- You know, if I put this in a video, we're probably
never gonna be able to get a reservation here again.
So maybe we should not publish this.
- Hello from Queretaro, Mexico.
- Today, we're letting Laska, our dog,
choose what we're going to do in this vlog.
We gotta wake her up.
Laska, do you want a treat?
Okay, so I wrote on three different pieces of paper
different things that we can do today.
And one is going to show you Juriquilla,
another is Zona Centro,
or this really awesome, colorful,
like super Instagrammable place
that neither one of us have been to before.
- [May] You have to choose one, so here we go.
(upbeat music)
You already made your choice? Okay.
(Jordan laughing)
That's enough.
Okay.
It says "Tazas Y Pétalos" so we are going to be here today.
- I initially wrote Rosas Y Pétalos,
but then she's like, "no that's not what it's called."
- Something like that.
- Yeah, so it's Tazas Y Pétalos,
and this is this incredible coffee shop
that you've never seen anything like it.
Let's go. - Okay.
(upbeat music)
- Okay, we're in our Uber now and we'll be there shortly.
(relaxing music)
Our first stop today is called Tazas Y Pétalos
or cups and flower petals.
And it's right outside the neighborhood of El Campanario
which is probably the fanciest neighborhood in the city,
that's just totally filled with million dollar homes.
So May, what do you think of this place?
- I really love it! - Yeah, it's really unique.
I was thinking before coming here
that it was going to be too pink
but it's not totally overwhelming.
- No. - Or anything like that.
- It's pretty soft and you feel calm and relaxed here,
so I really love it.
- You know, there's this phrase in Spanish
like "de color rosa" is it?
- Yes. - And it, what does that mean?
- It means that everything's so beautiful
and perfect and happy and...
- Yeah, so like the translation would be
"of pink color" or "colored pink."
It's a pretty place.
Flowers on every table.
And you know, it's probably
about the same price as Starbucks, more or less.
- Yes it is. - For the atmosphere,
it's not like it's super expensive or anything.
And on the menu, they have matcha lattes
and you can make it pink for an extra eight pesos.
So that's what May did, she got a pink matcha latte.
I don't know what kind of magic or sorcery
they worked to make it pink (laughs)
but why don't you give it a try?
(twinkling sound)
- It's good. (laughs)
- May showed me their Instagram
and some of their Instagram stories from here.
And they have these things called tea bombs.
I didn't even know a tea bomb was a thing
but the ones May showed me, at Christmas time
they make them in the shape of a Christmas tree.
They're so freaking cool.
And then also Dia De Muertos.
- Yeah, the Dia De Muertos one are so pretty.
It's like a shape of skull with the flowers over her head
like a catrina, which is like a, like an iconic symbol
like Mexican symbol for Dia De Muertos.
So it's so pretty, all the details are gorgeous!
- So today they only had tea bombs in a heart shape
which admittedly aren't nearly as cool
as the Christmas trees or the skulls,
but I still had to get one
to see what the experience was like.
This actually isn't just a tea and coffee shop
but they'll also like make a bouquet of flowers for you
and you can buy bouquets of flowers
and things like that here, as well.
So hence the tazas meaning "cups"
and petalos meaning like "flower petals."
I loved how they turned a relatively simple concept
of a tea and coffee shop into this whole experience
with all of these different touches they have throughout
like making the whole thing these different shades of pink.
And also as far as like putting their logo
in the bottom of the tea cups and things like that.
And then you have places to take pictures
and flowers on every table.
Although perhaps maybe this isn't a guy's scene
and it's definitely more popular with the women,
I still think it's pretty cool.
The large matcha latte after an upcharge for almond milk
and another upcharge for making it pink,
it was 105 pesos.
And then my fancy-pants tea bomb was 180 pesos.
Okay, and now Laska is going to make one more choice
for us of what we're eating for lunch.
She can choose Japanese, a steakhouse, or Indian food.
(upbeat music)
(laughing)
- Okay, I think... - She dropped one option
- [Jordan] She dropped one in the hole.
- She chose the Indian restaurant we are going to try.
(Indian music)
- So this is really interesting,
we just got to the Indian restaurant
and there's no signage out front whatsoever.
May was texting them on WhatsApp to make a reservation.
And so he told you to just text them when we arrived?
- When we arrived, yeah.
