[ankle_brains]

how many of you get dessert after a nice dinner at a restaurant? even if you are filled up, do you get it anyway and just take a bite and stop? waste of money?

i normally do not get dessert.

what about you?

[SouthPaW1227]

I only get it if I'm sure I can eat all of it...which is about 50% of the time.

The absolute ONLY exception is "The Cheesecake Factory". Even if I'm filled to the brim, I absolutely cannot leave there without buying a slice of cheesecake...if you've ever had the honor of eating a slice, you'd understand. Of course, it's so expensive I only eat there a couple times a year, usually only for very special occasions, but it's heavenly.

[Hawkeye_a]

It depends.
If the resturant has a speciality thats preety hard to replicate anywhere else, like a special cheesecake or a cobler(spell?). ill get it.

if theyre gonna give me a scoop of generic ice cream and charge me for a wedding cake, id rather goto a baskin robins after dinner instead.

but yea, i almost never order desert.

[Kilbey]

My wife and I usually go to a local ice cream parlor afterwards. It gives us time to settle our stomachs and the quality is a lot higher.

[Rain]

Nope. We're either too full to think about dessert, or we'd rather wait a bit and have dessert later at another place that's cheaper or have more options.

[Dubya's Dealer]

Here in Paris, if they have something extremely rich and chocolatey on the menu me and the gf usually split one, with espresso.

That is of course, if the restaurant doesn't suck and we're dying to get out of there.

In Italy if they have home-made tiramisu on the menu we usually get that...

[ghost_flash]

iwhy do iyou ask iso many iquestions?

[wdlove]

My wife and I always feel at the end of the meal. Dessert doesn't even sound good. Occasionaly when we eat at the Cheesecake Factory, we will order a cheeseckae to take home for later.

[subego]

Share 'em.

Even if you aren't full, do you really need more than 3 or 4 bites?

Including the Graham cracker crust Frango-mint ice cream pie they have the Walnut Room at Marshall Field's...

Yum! I can't take any more!

[mindwaves]

I never ever have desert at the end of the meal. Most of the places I go to don't even offer dessert!

[Mediaman_12]

Originally posted by Rain:
Nope. We're either too full to think about dessert, or we'd rather wait a bit and have dessert later at another place that's cheaper or have more options.

Later? Other Place? When I go out for a meal to a nice restaurant it's usually quite late after when we have finished the main corse, and going somewhere else (even if there was somewhere open that would just serve 'desert') would require an additional Taxi ride.
Coffee on the other hand is a different matter. Fill the machine with water, add new filter and grinds, switch on just before you leave, and have a Guaranteed* quality cup of coffee waiting when you get back.

*My coffee machine has a 'thermos' flask type insulated jug instead of a hot plate so however late I am/we are, the coffee is never burned and is still hot

[Buck_Naked]

I want ankle-brains liver with a glass of wine for dessert.

[funkboy]

Originally posted by SouthPaW1227:
I only get it if I'm sure I can eat all of it...which is about 50% of the time.

The absolute ONLY exception is "The Cheesecake Factory". Even if I'm filled to the brim, I absolutely cannot leave there without buying a slice of cheesecake...if you've ever had the honor of eating a slice, you'd understand. Of course, it's so expensive I only eat there a couple times a year, usually only for very special occasions, but it's heavenly.

Yes, total agreement with the Cheesecake Factory.

I never get dessert, I'm always plum full when I finish.

[Rain]

Originally posted by Mediaman_12:
Later? Other Place? When I go out for a meal to a nice restaurant it's usually quite late after when we have finished the main corse, and going somewhere else (even if there was somewhere open that would just serve 'desert') would require an additional Taxi ride.

What time do you have dinner? Taxi?? None of you drive?

Friends and I usually have dinner before we do whatever it is we have planned for the evening. After that, laaater that evening after the game/show/etc, we'd drive to a dessert place for dessert and chat till we're either tired, or the place closes

[wdlove]

Originally posted by mindwaves:
I never ever have desert at the end of the meal. Most of the places I go to don't even offer dessert!

I have never been to a resturant that the waitress after the meal, "Would you like to see a dessert menu?"

I ate today at 1:22pm. Got the question from Kate, "Would you like to see a dessert menu. It is now 6:40pm EST and I still feel full.

[Kenneth]

Originally posted by Buck_Naked:
I want ankle-brains liver with a glass of wine for dessert.

Not cow-brains?

I never order dessert after a dinner.

[scottiB]

Usually after dinner is an espresso and a ruby port.

Unless I'm at home and it's Folger's nuked from the morning brew and Boone's Farm.

[undotwa]

Rarely. I have sweet things when I feel like it, also I feel it spoils the taste of the dinner one ate.