I don't know if there is more than one, but the Chicago Melting Pot I went to had really cool dark booths so you were sort of separated from other groups. I think it would be lots of fun with 6+ people.
There's one here in town. And it is fun. I even stole a bottle of their wine & garlic seasoning--it totally kicks ass on steaks on the grill.
I had a really great Bananas Foster in Austin, TX once. The pub down the street makes a stellar bread pudding.
Dessert tonight is an Entemann's donut which is also pretty fucking good.
New York Magazine had an article about a year ago which was basically "Why does every restaurant in the city serve essentially the same menu?" That chocolate cake with the gooey center was one of the "on every menu" dishes mentioned. Still yummy. The place where I first tried it served it over raspberry coulis with hazelnut ice cream.
Ohh, I could never discriminate. All of the other desserts would be upset.
CI, bourbon gelato sounds delightful, but it's not more caloric than ice cream. It contains less fat, so enjoy it with less guilt!
Congratulations to Burrell, her DH and Franny! Welcome to the world, Isaac!
Isn't the answer to that question simple when the food in common is delicious, trendy, and genre appropriate? Because you can...
Apparently it's beneath contempt to order creme brulee. I don't care. I LIKE creme brulee.
Yeah. Turner's Fallen Chocolate Cake can become the acid washed jeans of the dessert world, but I'll order it with pride, as long as they make it.
Isn't the answer to that question simple when the food in common is delicious, trendy, and genre appropriate?
Yeah. Most of the categories of "menu items" in that article seemed way too broad. Like, I think one of the other things that was on every menu was "salmon with some sort of cream-like sauce."
The passion fruit mousse was the best I ever had, but for a non-sweet-toothy person I've run across a lot of other good desserts:
2) baked candied orange at Marena's in Memphis
3) Sin (a chocolate truffle cheesecake topped with whipped cream and cherries) at Piero's in Jonesboro AR
4) braised figs in sweetened rosewater at Marena's in Memphis
5) cherries jubilee at the Court of Two Sisters in New Orleans
6) poached brandied pear at Marena's Gerani (new owners) in Memphis
7) bananas foster at the steakhouse inside Fitzgerald's Casino in Tunica, MS
8) black marquis chocolate truffle cheesecake at a cake shop in the Riverwalk mall, New Orleans
Apparently it's beneath contempt to order creme brulee. I don't care. I LIKE creme brulee.
The restaurant at one of the hotels in DC (the Four Seasons? Whichever one it is on Penn, about halfway between Georgetown and the Foggy Bottom metro) has a dessert that's three mini creme brulees: one vanilla, one chocolate, and one coffee. It's incredibly good.
Timelies all!
Welcome Isaac and congrats to the Burrell family!
:tries to ignore dessert talk:
:glares at kosher for Passover cookies:
sigh...
