WHAT WE LIKE Onion soup, Caesar salad, calamari, pork ribs; Kobe beef burger, lamb stew, black cod, mahi-mahi, gnocchi Bolognese; panna cotta, triple chocolate tart, coffee crème brûlée.
WHAT WE LIKED Spaghetti squash pomodoro, fried crispy Araucana egg, Prince Edward Island mussels, stone fruit salad; fennel sausage pizza, organic chicken half; Key lime tart, chocolate coffee bombe, bread pudding.
Then there are lemon and linzer tarts, coffee and pound cakes, cookies, brownies and rugelach.
He was referring to a current fashion, with Nordic roots, for tart, acidic coffee.
My mother, though a scientist with an academic career, made a different dessert every night of my childhood: lemon tart and chocolate cake, wonderful coffee custard with bittersweet chocolate hardened like a winter lake on top, and hot apple pie with light custard sauce.
Desserts include a floating island with passion fruit coulis, a powerful warm chocolate cake, and a coffee tart with Sambuca whipped cream.
And I relished a chocolate and coffee tart, which was more intense, although less flamboyant, than a floating island also among the desserts.
WHAT WE LIKED Olives and Marcona almonds, gazpacho, warm Granja and white bean salad, codfish croquettes, sautéed shrimp in garlic sauce, arugula salad, Ibiza salad; Bomba rice with chicken and chorizo, fried sardines; rice pudding, grappa and coffee tart.
RECOMMENDED DISHES Pâtés and terrines; boudin blanc; Croque Monsieur; Croque Madame; frisée aux lardons; mussel bisque; coq au vin; spinach; chocolate-coffee tart.
If you're daring enough to forego pumpkin all together, you can wow your guests with wonderfully unpredictable desserts like spiced honey cake with caramelized figs or upside-down banana-coffee tart.
She tells me she will bring my coffee and tart upstairs to me.
