Review: Nectar Desserts

[Si_FlyGuy]

Nectar Desserts
1216 9 Ave Se
(located in Inglewood, on the second floor of a building almost directly across from Kane's Harley Diner)
http://www.nectardesserts.com/

Food - 9.25/10
Ambience - 8.25/10
Service - 8/10
Value - 8.5/10

Tasted:
1. Cream on Cream ($12) paired with Domaine de Durban’s Muscat Beaumes de Venise ($8)
2. Chocolate Experience ($12) paired with Domaine Du Traginer Banyuls ($8).

Completely out of this world creativity and taste. It's nice to finally see a high end dessert place, and I truly hope that they do well because a lot of higher end restaurants consider desserts to be an afterthought, resulting in sub-par offerings. It's an especially great place for a date.

You'll be amazed at how well chipotle on hot chocolate tastes, the delicacies of sea salt on caramel chocolate, and at the freshness of their macerated raspberries on the French influenced fromage blanc cheesecake.

Owner/Pastry Chef Rebekah Pearse has also worked in several of my favourite restaurants in Calgary, including Il Sogno, Mercato, and River Cafe; as well as apprenticing in France after graduation from Sait's culinary program.

[HybridTheory]

Hmmmm wow, that place definitely sounds interesting. Did it just open up recently?

[GQBalla]

whoa crazy. definatly have to take the gf to this place.

[Isaiah]

Good review! Will check them out.

[Si_FlyGuy]

They've been open for 3 weeks or so I've been told, and the best part is that they're open until midnight on some days. I can't wait to go back.

[89coupe]

If you want to hit up a Restaurant that serves out of this world desserts, check out Tribune on 8thave and 1st.

[SilverGS]

Will have to check it out and compare it to the dessert places in NY.

[BebeAphrodite]

Oo, I'm glad theres finally more options than the Chocolate Bar.

[sdiep]

Thanks for the review. It looks pretty tasty too.

[max_boost]

Awesome! Can't wait to check it out.

[HybridTheory]

After seeing this thread, I got curious and decided to try the place out

Food - 9/10
Ambience - 8.25/10
Service - 8.5/10
Value - 8/10

I had the Pavalava (sp?) It was meringues with a passion fruit mousse, chantilly cream and mango. Everything just went together so well. I didn't try it with the wine pairings, maybe I'll do that next time around.

And I agree with what Si_FlyGuy said, its nice to finally see a dessert place that offers more high end desserts rather than just the standard brownies and cheesecakes. It's definitely a nice place to take a date since its quiet and cozy. I'm definitely going back to try out some other stuff.

[01RedDX]

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[98GA 2.4]

I have been here three times and I find it gets better every time I go. As long as you open to the idea of going to a place for deserts and some very tasteful wine or tea/ coffee. This place is awesome. Also I got the hours mon- sat 10am-12am.

Highly recommend!

[Kritafo]

i love pavlova but usually make it myself, it's very easy and looks great.

I will be checking this place out. It's hard to compare when your best friend is a pastry chef from France...

[max_boost]

Food - 9/10
Ambiance - 10/10
Service - 10/10
Value - 8/10

Went there tonight with my GF after reading reviews and persuasion from her.

Both her and myself were pleased with the layout of the place. We both enjoyed the mismatched furniture and agreed that the decor suited the shop's offerings.

I ordered the Apple Brulée and my GF ordered the Pavlova. I was impressed at the creativity and presentation of both dishes, in particular the Apple Brulée. It was an interesting take on a dessert "classic." My GF was thrilled with her choice, the selections of passion fruit curd, Chantilly cream and fresh mango were wonderful compliments to the sugary, chewy meringues.

The service was top-notch. Both our server and the owner/chef made themselves readily available to answer any of our questions and cater to any of our needs.

I will definitely be returning. The take-out selections were equally as enticing, as both the presentation and taste were perfectly matched.

Of note is their home made ice cream and cheeses. I am looking forward to trying them on a return visit.

[Altezza]

I wonder where (and under who) she apprenticed while in France. Interesting...I'll have to try it this place out and do a wine pairing while I'm there.

Good to see that there's an alternative to Manuel Latruwe.

[Isaiah]

I tried them last week and had the apple brulee and don't recall the name of the second dessert but it was chocolate served with a little espresso size cup of cocoa on the plate.

The desserts were good, Rebekah came out to say hello, and the decor was appropriately suited to the ambiance.

Having said that, I was slightly dissatisfied with the selection, and would like to see greater variety from which to choose in the future.

[James]

Nice Review, I have to go check this place out. I use to work for the Custom Cabinet making company that built everything inside. Delivering all that stuff up those stairs sucked big time! lol.

[Isaiah]

Rebekah and Nectar were featured on Breakfast Television the other day.

[Altezza]

I tried this place the other day. I asked the waitress a lot of detailed questions about the desserts, Rebekah, Rebekah's background, Rebekah's training, where/who she apprenticed, etc.. Of course the waitress didn't know all of the answers. She said she'd have Rebekah come speak to us when she returned.

When Rebekah returned, we noticed the waitress specifically point us out to her. We thought, great, we can speak to her now. However, Rebekah snobbed us out the entire evening. She didn't come over at all to speak to us. It's not like it was very busy, perhaps 6 other people there at the most not including us. And she just sat at one of the empty tables. We just concluded she probably didn't apprentice under anyone famous and that her experience in Europe wasn't that glamorous, LOL.

Overall, the desserts were alright. Nothing spectacularly out of this world but they were pretty good. Service was excellent. Prices were pretty good as well.