Whenever I post this photo of the gold Buddhas from Bond Street Chocolates I always get 100 emails. There’s a good reason for that – these Buddhas are beautiful, little works of art. They’re also unique, reasonably priced and you get to feel good…
It’s always nice to receive a birthday dinner invite to a restaurant that I have never been to. Besides the obvious pleasure of sharing drinks and food with close friends, there’s usually an opportunity to order, taste and solicit opinions about, many different desserts. …
Valrhona chocolate mendiants: This gift is twenty dollars worth of class. It comes inside a particularly nice looking box and you get a few layers of milk and dark chocolate disks embedded with apricot bits, hazelnuts and pistachios. These aren’t just any chocolate disks, these…
There are really only one or two bakeries in the city where the pastries in a refrigerated case can match a plated restaurant dessert. Payard is one of them. Around the holidays when friends come to NYC from out of town and ask me where…
When Jacques Torres isn’t out fishing or thinking about sex he can still come up with great new chocolate-based treats. The seasonal pumpkin seed brittle is a perfect example. It’s really quite different from peanut brittle. It has a more mild flavor and seems slightly…
Bouchon Bakery’s Pain Aux Trois Chocolat is here and we are all over it with a write up because DessertBuzz is so on the cutting edge of New York City dessert offerings–what? It’s been out for almost a year? Oh well, better late then never.
