i get the concept of ultra-stylish decor and expensive tasting desserts that are supposedly works of art with the exotic combination of ingredients, flavors along with beautiful plating. but honestly, my trip to 2am dessert bar was a serious downer. methinks this place tries to be too many things at once - an upscale bar/ glitzy restaurant concept mixed with a homely, friendly, kinda contemporary (sophomore-ish) atmosphere ultimately clashed with each other's sensibilities and eventually negated one another.
i took offense with the fact that they shoved four of us into one of those two seater-couches, making for a incredibly uncomfortable experience because there wasn't really any possible configuration that could make you feel comfortable - people either had to sit without a back support at the front of the couch whilst their friends took the back portion, else you squeezed four people side by side on the couch. utterly uncomfortable. to their credit, one server came up to us and lamented that we looked very uncomfortable, but then nothing else was done for the entire 40+ mins duration.
next, food wise. i think i was honestly too annoyed to bother taking any shots of the food, but i do agree the plating was nice. however, the lighting was so awfully dark that there really wasn't a point - i couldn't really appreciate what was being plated and to be honest, i couldn't even distinguish the ingredients on my plate. the four of us had opted to share a basil white chocolate (shiso, seagrape, passionfruit puffs, $15), arguani h20 (valrhona chocholate, 72%, evian, caramel mousse, praline, yuzu sorbet, $14) and some pistachio black sesame ice cream thingy.
my issues with the food? i think desserts are meant to be satisfying, to induce a eventual feeling of languid contentment, merriment and mirth to compensate for all that fat you just took in. to me, the desserts mentioned above failed on this front completely. yes, the ingredients were innovative, so maybe i was being plebeian and couldn't really appreciate them for what they were, but the weirdness of the flavors didn't exactly combine well and everything was so miserably small that you really did feel like you were biting into portions of air to try to sate your hunger. take the arguani h20 for example, purportedly their bestseller here - the varlhona chocolate block was a hard slab of chocolate that was difficult to crack into and was paired with little drips and dollops of the other "ingredients" that honestly didn't really go well with the chocolate base. i would give them credit that the valrhona chocolate tasted good, once you actually manage to break the slab itself, but then.. is that credit to them? or to valrhona? i don't know.
all in all, a confused and utterly not-worth-it place to satisfy your dessert cravings. maybe go there for a drink or two during an off-peak hour if you are feeling rich, but don't expect to enjoy yourself on a friday night out if u want some nice desserts.
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