical flavors.

Good food tastes better amid pleasant surroundings and
Fairy Cakes is a lovely setting. Faux wood floors, pastel walls
decorated with the owner's personal art collection, round
marble tables with metal bases and an old-fashioned glass
display for the cupcakes. Next to the large bay window
facing Calle Loiza, an upholstered sofa is an open invitation
to sit down, wait for a table or enjoy a cup of tea or Puerto
Rican coffee.

Even kids have their own special place, a little pink table at
which they can sit down to eat or draw.

For the little ones, a small pink table

Small and cosy, Fairy Cakes reflects the owner's good taste and her
wish to make clients feel at home. They do and since opening, Vega
said she has been attracting residents from the neighborhood and
tourists in addition to long-standing clients eager to continue
enjoying her sweet, organic delights.


FAIRY CAKES, 1603 Loiza Street
Tue - Th, 10:30 am to 6 pm; 
Fri, 11 am to 6:30 pm; Sat, 11 am to 5 pm
787. 200. 8388

It is better to look at the sky than live there.
Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country
where the thunder goes and things disappear.

Truman Capote

Breakfast At Tiffany

 ☛   A SIMPLE TIP

Leaky faucet and the plumber is not available right away?
Then don't let the water trickle go to waste but collect
it in a large plastic container placed under the dripping
faucet. You can use it to water the plants or to mop the floors!

Photography by Ulrike Blasor

To be alive at all
is to have scars.

John Steinbeck

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