A trademarked creation by BISTRO 6050 with selected tree nuts (almonds, cashews, walnuts, pecans, NO peanuts) and dried cranberries roasted “WILD” or “MILD” with the 4 C exotic spices (cumin, cinnamon, cayenne pepper, clove). Ideal to munch on while “keyboarding” on your cell phone; a healthy alternative to popcorns too. Either tastes are also available enrobed with maple syrup, to literally spice up your salad dressing for instance.

INGREDIENTS: Walnuts, Dried Cranberries (Cranberries, Sugar, Sunflower Oil), Almonds, Cashews, Pecans, Unsalted Butter (Pasteurized Cream, Natural Flavorings), Sea Salt, Cayenne Pepper, Cinnamon, Cumin, Cloves.
Contains: Milk, Tree Nuts (Almonds, Cashews, Pecans, Walnuts).

About BISTRO 6050

Defined in the local press as a pan-global bistrot, spotted by a food correspondent as a hidden gem within Chicago’s Northwest Side renaissance, BISTRO 6050 is YOUR snacks and desserts destination in Chicago, Illinois. 1/3 café, 1/3 world market and 1/3 snack bar BISTRO 6050 offers a cross-cultural culinary adventure with homemade street food inspired by food cart flavors from around the world.

BISTRO 6050 offers a no-border cuisine menu with recipes stimulated from street food from around the world ; this reflects in a natural and neutral interior design [black & white, metal-wood-glass]. Every single menu item is freshly homemade and health conscious about oil, sugar, salt or spices ; for instance the empanadas are baked as opposed to fried and the ICE CREAMS are homemade with the suitable minimum of sugar.

The variety in the menu represents different ethnic influences through a selection of as many as 12 flavors for BISTRO 6050 core item, the homemade baked EMPANADAS identifiable with a little icon on the crust. Some of these flavors are also served in the savory CRÊPES. One will notice that the crêpes are just of the appropriate size and thickness to keep them moist ; hence the label “ French velvet” crêpe for their particular aspect that suits ideally the sweet crêpes too with banana and Nutella, with chocolate and roasted coconut flakes to name just a few.

Additionally, BISTRO 6050’s beverages list covers COFFEES –Italian espresso or Belgian filter coffee- milkshakes and SMOOTHIES amongst which the infamous “ube freak” with its specific thick purple from the taro fruit, and BUBBLE TEAS with tapioca pearls popping in one’s mouth to release lychee syrup. Add to the 22 different flavor teas such as ginger-peach, berry cabernet and orange flower and many more, and innovative hot or iced tropical fruits edible teas.

Prime home crafted ICE CREAMS turn out to be BISTRO 6050 customers favorite craving : no less than 21 flavors are currently presented, all of them with natural ingredients and with as less sugar as possible. The assortment includes halva pistachio, FERRERO-ROCHER, rose with edible petals, real vanilla from Madagascar and a recently shaped choco-Nutella-macadamia

BISTRO 6050 also shapes its ‘Chicago-born’ CHARCOAL NUTS™, a unique line of nuts –NO peanuts added- roasted with exotic spices to pair with a hard drink or a beer, or to take along to nib on during a movie show.

This trademarked brand offers selected tree nuts like almonds, cashews, pecans mixed with cranberries, roasted with exotic spices –amongst them the 4 C –cayenne, cinnamon, clove and cumin- in two original lines : ‘wild’ for the ones similar to the default red pepper in recipes or mild for a more subtle enrichment of the other flavors ; both options are also available in an ‘hybrid’ version when enrobed in maple syrup to enhance the contrast between sweetness and pungency. These are ideal to literally spice up a salad dressing. The Original CHARCOAL NUTS™ are available in 28oz silver poaches, while the Maple Syrup Enrobed CHARCOAL NUTS™ are conditioned in handy sealed crystal plastic cups of 4.5oz