November 09, 2007

New sweets: $25,000 sundae, more chocolate shops

Chocolate Week in New York seems the perfect time to round up the city's desserts news:

Serendipity 3 is now home to the world's most expensive dessert: the the $25,000 Frrrozen Haute Chocolate. Gothamist has pictures. (Their now-cheap-by-comparison $1,000 Golden Opulence Sundae is still on the menu.)

The New York Times hits the new chocolate shops: Upper East Side outposts for MarieBelle, (762 Madison Ave.,) and Vosges Haut-Chocolat, (1100 Madison Avenue;) fancy new Upper West Side digs for Jacques Torres, (285 Amsterdam Ave.;) and Roni-Sue's Chocolates opened in the Essex Street Market downtown, (120 Essex St.)

The same NY Times story notes that still-renovating Plaza hotel will get a "jewel-box version of Demel, a Viennese pastry shop founded in 1786." And when The Plaza's Palm Court reopens "by the end of the year," the head chef will be Didier Virot, presiding over breakfast, lunch, dinner, tea and brunch menus as well as "a new Champagne Bar in the lobby, and for the Rose Club, a lounge overlooking it on a new mezzanine."

Chocolate turkeys have returned to Dylan's Candy Bar.

Brooklyn's Trois Pommes (at 260 Fifth Ave.,) is the "Newest Great Bakery in New York," says Ed Levine of Serious Eats. (And see his full list of best bakeries in the city.)

New York dessert blogger Lovescool opens her own cafe/sweets shop: Amai Tea & Bake House, at 171 3rd Ave., map.

Barcelona-based candy shop Papabubble is now open at 380 Broome St., Racked reports.

The much-hyped chocolate Jesus is on display at The Proposition gallery through November 24.

Downtown Brooklyn sugar showdown: Applebee's across from Junior's Cheesecake is serving Cake Man Raven's red velvet cake.

Treats Truck on wheels gets some competition, the Dessert Truck.

Gridskipper has a map for the best black-and-white cookies in New York.

The Girl Who Ate Everything compiled a list of where to get macarons in New York.

And finally, cupcakes could become the official children’s snack for the great state of New York.

November 9, 2007 01:19 PM in Downtown, Foodology, Midtown, Shopology, Upper East Side, Upper West Side

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