Your favorite Goldbelly finds
Feb 1, 2021, 5:58 pm
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I am obsessed with this Mortgage Apple Cake. It tastes like a heavy, moist spice cake and you can actually taste a little sourness in the frosting. Freezes decently well, too.
It's the only thing I've ordered from Goldbelly that I've craved enough to order again. (Aside from Lou Malnati's)
It's the only thing I've ordered from Goldbelly that I've craved enough to order again. (Aside from Lou Malnati's)
Feb 2, 2021, 3:20 pm
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Maybe it's because I live in a city that has great food, but I really don't understand the allure of Goldbelly. I look through the Chicago restaurants and there is nothing I would order if I didn't live in Chicago, mainly because the things they are selling are not things I go out of my way to buy while living here. A friend who lives in another great food City told me last week that he bought two birthday cakes on Goldbelly, and I was puzzled because his city has fantastic bakeries. And he wasn't ordering from milk bar or famous bakery in a city that he had previously lived in. I just don't get it.
Feb 2, 2021, 3:50 pm
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Maybe it's because I live in a city that has great food, but I really don't understand the allure of Goldbelly. I look through the Chicago restaurants and there is nothing I would order if I didn't live in Chicago, mainly because the things they are selling are not things I go out of my way to buy while living here. A friend who lives in another great food City told me last week that he bought two birthday cakes on Goldbelly, and I was puzzled because his city has fantastic bakeries. And he wasn't ordering from milk bar or famous bakery in a city that he had previously lived in. I just don't get it.
Feb 2, 2021, 4:17 pm
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Feb 2, 2021, 4:21 pm
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Feb 2, 2021, 4:55 pm
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Feb 2, 2021, 6:27 pm
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We have good local shops (Izzy's in Palo Alto being my favorite), and you can always find Western Bagels at Whole Foods, which are pretty good for supermarket bagels.
Feb 2, 2021, 6:34 pm
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Feb 2, 2021, 8:00 pm
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we have great bagels from Wise Sons and we get them weekly - we still love essa because it’s very hard or impossible to get their dark pumpernickel and honey oat bagels in the chewy non-dense format.
Feb 14, 2021, 8:56 pm
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Didn't see this mentioned but if you have a chase sapphire reserve card with chase with a bunch of pionts to burn, GoldBelly works with the 50% bonus on points, so been doing that and bought 3-$100 gift cards with the Am Ex offer and will use that after payyourself ends on 4/30.
My favorite is the double chocolate babka from Onek bakery
https://www.goldbelly.com/oneg-baker...?ref=merchanta
This stuff is amazing if put it in the oven (I just use my toaster oven) for a few minutes at 300 degrees.
Alo love the cookie monster ice cream sandwiches
https://www.goldbelly.com/nightingal...k?ref=merchant
My favorite is the double chocolate babka from Onek bakery
https://www.goldbelly.com/oneg-baker...?ref=merchanta
This stuff is amazing if put it in the oven (I just use my toaster oven) for a few minutes at 300 degrees.
Alo love the cookie monster ice cream sandwiches
https://www.goldbelly.com/nightingal...k?ref=merchant
Feb 14, 2021, 9:02 pm
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My wife is a big chocolate fan so our first Goldbelly AMEX offer was used picking up some of her Vosges chocolate favorites. Just enjoyed part of it as our Valentine's Day dessert -- very good and more importantly happy wife, happy life 
Feb 15, 2021, 10:22 am
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I'm almost certain that some of the Trader Joe's candy bars in the cardboard boxes are manufactured by Vosges. I've done a side by side ingredient and taste comparison of the salted caramel, I think, and it's a pretty good dupe if it's not made by Vosges. That said you can't get some of the funkier flavors at TJs. Does your Whole Foods not sell them? Since they're local to Chicago I'm not sure if they do nationwide distribution through WF or just local here.
Feb 15, 2021, 11:30 am
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I'm almost certain that some of the Trader Joe's candy bars in the cardboard boxes are manufactured by Vosges. I've done a side by side ingredient and taste comparison of the salted caramel, I think, and it's a pretty good dupe if it's not made by Vosges. That said you can't get some of the funkier flavors at TJs. Does your Whole Foods not sell them? Since they're local to Chicago I'm not sure if they do nationwide distribution through WF or just local here.
Feb 15, 2021, 1:06 pm
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I have bought Vosges chocolate bars at our local Whole Foods, however, they do not carry the truffles; I suspect that's because the truffles are supposed to be consumed within 14 days of shipping (they ship nationwide).
Feb 15, 2021, 1:19 pm
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I'm almost certain that some of the Trader Joe's candy bars in the cardboard boxes are manufactured by Vosges. I've done a side by side ingredient and taste comparison of the salted caramel, I think, and it's a pretty good dupe if it's not made by Vosges. That said you can't get some of the funkier flavors at TJs. Does your Whole Foods not sell them? Since they're local to Chicago I'm not sure if they do nationwide distribution through WF or just local here.