Flavour of the Year: five desserts with a delicious, savoury twist
Flavour of the Year: five desserts with a delicious, savoury twist
Dessert has gone savoury with celery on ice cream, marrow in pudding and parsnips with pastry. Here, five salty-sweet ways to finish a meal.
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- 201421
- <strong>Buca’</strong>s Rob Gentile fills a candied eggplant shell with eggplant mousse, blood orange cells and dulce de leche. On top: spiced chocolate sauce. $12. <em>604 King St. W., 416-865-1600. </em>
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- Eggplant Tart
- Eggplant Tart
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- 201420
- <strong>Canoe’</strong>s deconstructed tart brings whipped parsnip pastry cream, caramelized pears, crispy fried parsnip peels for crunch and a drizzle of birch syrup. $12. <em>66 Wellington St. W., 416-364-0054. </em>
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- Parsnip Pastry
- Parsnip Pastry
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- 201425
- <strong>Farmhouse Tavern’</strong>s chèvre ice cream is topped with oddly delicious cubes of celery, yams, purple potatoes, parsnips and carrots, all candied in clove syrup. $6. <em>1627 Dupont St., 416-561-9114. </em>
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- Candied Roots
- Candied Roots
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- 201423
- For the sticky toffee pudding at <strong>Skin and Bones,</strong> dense fig cake is ladled with salty, bone marrow–enriched caramel and finished with whipped cream. $7. <em>980 Queen St. E., 416-524-5209.</em>
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- Marrow Pudding
- Marrow Pudding
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- 201422
- <strong>Rose and Sons’</strong> bizarre combo of five-year-old cheddar, chili-zinged peanut butter and maple bacon on crostini balances sweet, salty, spicy, sharp, brittle, creamy, crunchy and crumbly. $8. <em>176 Dupont St., 647-748-3287. </em>
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- Pb, Bacon and Cheese
- Pb, Bacon and Cheese
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