| rev:text
| - Been frequenting dessert places with a group of friends lately, so Saturday evening found us here at Sweet Esc. It's a small place with seating for only about 20 people, but fortunately we were late enough for there to be sufficient vacancy. The place is simply decorated and looks a bit like a pop-up, contrasting from 0109 which had an open-concept kitchen and a at-home crowded feeling. Sweet Esc's kitchen is neatly tucked away, keeping the atmosphere clean and simple.
Their hot plate special features a choice of brownie or Belgian waffle, with a scoop of ice cream in the flavour of your choice (from the daily selection), syrup in your choice between green tea, vanilla, and chocolate, and a topping of your choice (marshmallows, brownie bits, seasonal fruit, chocolate chip cookie chunks, etc.). Their menu promoted other varieties of similar items - some sort of baked item with ice cream on top, with sundae fix-ins. There's also a daily tart selection and daily cakes.
I was excited to see some unique ice cream flavours and the fact that it was ice cream, since the recent trend seems to be towards gelato. I ha their coffee milk tea ice cream which was reminiscent of the Hong Kong classic. A crowd favourite is their earl grey ice cream, but I'm not much a fan of the flavour in general, so I took a pass. My waffle was soft and kept warm by the hot plate, and when I poured the chocolate syrup over it sizzled and burnt a bit - a great snapchat or short video photo opportunity if you're into that kind of social media. The scoop of ice cream was a good, satisfying size that held up to the heat creating that intriguing hot-cold contrast all on one plate. One downside is the inevitable slow burning of everything due to the hot plate, not at all ideal for a slow eater. To further the struggle, be careful you don't burn yourself, which I can only imagine is a common occurrence if you have say, long hair, too many people at the table squished together, or you're trying to share with others, or even if your plate wasn't set in front of you just right. The wooden board supporting the hot iron plate does help, but accidents could happen.
Observing my friends' orders, the seasonal fruit turned out to be pineapple and strawberry which was skimpy in portion. Their green tea sauce was an interesting flavour contrast, which I imagine could be good with particular ice cream flavours.
For the price of $8.50, the treat was good to try on occasion and for aesthetic appeal. Sweet Esc doesn't come close to the top of my list of dessert places as there were no significant points apart from the generously sized scoop of ice cream in a unique flavour. Just for the one scoop would've came to $4-$5, which is a bit steep for just some ice cream with no fix-ins or anything of the sort. The lack of allure also means their signature just didn't stand out, and nothing else on the menu popped at me to attract a return visit.
|
![[RDF Data]](/fct/images/sw-rdf-blue.png)
![[cxml]](/fct/images/cxml_doc.png)
![[csv]](/fct/images/csv_doc.png)
![[text]](/fct/images/ntriples_doc.png)
![[turtle]](/fct/images/n3turtle_doc.png)
![[ld+json]](/fct/images/jsonld_doc.png)
![[rdf+json]](/fct/images/json_doc.png)
![[rdf+xml]](/fct/images/xml_doc.png)
![[atom+xml]](/fct/images/atom_doc.png)
![[html]](/fct/images/html_doc.png)