Bill
I attacked this cake with the traditional horizontal fork approach. It repelled my plastic fork in a glorious statement that it was a cake of more serious substance.
The cake was wonderfully dense, packed tightly with chocolatey truffley goodness. It would only allow itself to be eaten by shaving off slices. The cake's texture was so uniform and its flavor so deep and rich that it was like an artist captured the Victorian era in a dessert. This cake deserves our divine rating.
3276 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20007-3624
(202) 342-2500
Google map & reviews (3.84/5.00)
Yelp (3.5/5)
TripAdvisor (5/5; #2 shopping place in DC)
Bill
Dean & Deluca is one of our favorite dessert places, so this is the first of several reviews. While the store/cafe has several great and divine desserts, not everything is up to that standard.
Dean & Deluca has been missing its divine triple chocolate brownie for months. It has recently been reincarnated as a cookie.
The basic concept mixes two darker chocolates with large chunks of white chocolate. The brownie's intensely deep dark and white chocolate flavors and fantastic texture contrasts are largely lost in the cookie version. The relatively flavorless crunchy edge, which the brownie completely avoids, extends way too far into the center. This leaves precious little of the cookie to enjoy the great flavor and texture mix. That center is also much thinner than the brownie version. This cookie deserves our good rating.
3276 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20007-3624
(202) 342-2500
Google map & reviews (3.89/5.00)
Yelp (3.5/5)
TripAdvisor (5/5; #3 shopping place in DC)
