To Eat or Not to Eat? My Review of the Chocolate Mousse at The Chocolate Room.
This review will be ranked on a 3-star review. Price/quality and quantity.
It’s thick, it’s sweet and it’s succulent. Let me introduce to you a fine confectionery. The chocolate mousse cake at the chocolate room in cobble hill NYC is a premium chocolatier with the prices to show for it.
Quality.
The cake is covered with a thick chocolate crust with a chocolate slab on top. Once you pierce through the milk chocolate shell you reach the luscious mousse. I need a minute to talk (gush) about this mousse. It's light, it's airy, it lingers on your tongue like a tease and regretfully melts away as you can’t help but smack your lips and swallow it down. But don’t do that.
I am an experienced chocolate mousse eater and I am now smart enough to know how this delectable treat should be savored. Pierce your folk through the thick chocolate shell and use that crust as a spoon to scoop up the mousse. The chocolate sauce that is sprinkled atop the shell is a sharp and wonderful accompaniment to the subdued sweetness of the mousse. The light and heavy combine into a combustible burst of sweetness and flavors in your mouth. It can make you swoon a bit. (I do)
Once you get through all this lusciousness you reach a pinch of gooey caramel. I really like this caramel. It’s a very nice touch that almost tricks you into thinking well I can’t possibly eat anything sweeter, but oh you can. Because this is just a pinch, it’s a perfect fold for the thick hard lava cake that my guy Brian will usually sprinkle some chocolate sauce under to create a solid and satisfying piece of chocolate cake serving.
For quality, this gets 1 star.
Quantity and price.
You get a pretty decent amount of goodness with this treat but to be honest I am mad about the pricing. They used to price this at a decent $10 and increased this to $13 in the last 6 months. (This acted as my leading indicator for inflation getting worse.) I wouldn’t pay $13 to sample this. I think $11-$12 would have been a happy balance. At $13 this tempers my desire to sample this more often (which probably is a good thing), and this makes me mad.
They’ve also become stingier with the chocolate sauce, something I don’t appreciate as well which is why I only visit over the weekend when Brian works. So for quantity, I give it 1 star, for the price I take away ½. At a solid 2.5 stars, you can’t go wrong. If you ever try it let me know!
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