Dear Rick Bayless

Dear Rick Bayless,

I have enjoyed your entrees every time (well, all but once), but sadly your desserts are not on my top 10 list =*(

I love XOCO...the sandwiches are wonderful.  However, their desserts are not.  I had their churros, and they were so awful I had one bite, discarded them, forgot to take a picture (note: the ice cream on top was yum), and got two more desserts: a cranberry/white chocolate chip cookie and a shortbread (which tasted like pecan shortbread).  The shortbread cookie was decent; I've had better cranberry/white chocolate chip cookies on airlines.  Sorry Rick!

At Frontera Grill, I ordered a few desserts: the Torta de Elote, Cazuela de Frutas, and a chocolate mousse cake. 

The Torta de Elote is a "warm, moist sweet corn cake with Klug Farm blueberry salsa, blueberry-tequila ice cream, homemade fresh cheese and crema." (gotta put quotes around sited work!).  This was interesting.  It tastes like it sounds, but wasn't anything mind-blowing.  Think sweet corn bread + blueberry ice cream with a hint of tequila + something that tastes like blueberry compote on the bottom. 

The Cazuela de Frutas is made of "local blackberries and plums (shiro and methly varieties) baked under a crunchy cashew-cornmeal streusel topping. Mexican vanilla bean ice cream."  The actual fruit part was too tart for my liking, but the crust topping was my favorite part. 

To be honest, this chocolate mousse cake was unmemorable for me.  I'm beginning to wonder how food critics remember so much food in one meal...do they have an app to capture their thoughts and reactions?  I guess my recommendation is to go for the food, but don't stay for the desserts.