Sour cherry bread pudding and apple cobbler were both on the heavy side.
Desserts like marble halvah, cream cheese brownies, orange poppy seed poundcake and chocolate cherry breadnut pudding, all made in-house ($1.99 to $3.99), are no less tempting.
The deliciously moist peach and dried cherry bread pudding with warm rum sauce and the chocolate ganache tart topped with a scoop of almond-dusted vanilla ice cream were especially impressive.
The food was inventive, within reason, including a not-too-sweet cherry bread pudding to accompany excellent duck breast, breaded "tater tot" flavored with grated black truffle and white truffle oil, and a halibut entree brightened with grapefruit and a fabulous watercress vinaigrette.
Thanks to their experiments, we can enjoy potatoes, cherries, and tapioca pudding.
There was sushi, cream, carrots, glazed cherries, and chocolate pudding, a strange combination but it was no big deal, other than the showering.
A series of videos show how to make Choi's Oreo-crusted chicken tenders, Voltaggio's Oreo tortilla chips and lemon Oreo shandy and Tran's Oreo-and-cherry-soda bread pudding.
Because (as I'm sure you knew) coing means quince, blended here with elderflower and white cherries; the combination of pudding, fruit, chestnuts and wine was gorgeous.
Another Danish Christmas classic, rice pudding with cherries ($9), is wonderful, rich with almond slivers that almost melt into the rice; another dessert, honey cake with tangy oranges and yogurt sauce ($7) is great with the strong coffee brewed to order all day.
Offerings ranged from duckling Montmorency, a half a duck served with cherry sauce and sweet potato pudding, to Gedampfte rinderbrust, a staggering slab of boiled meat.
If beer's more your thing, check out their gold medal winners from this year's International Beer Challenge: Cambridgeshire golden ale with chicken and chorizo empanadas, Scottish craft lager to match chargrilled calamari, and, for pudding, their Belgian cherry wheat beer is divine with chocolate sundae.
