B & O Espresso

08/22/09

Fun place, great food

by loveg8food at Citysearch

My husband and I had been planning to get married for about a year and then one day we decided to get married within a week...why prolong the stress of planning a wedding! We heard B & O made delicious cakes, so we called them. Who would have ever thought a place named B & O Espresso would have great wedding cakes? They met with us the next day, gave us samples to try of their different cakes and showed us a photo album of lots of cakes they had made in the past. They were so beautiful it was hard to decide but we didn't have time to labor over the details! We chose a chocolate raspberry tort cake with light periwinkle frosting, a cream colored piping design, with live periwinkle blue flowers and cream colored roses. They make the fresh raspberry sauce themselves and put it in as a filling between the layers of cake along with the whipped cream icing. OMG! It was wonderful, decadent, delicious and they delivered it to the place we were getting married and set it up, ready to be served. It was beautiful and not at all like the dry, tasteless wedding cakes people usually serve. Even our photographer who does a couple hundred weddings a year said it was the best wedding cake she had ever had. Try them, you will be pleased!

• Pros: Best Wedding Cakes and other desserts
• Cons: difficult parking

06/26/09

Fantastic Happy Hour and new Bar is Brilliant

by khartmanbrit at Citysearch

B & O has moved their bar upstairs right off Olive Way (called Bar 41). They have one of the absolute best Happy Hours in the city; the prices and drinks are fantastic.

I am terribly, terribly picky about my drinks ( the liquor, how the drink is made and price). B & O is the only place which has done brilliant in each category. I don't want a fancy $12 new-fangled, mangled, foo-foo drink (hello Poppy), it has to taste good and be well made. The bartender, Ashley, is a brilliant drink-mixer and great person to have behind the bar; no snooty attitudes here.

The new bar food, sliders, are tasty and cheap, a great addition to the menu.

Even better, B&O has added on a second Happy hour in the later evening. Did I mention all HH drinks are $2 off? That is the way a Happy Hour should be---not like those fake happy hours at bars where the bartender choses which god-awful drink is discounted. At the B&O (Bar 41) the Happy Hour is geared toward the pleasing the cusomer: which drink do you want? It's $2 off.

And that is the way it should be--more happy hours for all of us.

• Pros: Lovely Decor, Brilliant drinks with best Happy Hour
• Cons: desserts have calories

03/05/09

Ilove this place

by CSMobileUser2 at Citysearch

This place is so cool and has wonderful apple crisp. Love them