A WITTY DESSERT. Pictured here is Latin Lover, a confection served at the midtown restaurant Asia de Cuba. When I first viewed it at table level, I didn't see that the dessert is also an illustration. But the aerial view reveals a bifurcated Valentine's heart (one side is a flourless chocolate mousse cake; the other is a coffee anglaise) pierced by a shard of white chocolate, bleeding an intense strawberry sauce. The spiraling curlicue (which contains the coffee anglaise) is a chocolate sauce.

I'm assured this feast for the eyes is gluten-free. Sweet!

Photo: David Marc Fischer