In concert with companions willing to share desserts, you won't have to decide among passion fruit flan, tapioca cake drizzled with condensed milk and the prune-topped coconutty pudding called manjar ($3.50 to $3.80).
Arriving right at sundown, just before 6 45, they stayed past eight, sipping wine and sharing dessert.
Our shared dessert of cherry mousse with "apricot soup" offers a great flavour hit.
The bill for four of us, including a bottle of Brazilian champagne and a shared dessert of chocolate ice cream and wafers, was $29.
With a decent bottle of wine (and they have quite a few), expect to pay around €40 a head for two courses and a shared dessert.
Come the revolution, when women finally stand up and scream, "I'm tired of sharing dessert," they will follow this body into battle, not some Joan of Arc (skinny, sure, but the kid was 17).
Within minutes of wedging ourselves onto the last bar stool, a friend and I were sharing dessert with two French women on one side and sparring with a good-looking guy just in from Los Angeles behind us.
Along with soup or a salad, a glass or two of bargain wine and a shared dessert like the gloriously rich, cinnamon-infused apple crisp, a full meal with tax and tip can come in well under the price of that veal porterhouse.
