Junior's will offer free cheesecake or layer cake when you order a lunch
In celebration of National Dessert Day on Friday, October 14th, and the publication of Junior’s Dessert Cookbook, Junior’s is offering a free slice of its famous cheesecake or slice of its skyscraper layer cakes with the purchase of any dine-in lunch or dinner entrée on that day at its four locations: Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, Grand Central Terminal and Times Square in Manhattan, and MGM Grand at Foxwoods in Connecticut. Junior’s website has more info. Related: SeriousEats NY rates NYC’s cheesecakes.
The gold Buddha is a specialty of Bond Street Chocolates
Bond Street chocolates is just one of the many DessertBuzz favorites to be participating in NYC Chocolate Weekend from Oct 14-16. Other participants include Jacques Torres (all locations), L.A. Burdick, Chocolat Michel Cluizel, Ronni Sues and NuNu chocolates in Brooklyn.
New York City Chocolate Weekend
There will be discounts and free samples. If you visit the website you can print out a map and plot out your own personal chocolate walking and tasting tour.
The beautiful Michel Cluizel Chocolate
Chocolate Weekend NYC is all about celebrating New Yorkers love for chocolate–and showing off the most gourmet and best chocolate we have to offer. One of the main goals is to connect people to the small businesses who shape and create our favorite food!
Chocolate penguins from L.A. Burdick
The best chocolatiers all on one map for one weekend. Go here for more details.
Jacques Torres: Dark chocolate meet pumpkin seeds - perfect for October
NYC Chocolate weekend? How did I not know? Of course I know that there are nearly endless fine chocolate establishments in NYC…but it is tragic that I am so close yet so far this weekend.
Left by Victoria (District Chocoholic) on October 14th, 2011