EAT - Dessert Truck Works

The first thing you might notice when walking into Dessert Truck Works on the Lower East Side is that it's decidedly not a truck. It shares similarities with the Dessert Truck, most notably the desserts, but with one important difference. This distinction between food truck and pastry shop had to be made in 2009 when New York's ridiculously restrictive truck vendor permits basically put The Dessert Truck off the streets. And so goes the old adage, when NYC closes a permit, it opens a cafe.


Everyone knows the best things are always sold out of a truck - food, Discmans, truck parts. So why not top notch pastries? The truck in question - initially put on the pavement in 2007, closed in 2009 and now reopened until the Man shuts 'em down again - sprung forth from the inspiration pastry chef Jerome Chang found in the Taiwan's street food scene, where, like some backwards opposite world, the restaurant-quality food is sold on trucks at street prices, and hamburgers eat people. The Dessert Truck combines Chang's passion bold but simple flavors, artisan sensibility and fair prices with the streetz.

Each shareable-sized main course dessert rolls $6 deep, which is helpful in eliminating price as a factor for selection, and you can't possibly be disappointed. The unique style of Pavlova with almond meringue, verbera-peach sorbet, whipped creme fraiche and fresh blueberries is just as fancy tasting as it sounds. The Nutella-filled yeast-risen Brioche donut holes are like sugar dumpling chocolate bombs.The specialty Goat Cheese Cake (with a moat of rosemary caramel, topped with fresh blackberries) will re-ignite your love of cheesecake and goats.

Their philosophy of affordable accessible artisan may have started with the Truck, but the cafe carries it on just as well. Not since Giuliani cleaned up Manhattan have you been able to get anything on the street for $8 as sweet as their "Jolly Meal value deal," a large dessert, a macaroon and a small coffee (by Counter Culture), and this is a treat you can share with your friends.

Dessert Truck Works [dt-works.net]; 6 Clinton St. at E. Houston; Lower East Side.
Truck located at 3rd Ave and St. Marks. Follow their twitter and facebook for truck updates.

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