So far I'm 0 for 5 on places I've seen on the Food Network. My DH wanted to try Citizen Cake, and I was wary, but decided we could go. It was 4 pm on a Saturday and there was some event happening at 5:30 so we could "only stay for 45 min. and they weren't serving food". So then you sit down, then get a menu for *drinks only* and you have to get up from your seat and look at the case where they have all their desserts. Then you order the dessert at your table. I chose the Midnight Magic, which looked like chocolate cake. My DH chose something that I thought was a chocolate tiramisu. They were practically the same -- only the chocolate tiramisu thing had a vanilla type cream and the Midnight Magic was enrobed in chocolate. They were both basically chocolate mousse cake, and not worth the money or calories. Mine tasted like it had gone bad or something had flavored the outside chocolate, and the cake seemed old.
I also tried two of their chocolates -- the peanut butter which was okay, basically chunky peanut butter in chocolate; and the caramel which was bad. See's makes much better caramels.
We were both really unhappy with the dessert, and the idea that there were so many conditions on what and when we could get stuff there. I wouldn't go back and wouldn't recommend it.
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