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| - I actually think this place is pretty good, especially for Madison, but the prices are really off-putting. For instance they do a very nice chocolate caramel tart here, but it is seven dollars. In comparison, Floriole, a not unknown bakery in Chicago, has a very similar tart of better quality for only five. Similarly, 3.50 for an espresso shot of hot chocolate seems a bit excessive.
So if you can handle the prices the good stuff here is the chocolate mousse which has a touch of alcohol to add a unique twist. The pistachio ice cream sandwich is tasty too, but does not actually use ugly cookies as implied. The aforementioned tart is good as well as the chocolate raspberry tart. Finally, the flourless chocolate cookie is actually excellent.
What is not good is the regular chocolate chip cookie which doesn't stand up to even the Tollhouse recipe. The ugly cookie has no theme and is just a bunch of stuff crammed into a cookie with some underwhelming pistachios. We also had a dark chocolate bar with pistachios that also had bad pistachios and a chocolate with no flavor. We didn't even finish it. Our friend said the macarons were decent, but they look so small.
Everything said, I would probably still come by occasionally since this place doesn't have much competition in Madison.
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