By Alexi Zentner
Broken hearts can now be mended. Lafayette Square’s dearly departed Chocolate Bar is reincarnated and significantly improved, with a full bar and a less scattershot approach toward dessert (although you’ll still be eating it in the same cramped space). While many of the plated desserts are seasonal, pray that the chocolate fudgy cake with coffee butter cream and a scoop of coffee ice cream stays on the menu. The light coffee cream, which is sprinkled with a dusting of cocoa powder, covers a firm, dense cake that is, if not exactly fudgy, certainly not spongy. It is big enough to share, but why would you? Have your date get the Baileys’ chocolate brownie served warm and topped with ice cream and caramel sauce, or one of the other 20-plus options.
1915 Park, 314-241-8100, open Tue-Sat from 4 p.m.-1 a.m.
