Assorted macarons. The flavours are as follows (clockwise from top): Sea Salt Gula Melaka, Earl Grey Milk Chocolate, Dark Chocolate, Thai Iced Tea, Rose, Peppermint Milk Chocolate, Strawberry, Yuzu, Salted Caramel, Pistachio. The first thing that struck me was how tantalisingly fragrant they were. Your nose is not required to…
Black Gold – three layer truffle chocolate mousse, caramel, cocoa sorbet, basil, and hazelnut nougatine. Like a United Colours of Benetton concept in their bringing together of distinctly different-tasting (and contrastingly-coloured) elements. It’s a grassy/caramel/bitter chocolate ménage a trois that somehow works when you do a vertical fork-dive, yet the…
Chocolate molten lava cake, flambé with Sambuca and Grand Marnier and served with vanilla ice cream. The cake was fairly competent and the lava thick and oozy, but the alcohol – two separate glasses brought to the table and poured over the cake in a tragic flop of a pyrotechnic…
Mad About Dolce – creamy cafe dolce tainted with hazelnut chocolate, with a nutty ring around the edges of the glass. Essentially a persuasive Baileys imitation as prepared by a sugar-obsessed spammer. I wished a Baileys version existed somewhere – being intoxicated and not self-aware would be the preferred state…
Choc Rocher Cheesecake. Rich, indulgent and only cheesecakey in its gooey texture. The Oreo-esque crumbs hiding below the cake assist in taking the edge off the sweet hazelnut richness. Essential that you share, otherwise it would be a richness that eventually segues to misery. On an unrelated note, my dining…
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…
Choco ginger gelato and raspberry sorbet. Managed to try out the gelato at Plus39 Gelato before their soft launch next week. The raspberry sorbet was intense in its sourness and a wallop of natural, fruity goodness right there in your mouth. The revelation, however, was the choco ginger – dark,…
Chocolate banana waffle – chocolate waffle, caramelized banana, vanilla bean ice cream, salted caramel sauce and nutella truffle powder. Essentially a chocolate pound cake (!) with vanilla ice cream and sweet, gooey goreng pisang. The shift from fluffy chiffon to dense cake felt like a Lionhead Rabbit transforming into a…
Black Pearl – gianduia syrup, organic salt and chocoballs, with an added handcrafted macaron. A significantly less milky experience than I had with the Green Light flavour, to the extent that the heavy-handed combination of Nutella-esque sauce and Milo-esque balls and powder dominates the experience and virtually eliminates all traces…