An expert in frothy, ornate desserts one could imagine on Marie Antoinette's dinner table, she provides genteel counterbalance to the swaggering Hollywood, a master bread baker with stiffly gelled hair and a goatee.
At the counter, for dessert, tiny, ornate cannoli and aragostine demand further investigation.
Most desserts arrived dauntingly ornate.
Ornate but not stuffy, wild but not sloppy, Hassenfeld's show is dessert for your eyes.
Fortunately the fairly lengthy lineup of desserts rises above retro, regressive chic to also embrace ornate concoctions like chocolate chiboust with a cassis core on a disc of chocolate short pastry.
He paints from memory, even though his desserts are often more detailed than those in the best food magazines, with lemon fillings or ornate pink roses or raspberries in a perfect circle inside a piping of pink frosting.
Between these gems, The Philharmonic Pub is a magnificent, ornate, and yet homey public house that served the best fish and chips I've ever had and a bewitching treacle dessert.
Some entrees were ornate.
Album art had become ornate.
