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Sorbet with sparkling wine at ChikaLicious. (Photo: Courtesy of ChikaLicious)
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Falai (View Menu)
68 Clinton St., nr. Rivington St.; 212-253-1960
Former Le Cirque pastry chef Iacopo Falai's eponymous restaurant serves up treats like passion-fruit soufflé; a dark, rum-soaked baba cake; and cherry-size profiteroles drizzled with chocolate sauce.
Café Sabarsky (View Menu)
1048 Fifth Ave., nr. 86th St.; 212-288-0665
This high-minded Viennese café has a whole selection of strudels and chocolate tortes to compliment its luxurious, old-world coffee.
Dessert Truck (View Menu)
University Pl., nr. 8th St.; no phone
Line up in front of an NYU dorm to buy chocolate-bread pudding, cream-stuffed bomboloni, and ultrarich Valrhona hot chocolate from a retrofitted postal truck.
ChikaLicious (View Menu)
203 E. 10th St., nr. Second Ave.; 212-995-9511
The specialty at this ingeniously realized niche restaurant is dessert, and dessert only. Co-owner Chika Tillman and her assistants whip up creations like sorbet floating in sparkling wine and wheels of fromage blanc “cheesecake” on shaved ice.
Chocolate Room (View Menu)
86 Fifth Ave., nr. Warren St., Park Slope, Brooklyn; 718-783-2900
Cake, pudding, sorbet, tea, even beer—it's all chocolate here. The signature dish is the chocolate fondue, rich and not too sweet, warmed by a votive candle, with homemade marshmallows for dipping.


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