City Hall Cheesecake in Collierville

We stopped by the only dessert place open on the square in Collierville on a Saturday evening. Thanks for being open City Hall Cheesecake! They had probably 8 regular flavors and just 2 specialty flavors for the day. Chocolate strawberry is not a regular! For shame! It's my favorite! So they only had 2 chocolate flavors and I chose the Snickers Bar. Phillip chose the White Chocolate Raspberry. The cheesecake was very creamy and smooth. Almost like ice cream. The snickers pieces really took away from the texture of the cheesecake. I would have preferred not to have that extra distraction. Phillip's cake was much tastier. The raspberry was not overpowering. It added just enough flavor to not distract from the cheesecake itself. If it had had real chocolate instead of white, it would have been a winner. I think sometimes people try to make the cheesecake more flavorful by adding all these "things" to it. Sometimes more is not better. I will try this place again, but I will opt for a cake that has no "extras" piled on top that will only distract from the beauty of what cheesecake can be. Other flavors they had were: Cookies and Cream (which I would try), Peanut Butter, Key Lime, Chocolate Caramel, Banana and Triple Chocolate (which they were out of). I can't recall the others.

Vietnamese in Collierville -New Que Huong

The food was tasty. To start off with we had spring rolls with plum sauce. I wish the rolls had been sealed on the ends as the stuffing kept falling out of the back of the roll. Also the plum sauce was not as tasty as other ones I've had. My entree was a tofu curry with onion, mint, and lemon grass. It was served on a bed of tomato and cucumber slices. Not as fragrant a curry as a Thai curry is. Kind of a heavy sauce, but flavorful. The tofu was fried but soaked up the curry sauce really well. Phillip had Pho, which is Vietnamese soup. It was a broth based soup with vermicelli, veggies and tofu. It was served with bean sprouts, parsley, lemon slices, and kaffir lime leaves on the side. It was tasty but Phillip added Asian hot sauce and fish sauce to add more flavor. When the check was delivered, so were two orange slices and two pieces of really yummy cake. It reminded me of strawberry shortcake but much softer. All in all it was a good meal. We both were stuffed when we left because the dishes contained plenty of food. We probably could have split an entree.

My name is Kellye, and I'm a foodie. I love the smells, tastes, textures, and look of foods. I especially like to be served fanciful foods. Food that looks too pretty to eat. And if that food tastes as good as it looks, oh man, I'm in heaven. I don't just eat whatever. I'm kind of picky. I do like to try all kinds of ethnic foods.

I think food is a journey. And I'm ready to hop on the trail and see what I discover next.