Ice cream, sorbets, and gelati. They're hardly the main focus of restaurant desserts, but often play an important supporting role, without which the dessert would not be nearly as good. From a quenelle of bold sake ice cream to pair with tempura rice pudding at 15 East, to ginger-lime ice cream and sticky toffee pudding (finished with fresh grated lime zest!) at Veritas, click through to find the five restaurant desserts we love where the ice cream is just as good as the star of the plate.
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We know, we know—it's been
years since cupcakes first hit New York. And Serious Eats is not the sort of blog that breathlessly covers every new cupcakery in the city. But at some point, we came to the realization that, when asked where sold the best cupcakes in New York City, we didn't have an answer. And that just wouldn't do. So we tracked down New York's best.
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[Photo: Kathy YL Chan] The Chocolate Marquise ($9) from Spot Dessert Bar in the East Village is a three-part affair. Working our way from top down is the chocolate marquise itself, a glitter-dusted rectangle, made from a wealth of...
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[Photo: Kathy YL Chan] Spot Dessert Bar is best know for its dessert tapas, Pichet Ong's creatives takes on sweets such as the Yuzu Eskimo . But for the times when you'd rather not sit for a full service...
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[Photo: Kathy Chan] There's plenty of salt in these cookies, and even more Maldon sprinkled on top. Crunch, crunch, Spot's Peanut Butter Cookie ($1.75) is crisp from end to end with plenty of crushed peanuts between bites. Peanut butter...
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[Photo: Kathy Chan] We brought you the first word on Pichet Ong's new East Village "Spot" last week and promised we'd be back with more on the housemade sodas, which have since made their way on to the permanent...
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"Asians love glitter." —Pichet Ong [Photo: Spot] Normally I'm not a dessert guy, but yesterday I stopped by Pichet Ong's Spot, which Kathy reviewed earlier today, for one of the chef's seasonal desserts: jackfruit cake with rum toffee and coconut....
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[Photos: Kathy Chan] My heart was beating so fast when I left Pichet Ong's newly opened East Village dessert shop Spot yesterday evening, I had to find a bench and sit down for a minute. My fault. I had...
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