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Chef Isabel Coss’s Guide to the Best Desserts in D.C.

From nostalgic flavors that taste like childhood to bold, modern sweets, Isabel Coss reveals the D.C. dessert menus she craves most—where pastry is anything but an afterthought.
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Named a Best New Chef in America by Food & Wine, Isabel Coss helms the pastry program at Georgetown’s neo-bistro Lutèce and serves as co-executive chef at hearth-powered Mexican restaurant Pascual in Capitol Hill. When she’s not in the kitchen, here’s where she goes for sweet relief.
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Washington, United States
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I love pastry chef Paola Velez’s Baked Alaska shaved ice. I’ve always dreamed of a place where you can have a good cocktail in one hand and a spoon to eat great dessert in the other. This is that place.

Washington, United States
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I love Erik Bruner-Yang’s spot on H Street NE. I love the desserts, but also the pastries in the morning, such as the canelé and their super good egg tart.

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Angel Barreto may be a savory chef, but he cares so much about dessert and always comes up with beautiful desserts that are fun, homey, and creative. They’re always big—like everybody’s personality in that restaurant.

Washington, United States
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Rochelle Cooper is so inspiring. She has an amazing dessert program and is always staying on top of it, putting out a new special or a new flavor of ice cream.

Washington, United States
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Susan Bae’s cakes are so good. All her desserts are beautiful but also balanced with interesting flavors, like yuzu pastry cream, green curry sponge, or pandan panna cotta. And she has a beautiful pastry team.

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I love desserts when they don’t feel like an afterthought. They have an ice cream that tastes like White Rabbit candy, which I grew up eating in Mexico, so it tastes like childhood to me.

Queen’s English

Queen’s English

3410 11th St NW
Washington, DC 20010
United States

Anju

Anju

1805 18th St NW
Washington, DC 20009
United States

Maketto

Maketto

1351 H St NE
Washington, DC 20002
United States

Moon Rabbit

Moon Rabbit by Kevin Tien

927 F St NW
Washington, DC 20004
United States

Providencia

Providencia

1321 Linden Ct NE
Washington, DC 20002
United States

The Duck & The Peach

The Duck & The Peach

300 7th St SE
Washington, DC 20003
United States

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