This looks just like a house. (laughs) Yeah.
What were you thinking, walking in here?
- It's so interesting, I mean,
it's like going out of Queretaro
without going out of Queretaro.
- Yeah, it's like, we're walking into this house
and then you just walk into the backyard
and it smells so good.
- It's like going to Narnia, I mean you just cross...
- To Narnia. (laughs) - You just.
We just went in, it's like, I don't know.
It feels so different.
It doesn't look like being in Queretaro.
It's like being in Narnia but much better
because we're gonna have such good food.
- And then walking in here, I immediately noticed
that some of the patrons are Indians speaking Hindu.
So like that's how you know it's good,
how you know it's authentic.
Immediately she brought out
a little drink menu for us to look at.
We didn't get to keep it at the table
but it had some typical Indian drinks.
Like I got a masala chai and then you got, I forget.
- A lassi, it's a lassi.
It's like a beverage with water and natural yogurt,
so I'm excited to try.
- How's your lassi?
- Mmm, let me try again because it's interesting.
It has so many flavors in it so...
I think it's a mango yogurt, with cardamom and almonds.
- Do you like it? - Maybe cinnamon?
Yes, it's so good.
But it's like a party of flavors on my tongue.
So I love it, yes.
(background chatter)
- Interesting.
It's refreshing, a little bit sweet.
A little bit yogurt-y.
- Creamy. - Yeah, creamy.
I had to wait a little bit for my masala chai to cool off
because it was so hot when it came out, but I just tried it.
The flavor's really rich.
I don't really know how to describe it.
I'm not very good
at like tasting all the flavors and describing it.
So I'm just gonna let May do that.
(laughs)
- Well, it's interesting because, I must say,
that I'm a very huge lover of chai, but
when you try a chai you immediately know
that you're drinking it.
But with this one, it was different
because at the beginning
I could taste a very different flavor.
I cannot describe it, but after a few seconds in my mouth
I can feel the flavor of the chai.
So it's interesting, I really like it so much.
- Yeah. - Yes.
- So the server just brought the menu out to us
and he explained the whole thing, every dish on there
and gave us some recommendations.
So we ordered about half of the menu.
So I have a feeling pretty soon our table
will be entirely filled with food.
So we ordered one appetizer,
it was chicken tikka and they just brought that out.
It looked really good,
but something else I love is they brought out
these really pretty glass plates
to put on top of our place setting.
They also brought this salsa
that they said has like mint and cilantro and...
- Yogurt. - Yogurt, yeah.
- I'm gonna try this.
It's called a chicken tikka? - Yes.
- It's soft.
A little bit spicy. - Like tender?
- Yes. - Easy to chew.
- Mmm. - Okay.
How's the flavor?
- I can feel the cinnamon flavor.
- Cinnamon, really? - Yes.
Cardamom.
Cloves.
- Would you get it again?
- Yes, I think so. - Okay. I'm gonna try.
I've been digging into this appetizer for a little bit now
and I love it.
The chicken is so tender, there's a little bit of spice,
there's a little bit of bite to it,
but it's so flavorful with the Indian spices.
You described it as... yeah.
- They're gonna kill me, but it's,
I said that, it's like the Indian version of boneless,
but much better. - Of boneless wings.
(laughs)
- But much better.
- Yeah, seriously, so much better.
(laughs)
They're gonna kill me. (laughs)
The rest of our food was delivered to us
and we got one dish that's made of pork,
another one that's called butter chicken,
and then we got a rice and then like these Indian tortillas
and I asked... (laughs)
What?
Indian tortillas? - Yes.
(laughs)
- Is that rude?
- No.
- Is that a big cultural faux pas?
I asked them if the food
is from a particular region of India
and she said, "oh yeah, the chef is from Northern India"
so, all of the spices and stuff are imported from India
and it's prepared in that style.
What do you like so far?
- I'm eating the lamb and it's so good.
It's spicy, but not a little bit.
I was afraid that it would be too spicy
because I don't like spicy and chili food
but it's really good.
Like from one to ten the spiciness is like a two.
- And for me it's more like a four or five.
(laughs)
But she's Mexicana and I'm not.
But my favorite so far is the butter chicken.
Ooh, that and the appetizer.
But I also like the rice and tortillas
that come along with it.
- This is my favorite - The butter chicken?
It's so good.
