5 to Try: Chocolate Desserts
By Joshua Hinsdale, Houston Editor
Satisfy your chocolate craving with a decadent cake, melt-in-your-mouth pastry or another sinful dessert at a top Houston restaurant or bakery.
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Chocolate Designs
5000 Westheimer Rd Ste 602, Houston, TX
Swiss formula chocolates made daily, plus hand-dipped truffles, toffee and more than 23,000 molds and sculptures to create one-of-a-kind custom desserts. -
The Chocolate Bar
1835 W Alabama St, Houston, TX
The stunning trompe l'oeil "pizza" is so realistic, you can almost smell the pepperoni--except it's made entirely of multicolored chocolate. -
Marble Slab Creamery
1131 Uptown Park Blvd, Houston, TX
For a more casual chocolate fix, try the chocolate amaretto ice cream with nutty mixins at this Uptown ice cream parlor. -
Empire Cafe
1732 Westheimer Rd, Houston, TX
This hip coffehouse makes Houston's most delicious French chocolate cake. -
Ruggles Cafe Bakery
2365A Rice Blvd, Houston, TX
No caloric corners are cut in the white chocolate macadamia-nut tart or chocolate truffle cake with Grand Marnier mousse center.
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Kraftsmen Baking
4100 Montrose Blvd, Houston, TX
Superb but inexpensive coffee, soups, sandwiches, breads and sweets in a meticulous cafe setting. -
Benjy's Restaurant
2424 Dunstan Rd, Houston, TX
Upscale casual favorite in the Rice Village for innovative new American cuisine, a stylish lounge and weekend brunch scene.
