Papa Haydn’s

• Papa Haydn’s website

• Location: NW 23rd (restaurant row)

• Dessert for two: About $15

Hang around Portland long enough and somebody will suggest going to Papa Haydn’s for late dessert. That’s ’cause these guys do dessert like kangaroos hop. There’s a regular, non-sweet restaurant, too, and the food’s probably pretty good, but who knows? Nobody I know gets past the dessert case.

This week Mom decided to postpone her birthday party (and the cake) for a week and just do dinner out with whoever remained after sick kids, emergency business trippers and the like took their toll. I stopped off at the 23rd St. PH’s for three pieces of cake: hazelnut torte, raspberry gateau, and triple chocolate cake. ($24 for the three)

All three were dense, incredibly chocolatey and so rich and huge that each slice was enough for three people. My favorite was the hazelnut torte, but I could have tossed them all and just slurped the raspberry sauce that came with the gateau—-hoooooooooly cow.

I’m not a huge chocolate fan, so the triple chocolate cake was a bit too much for me but Mom, a world-class chocoholic, loved it.They’ve got non-chocolate stuff, too. I’ve never had any dessert there that wasn’t well worth the price.

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