The phrase "dessert counter" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific area in a restaurant, café, or bakery where desserts are displayed and served.
Example: "After finishing our meal, we headed over to the dessert counter to choose our favorite treats."
Alternatives: "dessert display" or "sweet station."
The hotel also has a casual restaurant, Feast, with Asian and Western dishes, and, as a bonus, a take-out dessert counter.
The people who really can't have gluten will usually be the ones salivating over the dessert counter with a wistful look in their eyes.
In Princeton, Efes, though a full-service restaurant, has a fast-food feel: harsh lighting, a massive drinks cooler, clunky furniture and a combination dessert counter and cash register station.
At the fromagerie, there were plaudits for the freshly made burrata ($12.80 for 8.8 ounces), and over at the dessert counter the white-chocolate-and-hazelnut Bavarian sponge cupcake ($5.80) went over well.
"The morning we opened, I had a sign on the door saying that we would open at 9 o'clock," Ms. Abraham said as she sat at a little square table across from the glass dessert counter in her shop one afternoon last fall.
Gresham Kávéház, for a more casual lunch overlooking the river, serves Hungarian and "contemporary" dishes anything from a sour cherry soup to chicken paprika, with a dessert counter worthy of lengthy study.
Dessert counters look like Willy Wonka fantasies, with chocolate fountains and giant revolving ice-cream vats.
Her small kitchen, where she creates her desserts on one counter, is dominated by an 8x8 foot "reach-in" cooler.
At the counter, for dessert, tiny, ornate cannoli and aragostine demand further investigation.
You can also select your dessert from the pastry counter adjacent to the restaurant.
The other, a nook reserved for pastry and cocktails, has a wet bar, dessert oven and ample counter space.
