Ms. Terhune previously worked as the pastry chef at 312 Chicago, and her Atwood Cafe desserts are a high point of the meal.
Bread is back on its game with its simple desserts ($5.50), like excellent cheesecake, dense chocolate mousse and light, creamy, sweetened ricotta -- cafe desserts, exactly as one would expect.
The restaurant, with nearly 250 seats, is a place of many parts: a cafe, a dessert bar, a dining bar and a more formal dining room, albeit without tablecloths.
FaIrway Cafe 2127 Broadway, New York NY 10023 (b/n 74th and 75th; map); 212-595-1888 Service: Haphazard and slow, but improving Must-Haves: Foccaccia, onion rings, Boston lettuce salad, lamb chops, marinated chicken, bone-in ribeye Cost: $26, $31, and $39 three-course prix fixe menus--or you can just have a damn good burger with fries for $12 at dinner Grade: B/B+.
Simplicity, based in the Meguro district, also runs its own cafe-bar-dessert-shop-cum-showroom called Higashiya, overlooking the Meguro River.
On the fifth floor is Terrace 5, a dessert cafe.
For a soft serve sundae (or that banana split), swing by the counter of the dessert cafe.
(The next closest is believed to be in Virginia, although there is a dessert cafe, Magura, in Forest Hills, Queens).
Don and Chika Tillman, right, who opened ChikaLicious, a dessert cafe, several years ago, have opened a satellite across the street, called ChikaLicious Puddin'.
More than 150 vintners and 90 chefs offer samples and pairings, with a seafood and oyster bar, and a dessert cafe serving after-dinner wines as well.
