Try the roasted lamb loin with tomato lemon gnocchi, and then order the bittersweet chocolate with peanut butter mousse for dessert, and you'll see why Chef Howard Foer's cuisine earned OpenTable's diners' choice award in 2010 and 2011.

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It has the texture of a slightly melted Cadbury Creme Egg, with a shell made of crumbled cookies instead of chocolate and filled with refreshing lemon-bergamot sorbet instead of oozing sugar.

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You can omit the white chocolate without much harm and lime or orange can be swapped for the lemon zest.

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