Last minute cooked apple pie, cinnamon ice cream, and calvados (apple brandy). Essentially a delightful puff pastry which had a prior good roll in a bed of sugar granules. The cinnamon ice cream was rather spicy, the apple brandy appreciatedly strong and the caramel-esque sauce added sweet gooeyness to the…
Baba au Rhum from Sugarhall, with jamaican rum syrup and whipped cream. Sugarhall is all about the rum, and here they certainly don’t hold back – the rum is generously present (I’ve been to stingier joints where they probably use one squirt from a pipette or similar science class apparatus)…
Cha-Yen bingsu from Chick and Ken – Thai tea glace, home-made red rubies, honeyed corn flakes and Thai tea gelee. Essentially surprisingly good Thai milk tea ice kachang, and somehow by magical diffusion or similar scientific mechanism the Thai milk tea flavour and scent is distinct and detected in every…
Strawberry sorbet served with prosecco. Essentially a valentine to the Rossini cocktail. The strawberry sorbet was sublime, and truly tasted like (icy) fresh puréed strawberries…or that could be what my rather buzzed mind was telling me, as the prosecco was as ruthlessly efficient as a ninja in accomplishing its mission to…
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,…