East Idaho Eats: Cafe et Amour is offering delicious treats in all types of weather – East Idaho News

IDAHO FALLS — We right here in japanese Idaho know the climate may be unpredictable. Whether or not it’s blazing sizzling out or freezing chilly, you’ll be able to all the time guess on discovering the proper deal with at Cafe Et Amour.

Cafe et Amour presents sizzling espresso, chilly fruit smoothies, breakfast objects, and home made treats year-round.

In keeping with proprietor Christina Christiaens, the ‘little pink trailer,’ because it has been dubbed in Rigby, has treats for everybody.

“We needed to verify we touched on everyone from the espresso drinkers to the not-coffee drinkers,” says Christiaens. “So, now we have a little bit little bit of every little thing.”

Including to the appeal of the little pink trailer, Christina and her husband Cory get their espresso from a small enterprise, giving alternatives to those that reside with disabilities.

Particular Wants Espresso, owned by Emanual Butler, a good friend of the Christiaens, employs these with bodily and psychological disabilities to offer them the chance to work in a secure, snug, and comfortable setting.

“They’re out of California, they usually make use of about 95% of the employees at their trailer with folks with bodily and psychological disabilities,” says Christina. “My husband’s finest good friend owns the corporate, they’re each veterans of the Navy, so we had been like, that’s what we’re doing! Plus, their espresso is actually yummy.”

Some of the widespread objects for espresso drinkers is a particular referred to as the Mardi Gras, made with chocolate, caramel, twisted marshmallow, and Particular Wants Espresso.

“Cafe Et Amour is a french identify, so on our menu and with our specials, we named them with a french theme, says Christiaens. “So now we have the Que Sera too.”

One other widespread drink is their peach mango smoothie, which is nice, tangy, and yummy even when it’s snowing.

“That is certainly one of our hottest smoothies, folks preserve coming again for it,” says Christiaens. “Even on days like as we speak, (when it’s snowing).”

A few of their widespread treats embrace the new chocolate cookie which is ideal when you’re a self-proclaimed chocolate connoisseur like me.

The recent chocolate cookie has an attention-grabbing again story and takes the work of not one, however two small companies to carry it to life.

“I reached out to Pandora’s Sweets proper down the road and requested them if I may use their sizzling cocoa combine,” says Christiaens. “So the new cocoa combine is contained in the cookie and contained in the frosting. It’s an unique Cafe Et Amour cookie, utilizing Pandora chocolate.”

Final however actually not least, Cafe Et Amour additionally presents gluten-free choices.

One in every of their hottest is the gluten-free raspberry cheesecake cookie, which is, dare I noticed it, ungodly good. It’s delicate and creamy, and you’ll’t inform that it’s gluten-free, even a little bit bit.

“Gluten-free has positively been a request for us,” says Christiaens. “We promote a ton of gluten-free stuff, so I all the time try to have 3 to five issues on the menu to rotate, to see what folks like.”

Be sure that subsequent time you’re in Rigby to go to the little pink trailer, Cafe Et Amour.

They’re positioned at 180 West Foremost Avenue and are open Monday-Friday from 6 a.m. to six p.m., and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Discover out extra about Cafe Et Amour on their Fb web page.