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Better Than Sex

Better Than Sex is a dessert-only restaurant in Key West that’s known for it’s over-the-top sexual references.

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That’s apparently supposed to be a black “member” entering a white booty. Classy!

Anyway I had a “peanut butter perversion,” which is a super soft peanut butter mousse cake with chocolate covered pretzel bark. REALLY good, but can get heavy despite the lightness of the mousse.

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My wife had this banana crepe cake, which was really good as well.

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We also shared this unique brie and chocolate grilled cheese. I liked this because it wasn’t as heavily sweet as the other items.

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This place does a lot of interesting drinks too, like “rimmed” glasses of wine or root beer floats with chocolate and caramel:

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The staff here is incredibly chipper. It is SO chipper that it will ruin your sex mood if that’s your goal for coming into this place. The server kept saying things like “super awesome,” and “girlfriend” (when talking with the ladies at the table).

Amorino

My wife and I were invited to another awesome Tabelog event – this time at a new gelato parlor on 18th & 8th called Amorino.

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This place is known for its beautifully crafted cones that look like flowers, and their unique flavors like pistachio and biscotti.

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If you see this fellow, be nice! He’s the owner, Federico:

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Our task was to rate a bunch of flavors on a scale of 1-5 using this nifty score card:

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The flavors came around in little sample cups like this:

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And we were permitted to ask for pretty much anything else that we wanted to try. Check out this wild mix:

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My favorites were pistachio, yogurt and biscotti.

At the end of the tasting, there was a little blind taste test going on:

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I got 3 out of 4 correct, with my one mistake being a tech-fault. I wanted to write raspberry but since it wasn’t passed around as a sample earlier, I just didn’t think it existed. So I wrote strawberry instead. Lesson: Always trust your taste buds! I was right, but I was wrong. Oh well.

Afterward, they passed around some of their awesome gelato-filled macarons:

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These were really good! I definitely recommend hitting this place for a tasty and unique treat.

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AMORINO
162 8th Ave.
New York, NY 10011

City Kitchen

City Kitchen is a small second floor food hall that has some pretty decent proprietors in it. All of the food sold within is pretty much meant for take-out as opposed to dine-in, though there are a few tables available and bar seating along with windows.

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I’ve decided to lump all of my reviews for each place within into this one post for easy access.

First is Kuro Obi, the ramen joint at the far end.

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This is an offshoot of Ippudo. They offer the karaka-men spicy pork and chicken broth ramen. It was good. The noodles were the wavy egg style, and all the ingredients within were great. I just wish for $13 I got more than two thin slices of the pork belly.

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Next up was Whitman’s for a burger and fries.

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The burger was great – cooked nicely to medium, good pickles, mayo coverage, lettuce and tomato. Excellent bun (potato) as well.

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The fries were lackluster. Maybe I should have upgraded to blue cheese fries. They were just a little greasy and not crispy enough.

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For dessert get some “shaved snow,” An ice-cream textural spin on shave ice.

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We had the banana cream, finished with some coconut shavings and condensed milk (and Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal).

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Nab some donuts from Dough on your way out. But if you see the famous hibiscus flavored ones, get as many as you can. They sell out quick.

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We tried lemon poppy and chocolate this time. Both were amazing, doughy, big, soft, and flavorful even if not fresh out of the oven/fryer. But I was bummed that the hibiscus was all gone by time we finished our ramen and burger. Ahh what the hell… I’ll throw in some shots of the hibiscus donut from way back when I first tried them at another location:

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CITY KITCHEN
Row NYC
700 8th Ave.
New York, NY 10036

Spot Dessert Bar

Up on the third floor of a K-town food mall, this little dessert outpost serves up some really nice treats. The Vietnamese coffee cupcake was pretty good, though I didn’t get a lot of that distinct chicory and sweetened condensed milk flavor that I expected.

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The other items were pretty good though, like these things which I thought were churros with icing at first. HA! They were just eclairs

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Everything else under the glass looked delicious. Lots of green tea stuff, as you might expect at an Asian style bakery. Also some really tasty ice creams/gelatos.

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SPOT DESSERT BAR
11 W. 32nd St.
New York, NY 10001