Chez Fonfon's Chocolate Pot De Creme is a pure pleasure.
By Jan Walsh
Photography by Beau Gustafson
I have never had much of a sweet tooth. I can easily say, "No" to most desserts. But at Chez Fonfon the first thing I see each time I enter the door is dessert. Fresh baked tarts, a towering cake and other specialties of the day line the antique, wooden server and the small, white marble-topped table beside it.
I have never had much of a sweet tooth. I can easily say, “No” to most desserts. But at Chez Fonfon the first thing I see each time I enter the door is dessert. Fresh baked tarts, a towering cake and other specialties of the day line the antique, wooden server and the small, white marble-topped table beside it.
But as tempting as these desserts appear, it is the dessert chilling in the frig— Chocolate Pot De Crème—that calls my name. When it comes to desserts, it is chocolate I crave—and always have. From a (large) chocolate malt at the Dairy Queen to my grandmother’s chocolate fried pies, and all the chocolate cakes, pies, cookies, and ice cream in between—if it was chocolate, it was mine.
And none is more tempting or more satisfying than the Chocolate Pot De Crème at Chez Fonfon. It is the ultimate chocolate pleasure. This silky chocolate custard arrives in a chilled, white, coffee cup resting on doily-lined saucer. A chocolate biscotti rises from the top of a cloud of whipped cream. And bite after bite, Chocolate Pot De Crème is heaven on spoon.