Minglewoods outing
Apr. 24th, 2026 12:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutI’ll catch up in a bit on the drive down and so forth.
But I’m in RVA (R. is still at home) for RavenCon, and have already ventured into Carytown in Richmond for vegan baked goodies from Minglewoods. I got chocolate chip cookies (the gluten full ones, which I have not yet tried), a blackberry cardamom cookie (yum!), a croissant, a chocolate croissant, a danish and coffee cake. The croissant is really good, if you are not supposed to be eating dairy. If you can go out and eat dairy without violating your values or your health, probably you’re better off with the butter-full croissant. But this is a really good vegan croissant. The chocolate croissant is quite good, period. I’m surprised how savoury the blackberry cardamom cookie is and very happy with it. The coffee cake is fantastic (gluten-full, and I want to say almond cherry something or other?).
But the Frangipane Danish is freakishly amazing, and easily the best of the batch.
I did not eat all of any of these! Other people should get a chance to try these, and A. is still waking up, and the rest will arrive in the evening. I may have more of that danish tho. Mmmmmm. It sort of depends on whether I’m eating lunch in the room, in the hotel restaurant, or at Twin Hickory, and that mostly depends on how quickly A. gets moving. There’s a 3 pm panel I’d like to attend, because apparently Nate Hoffelder is also here.
ETA:
Lunch for me was at Domoishi and it was good! I would happily go to this chain again (poke ramen etc. I got a poke bowl).
3 pm panel was fun (hobbies for writers). The line between fantasy and sf discussion was average, and very limited engagement with things like romance/cozy and litrpg/progressive fiction and where those fit in. I missed opening ceremonies. Dinner was at The Tavern at the hotel. My sister and niblings arrived around 7ish. The drag show was pretty good as well, altho I didn’t stay for all of it, as I went over to the monster romance panel, which was meh, altho Dagmar Avery was awesome, and Stella Price was very sensible. Some of the audience had no idea what the topic referred to, and the moderator’s questions weren’t super helpful, and I was really hoping for a lot more discussion of interesting authors/titles.
But I’m in RVA (R. is still at home) for RavenCon, and have already ventured into Carytown in Richmond for vegan baked goodies from Minglewoods. I got chocolate chip cookies (the gluten full ones, which I have not yet tried), a blackberry cardamom cookie (yum!), a croissant, a chocolate croissant, a danish and coffee cake. The croissant is really good, if you are not supposed to be eating dairy. If you can go out and eat dairy without violating your values or your health, probably you’re better off with the butter-full croissant. But this is a really good vegan croissant. The chocolate croissant is quite good, period. I’m surprised how savoury the blackberry cardamom cookie is and very happy with it. The coffee cake is fantastic (gluten-full, and I want to say almond cherry something or other?).
But the Frangipane Danish is freakishly amazing, and easily the best of the batch.
I did not eat all of any of these! Other people should get a chance to try these, and A. is still waking up, and the rest will arrive in the evening. I may have more of that danish tho. Mmmmmm. It sort of depends on whether I’m eating lunch in the room, in the hotel restaurant, or at Twin Hickory, and that mostly depends on how quickly A. gets moving. There’s a 3 pm panel I’d like to attend, because apparently Nate Hoffelder is also here.
ETA:
Lunch for me was at Domoishi and it was good! I would happily go to this chain again (poke ramen etc. I got a poke bowl).
3 pm panel was fun (hobbies for writers). The line between fantasy and sf discussion was average, and very limited engagement with things like romance/cozy and litrpg/progressive fiction and where those fit in. I missed opening ceremonies. Dinner was at The Tavern at the hotel. My sister and niblings arrived around 7ish. The drag show was pretty good as well, altho I didn’t stay for all of it, as I went over to the monster romance panel, which was meh, altho Dagmar Avery was awesome, and Stella Price was very sensible. Some of the audience had no idea what the topic referred to, and the moderator’s questions weren’t super helpful, and I was really hoping for a lot more discussion of interesting authors/titles.