"People actually shrieked in recognition when they saw them, " the pastry chef said, though the cupcakes bittersweet chocolate-glazed, coffee-laced devil's food with a white chocolate mousse center weren't Hostess products at all, but clever simulacra made with top-quality ingredients.

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Try the roasted lamb loin with tomato lemon gnocchi, and then order the bittersweet chocolate with peanut butter mousse for dessert, and you'll see why Chef Howard Foer's cuisine earned OpenTable's diners' choice award in 2010 and 2011.

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The moment, like the chocolate, was bittersweet.

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You can still get earth moving chocolate gelato but it is because those who make it tend to use extremely high quality artisanal cocoa, and chocolate gelato inevitably leans towards the bittersweet end of the spectrum.

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