HomeFront is open around the clock, and it would make the perfect post-dessert romantic outing for at least one of the parties involved.
The post-dessert chocolates are made at the restaurant; the cheese cart is dead-serious; and the wine list is inventive.
As part of the all-out effort, Brasserie 8 1/2 prepares the way for dessert with pre-dessert and punctuates the experience with a post-dessert.
In those after-dinner hours, parents give up on wrangling their children, who scurry about on a post-dessert sugar high, and neighboring tables drift into discussion about politics and family — the sorts of things not usually shared among strangers.
"I have changed grappa from a Cinderella to a queen," said Ms. Nonino, 65, at the end of a recent lunch here, over a glass of that post-dessert delicacy.
They're not very different in effect from all those amuse-bouches, amuse-gueules, pre- and post-desserts, and petits fours so beloved of modern chefs.
In that post-dessert lull, you suddenly leap up from the table and say, "OK: DISHES!" then take some plates and start cleaning.
The substitutions have more nutrients and will hit your blood sugar more slowly than white sugar, so you don't fall into that post-dessert coma.
"They said that Chuck and Nancy had done some post-dinner spin, to go along with the post-dinner dessert, about what the President actually agreed to on DACA.
Why didn't I ally myself with them and skip off for post-theater dessert feeling superior?
Post's desserts feature familiar favorites such as bread and butter pudding as well as a superb passionfruit sorbet among a selection of ices.
