Fifth and last stop for my pre-Birthday Food Crawl - Cold brew two ways @ Dark Horse, Golden Hill + Star Wars Trivial Pursuit card fun!

Departing from Horton Plaza via the 94 brought us to Dark Horse on 25th...

I saw on Instagram that they had a rather novel preparation of cold brew...

which we all wanted to try...

Pre-Birthday Food Crawl - Stop 4: Dessert @ Le Parfait Paris, downtown

The day started off sunny then got a tiny bit overcast, which was fine with me.

I find that even cloud cover makes for better photos (no harsh shadows as with sunlight). The sun would peek out now and then...

The ladies hadn't been here yet and I was curious to try something new...

Pre-Birthday Food Crawl - Stop 3: Brunch @ The Rose + cute shops (Gold Leaf & West Grove Collective)

Located diagonally across from the Shepard Fairey monk mural was our brunch spot...

in this older building with handpainted signage...

There is a gold rose on their door...

Pre-birthday Foodcrawl, Stop 2 - An appetizer at The Crack Shack

This next spot was not on my planned itinerary but we were so glad to "deviate"...

and give The Crack Shack a try!  It was merely a block away from our first stop at James Coffee...

Pre-birthday Food Crawl with the Educator GF's - First stop for caffeine and pie @ James Coffee!

The Educator GF's and I departed from my abode earlier this morning and were pretty much out the majority of the day...

No sign of rain (which would come later tonight). As early as it was...

parking on the northern end of Little Italy was actually quite painless...