Bill
Chocolate cake is a steakhouse classic, so it's usually your best bet for dessert at a steakhouse. The Palm's Big Chocolate Layer Cake meets those high expectations.
It's generously topped with a chewy fudge frosting that continues in a thinner spread down the back, where cake crumbs adorn it. Five additional tiers of frosting slice through the cake layers. The cake portion is impressively moist for such a large slice. It's served with a drizzle of chocolate sauce, fresh whipped cream, and fruit, all mostly for presentation.
This cake is a unique and indulgent combination of textures. The crumbs on the back form a cushion to flatten out the sharp chocolate taste of the fudge icing. This dessert earns our great rating.
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Bill
Burgers are the new tapas in DC, and at least this trend tends to bring milkshakes with it. Unfortunately, Bobby's Burger Palace's Vanilla Caramel Bourbon milkshake comes nowhere near living up to the excitement about the restaurant overall.
Instead of incorporating the caramel flavor evenly into the shake, some caramel ribbons swirl through the glass. This caramel sauce can add intriguing texture and flavor to an ice-cream dish eaten with a spoon, but it's largely lost in a dish enjoyed through a thick straw. This shake lacked the deep, indulgent vanilla flavor that should be expected in a vanilla shake. The only traceable flavor was the bourbon. The problem wasn't that the bourbon was so strong or voluminous that it overpowered the other flavors; it was that the other flavors were weak and didn't blend well. This left the shake tasting like chilled bourbon and sugar rather than a milkshake. Skip this dessert.
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