Recently I was invited to attend a media tasting at Ramekin – a dessert cafe in the lovely area of Los Feliz. Now you know me and dessert so, of course, I went. And I took my #1 sister and fellow dessert lover, Shannon.

Ramekin takes the same approach to dessert as a restaurant does to entrees. Courses (if you choose), fresh ingredients, and items made to order. When we arrived we had a selection of choices for our first course – ice cream.

 Whoah Nelly! What to order?

Both were absolutely delicious. With all the ice creams made in-house, how could they not be?

After our apertif we sat back, relaxed, and were treated to a parade of made to order treats.

Strawberry Brick Toast – this was my favorite selection. The “toast” was a subtly sweet pound cake topped with chocolate sauce and fresh strawberries. Oh, and underneath was a generous scoop of vanilla bean ice cream.

Next came the chocolate bread pudding. Ordinarily, I’m not a fan of bread pudding – too smushy and slimey for my taste. Not this. The chef intentionally deconstructed the notion of bread pudding. Instead of soft and mushy it’s firm and crunchy. A vast improvement! Now this is one bread pudding I would have again (and again and again…).

Then came the blueberry soup. To that I thought, “blueberry soup? I don’t know…” I shouldn’t have been so skeptical. It was so, so yummy. Light, tart, sweet…an amazing combo. It comes with a dish of homemade granola, a scoop of creme fraiche ice cream, and five delectable meringues. Mm, mm, mm.

Overall, I’m loving this dinner like approach to dessert. I’m excited to go back and have another multi-course dessert.

 

Ramekin

1726 N. Vermont Avenue

Los Angeles, CA 90027

open Sun – Thurs 11am-11pm, Fri-Sat 11am-1pm