La Camibi from Mad About Sucre – Corsica almonds creme, Algeria hazelnut crunch, Madagascar vanilla mousse, almond sponge cake topped with candied hazelnuts. Essentially an ice cream dream. The mousse has the texture of a light, classy ice cream, the sponge was lighter than a fairy’s wings, while the hazelnut…
Luna de Miel (Moon of the Honey) from Mad About Sucre – French spring honey mousse, blood orange and caviar, savore sponge, and short pastry. While the initial vertical fork dive delivered a seemingly singular blood orange message, samplings of the various individual components revealed their respective charms – the…
Leite creme com farofias flutantes em nuvem de caramelo – vanilla custard, egg white “clouds” in caramel. Essentially a dessert consisting of a foamy marshmallow relaxing in a pool of smooth, eggy custard with a massive spider-spun caramel golden sugar web serving as a luxurious canopy, although the disgruntled spider…
San Domingue – a jewel box with rum emulsion, chocolate mousse, caramelized plantain and a Brittany crust. Essentially the chocolatey equivalent of Christmas morning. The jewel box reveals liquid rum emulsion by way of in-mouth squirtage once you bite it, and you get to chew the chocolate box with the…
Açorda de Bacalhau – bread “porridge” with cod, extra virgin olive oil, fish stock and coriander. Tastes like comforting rice porridge, but with random soft bread crust bits and the occasional whiff of fermentation which tease that you aren’t eating rice. The cod was fresh and chewy, but this Portuguese…
Passioné – passionfruit and a blend of cheeses on a sponge and coconut sable base, served with cocoa nibs. The cake was smooth and rich, with no bitchy upstaging drama going on – the passionfruit dominates for the first few seconds in your mouth but eventually cedes to the cheese…
Coco Citron – coconut mousse, lemon curd and coconut sablee tart, with crushed sugar diamonds. So light, I’m floating on clouds. But then some of the crushed sugar diamonds crackled and popped loudly in my mouth and I was so startled, I fell all the way down. 3.7/5 Mad About…