Sweets Raku is all about being personal and contemporary. Each patron will be given an edible menu held together by a ring and served with a side of apricot sauce. It is a very unique visual presentation but unnecessary to finish. Listed on the menu is a prix-fixe three course menu. My friend split the three course with mango sorbet, Mount Fiji, and cream puff.
Our first course was the mango sorbet which arrived in a scoop with a generous strip of mint jelly down the middle. Any mango lovers would enjoy this smooth sorbet with a blatant and tangy flavor. Mount Fiji was a chestnut cream cake with thin slices of chocolate wafer pieces. The flavors were delightfully light but I'm generally not a fan of heavily-creamed desserts. Our last course was the chocolate cream puff with vanilla custard and a side of strawberry and mango jelly. The tangy jelly pieces was a good contradiction of the sweet cream puff which was freshly baked.
We were so pleased with the above that we even added another dessert, the Stella. It was a strawberry tiramisu with seasonal raspberry sorbet. Rather than being a typical tiramisu sprinkled with coffee powder and flavored with cocoa, it was done so with strawberry and a much lighter mascarpone cheese. It was beautifully formed like a flower.
With dessert made fresh before our eyes, a $19 prix-fixe three course dessert menu is definitely my thing!