Chocolate Hazelnut Mousse Tart from Lula Cafe
Item Purchased: Chocolate Hazelnut Mousse Tart from Lula Cafe
Location Purchased: Lula Cafe / 2537 N. Kedzie Blvd. / Chicago, IL
Price: $7.00 + tax
Review: I hate to admit it, but I was a bit disappointed with this dessert. That is not to say that it was bad. I simply thought the cake part of the tart tasted a bit stale while trying to be crisp and wafer-like. Like a fortified Oreo cookie, the sides, top and bottom of the tart needed to be cracked before reaching the inner cream filling, of which I could have eaten an entire bowl. A typical chocolate mousse with both hazelnut flavoring and actual pieces of slivered hazelnuts inside of it, this dessert could be much better if it followed the rule of "less is more." Besides the stale tart with scrumptious filling, there is also a light and fluffy egg-flavored cream dolloped on top and a runny creme anglaise forming a pond in the plate below.
Lula gets points for serving up something I have never seen the likes of before, but this may be one dessert where they tried a bit too hard. I would have preferred a small dessert dish of the mousse by itself with a token wafer cookie or two to offset the rich flavors within instead of a crunchy exoskeleton to wince through before getting to the good stuff.
Rating: 2.75 / 5
Location Purchased: Lula Cafe / 2537 N. Kedzie Blvd. / Chicago, IL
Price: $7.00 + tax
Review: I hate to admit it, but I was a bit disappointed with this dessert. That is not to say that it was bad. I simply thought the cake part of the tart tasted a bit stale while trying to be crisp and wafer-like. Like a fortified Oreo cookie, the sides, top and bottom of the tart needed to be cracked before reaching the inner cream filling, of which I could have eaten an entire bowl. A typical chocolate mousse with both hazelnut flavoring and actual pieces of slivered hazelnuts inside of it, this dessert could be much better if it followed the rule of "less is more." Besides the stale tart with scrumptious filling, there is also a light and fluffy egg-flavored cream dolloped on top and a runny creme anglaise forming a pond in the plate below.
Lula gets points for serving up something I have never seen the likes of before, but this may be one dessert where they tried a bit too hard. I would have preferred a small dessert dish of the mousse by itself with a token wafer cookie or two to offset the rich flavors within instead of a crunchy exoskeleton to wince through before getting to the good stuff.
Rating: 2.75 / 5
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