The sauce of the butter chicken is amazing.
I could literally just eat the sauce and be happy.
Recently, like last week,
we went to this international community festival
here in Queretaro.
And they had all these booths from all over the world.
Like some were, or a lot were artesenias,
like the artisan products
but there were also a lot of food stations
and one of those food stations was an Indian place.
And then we learned
that they were from this restaurant here in Queretaro.
I love this restaurant so much
and I'm really glad we went to that festival
because I don't know how long it would've taken us
to find this place.
But now, you know, if I put this in a video
we're probably never gonna be able
to get a reservation here again,
so maybe we should not publish this?
(laughs)
Okay, so we've eaten all of our food
and we ordered a couple of desserts.
And so far I love this place.
What do you think?
- I'm excited about the dessert.
I cannot stop thinking about that,
but the only thing that honestly had made me feel a bit,
a little bit disappointed about this place
is that I really tried so hard, but my stomach is so small.
So I got full so quickly
and I think I cannot eat anymore but...
(laughs)
I anyways want to try that dessert
because they sound so interesting that the girl described it
and it was like, okay, I wanna, I wanna go for that.
Even when I know that I'm so full right now.
- The only disappointing thing is you can't eat more.
- Yes, it's the only thing.
- I wanna try a bite of this.
It's like ice cream and then there's
some type of liquid, creamy liquid in here,
as well as some little piece of bread-y pudding-type thing.
- So? (laughs)
- Mmm.
Try that.
(laughing)
- You spilled ice cream on your hand.
- You licked me.
(laughs)
I didn't expect that. - Me either.
- It's so good.
- I've been hanging around Laska too much.
It's really good though, I love it.
It looks so, it looks so weird.
It's like you're eating something
that would be used to make a house.
- Yes. (laughs)
- Or like maybe something that would use,
be used to pack something fragile,
like from an Amazon shipment.
- Mmm.
I love it.
- What's it like? It looks really dry.
- It's not, actually, it's not.
When you put it into your mouth, it melts.
- Oh. - Like a cotton candy.
- Oh, okay, interesting.
And what else does it have besides almonds?
- Mmm, I think maybe a little bit of milk and pistachio.
- Interesting.
- Sugar, but just a little bit
- And some kind of magic to... - And magic.
- Make it all work. (laughs)
- It's so weird because
here it looks like a huge portion of it.
But when I put it into my mouth,
it's like this and comes into this
just a little small portion of it, so.
- It's so weird, I would not think this is edible.
I wouldn't think you'd be able to eat this.
- Yes.
It does, like, if you said like right now.
It does, it doesn't look tasty at all.
- No.
- It's like a sponge.
I don't have any idea how it could be made? It's so weird.
- So what are your thoughts on that place, May?
- I really love it.
I mean, we've been to many different restaurants
here in Queretaro,
and now this one has become one of our favorites.
- Yeah. - Everything was so perfect.
I mean, since you went in, it's like a lot of
- Plants and yeah. - Greens and plants.
The music was so relaxing.
- All the decorations. - All the decorations, yeah.
The owner, because it's a familiar restaurant, so.
- A family owned restaurant. - Yeah.
The chef is the husband and the like an Indian guy
and the wife was a Mexican girl
and all of them were so kind with us, so,
you really felt that you were going to a friend's house
and just enjoying good food.
So I really really loved that.
- Yeah, seriously.
And above all, the food was incredible.
- [May] Yes.
- We have to go back here. - Definitely.
- Okay, for dinner? (laughs)
(upbeat music)
So we were invited to meet up with some friends.
And May said that she knows about a great French bakery
that's really close to that house that we're going to.
So we decided to come here and as it turns out
this is in the same neighborhood.
That was one of the first neighborhoods
I ever stayed in Queretaro.
In recent videos, I've showed you Jardines de La Hacienda
and this neighborhood is called just Jardines.
But yeah, this French bakery it's called Saint Honoré.
I don't know how to speak French.
What's it called?
- I don't know how is it pronounced.
- Oh. - Saint Honoré, I don't know.
- But May says there's excellent cinnamon rolls here.
- Yes. - But unfortunately
most of the bread is already gone for the day.
- And it's so bad because it's too early.
I mean, they close at eight and it's six o'clock.
And it's all over. (chuckles)
So we have to come back another day.
- Better luck next time.