Fourth and final part in my dessert tour!  Wow, I’m a slow blogger – I’ve been back from NYC for 3 weeks and I’m just finishing up my blog posts!  This section features fabulous, gorgeous, over the top DESSERTS!

Dessert Stop #1: Lady M Confection

Lady M Desserts

the dessert: Lady M Mille Crepes, strawberry fueille mille

the assessment: Gorgeous confections, Gorgeous store, Gorgeous display, Gorgeous ambience… HORRENDOUS SERVICE!!  Their service was so bad, I didn’t eat there in protest!  The servers are pretentiously snobby and never smile.  Never Smile!  How can people never smile?!  I don’t get it.  They had plenty of tables available while we were there, but none for a party of three, so they couldn’t seat us.  I don’t know why they couldn’t add a chair to a table for two; we told them we didn’t mind squeezing.  Since the wait was too long, Helen and Colleen ordered desserts to go.  I didn’t order anything, bc they were so evil.  Helen and Colleen thoroughly enjoyed their desserts, but they thought the cakes were a bit pricey. 

Strawberry Feuille Mille

Dessert Stop #2: Dylan’s Candy Bar

the dessert: assorted candy

the assessment: OMG I LOVE THIS STORE!!!  This store (the 5th ave. location) is now one of my all-time favorite stores ever!  Not only do they sell candy, and chocolates, they also carry clothing, accessories, and cosmetics!  I love it!  And the design of the store is SO FUN – everything is in extreme colors, super bright and happy!  And it smells like sugar.  There’s a superbeyondcute food bar upstairs, and you can even host parties there!  Wish I had known about that before my birthday passed!  Oh, well, next year.  I can’t wait for the Los Angeles location to open!

Non-edibles at Dylan's

I was so infatuated with their Ooey Gooey Bar, I ate everything I bought there in one day, and had to go back the next day for more!  The Petit Fours are to die for!  Soft, vanilla-y, white chocolate-y, fondanty, perfection!  I have insane love for petit fours in general, and these are amazing!  The Ooey Gooey Bar also has other creative goodies, like Chocolate Coconut Stacks, Candy Covered Pretzels, interesting chocolate barks, etc.  I was also extremely smitten with the fudge at Dylan’s Candy Bar.  They have every possiblity imaginable, from Cookies ‘n Cream to Rocky Road to Salty Caramel Nut.  I wish I had taken pictures, but I ate all the evidence…

Even the website is fun!

Dessert Stop #3: Serendipity

Forbidden Broadway Sundae - Blackout Cake, Vanilla Ice-Cream, Hot Fudge, White Chocolate Syrup

the dessert: Forbidden Broadway Sundae and Mint Frrrrrozzzzen Hot Chocolate

the assessment: OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!!!!!!!!

SO WORTH THE HYPE!

Are you drooling yet?

Serendipity definitely has the craziest, most over-the-top desserts.  The confections are so creative, so beautiful, so artery-clogging…so perfect!  It took us SIX hours to actually get a table there.  We first put our names on the 2 hour waitlist at 4pm, but then we realized that our tickets to The Lion King were actually for 6:30 pm, not 8pm, as we originally thought.  So we dashed over to The Lion King, and then dashed back to Serendipity.  We got our names on the waitlist again at 8:30.  After an hour of waiting, and with at least another hour and half of waiting to go, we decided we had to switch tactics.  So… we conned the host.  And befriended the cashier.  And…got a table by 10pm.  YAY US!!

Notice how Helen is still taking pictures of her Frrrrozen Hot Chocolate while Dorothy has already devoured half of her sundae?

And it was so, so, SO worth it.  The desserts are over the top, the ambience is whimsical, the service is fantastic… LOVE IT!

Dessert Stop #4: The Plaza Hotel

We didn’t actually get a chance to eat at the Plaza Hotel (we were way too stuffed), but we had a wonderful time looking at their gorgeous desserts and taking pictures with Eloise.  Just wanted to share pictures of the desserts Eloise got to eat at the Plaza!

Serendipity and Dylan’s Candy Bar are MUSTs for any trip to NYC!

Colleen, Eloise, Dorothy, and Helen at the Plaza

Photos courtesy of Helen!  Visit Helen’s blog for her take on our dessert tour.