{"id":4491,"date":"2012-05-18T20:03:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T00:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/endoedibles.ifm.yji.mybluehost.me\/?p=4491"},"modified":"2012-12-02T08:51:16","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T13:51:16","slug":"co-co-sala-washington-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/endoedibles.com\/?p=4491","title":{"rendered":"Co co. Sala, Washington DC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Gist: http:\/\/www.cocosala.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Why: I was walking back to my car en route from Elisir and I\u2019d heard good things, the weather was warm and the sidewalk had seating \u2013 who needs more reason that that for coffee and dessert?<\/p>\n

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The setting and service: Loud as hell inside, calm but far too close to the cars and smokers outside, and service so incompetent that you have to repeat your order twice\u2026and yet Rene still failed to serve me the 5-course dessert experience (includes a cheese plate and intermezzo.)<\/p>\n

The food and drink: $6 Coffee, and $22 3-course dessert experience.<\/p>\n

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Latin American French Press \u2013 Described only as \u201cLatin American\u201d but apparently a blend by Ceremony this was a good two cups of coffee, the roast medium and smooth with a thick body and a bit of fig flavor with undertones of chocolate.<\/p>\n

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Churros with Dulce de Leche and Chocolate: A pair of hot cinnamon churros with a 75%\/25% shot of molten caramel and chocolate this was served as an amuse bouche and with the donuts crisp on the exterior and soft within it would be hard to find any fault in it aside from, perhaps, the fact that there was far more of the sauce than necessary; a good problem easily remedied by a teaspoon to scoop out what was left.<\/p>\n

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A Sticky Situation: My selected dessert, a decision made after much debate, would prove to be an excellent one despite an obvious delay in delivery that had the ice cream half melted on arrival. Featuring piping hot sticky toffee pudding cake with a chocolate tuille and cr\u00e8me fraiche at one side and ginger caramel ice cream resting atop cocoa nib crumble on the other, both drizzled with brown butter toffee sauce this \u201ccake and ice cream\u201d plate was definitely sweet but avoided the being overly so through the use of the bitter chocolate and hefty ginger notes; an unexpected twist that worked beautifully. Never one to complain about something being too sweet and generally a fan of sticky toffee pudding I have to say that although non-traditional this was really quite impressive.<\/p>\n

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Raspberry Chocolate Lollipop and Lemon Chocolate Ganache: Two mignardises, the first quite pleasant and well balanced while the later simply did not fit my palate, I can\u2019t say these plus the two churros justified the $10 upcharge versus ordering the Toffee Pudding a la carte\u2026not at all, actually.<\/p>\n

The Verdict: Confirming the rumors, Chef Tiptur\u2019s take on traditional desserts ranging from France to England to Mexico and beyond is an interesting spot, but with the interior deafening and the outside sporting a bit more traffic than I\u2019d prefer I can\u2019t say I\u2019d rush back \u2013 a sentiment I hold for the comparatively priced and overly loud Mindy\u2019s Hot Chocolate in Chicago. Its good, but there is better dessert to be had with far less \u2018scene’ and cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Gist: http:\/\/www.cocosala.com\/ The Why: I was walking back to my car en route from Elisir and I\u2019d heard good things, the weather was warm and the sidewalk had seating \u2013 who needs more reason that that for coffee and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[817,28,309,13,153,12,310],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-co-co-sala","category-coffee","category-dc","category-dessert","category-ice-cream","category-vacation","category-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/endoedibles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/endoedibles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/endoedibles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endoedibles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endoedibles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4491"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/endoedibles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4502,"href":"https:\/\/endoedibles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4491\/revisions\/4502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/endoedibles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endoedibles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endoedibles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}