Pierre Roelofs' Dessert Evenings 2018

Overview

Sweet tooths, assemble. Pastry chef Pierre Roelofs and his team of wicked enablers are resurrecting their legendary dessert evenings, shattering our halfhearted plans to cut down on the sweet stuff. Oops.

After five years at Cafe Rosamond in Fitzroy and a few pop-ups around the traps last year, Roelofs' dessert extravaganzas are making a return to Collingwood's Mina-no-ie in 2018. The cafe will turn all things sweet for three nights in February — which are all sold out — and three nights in May. Luckily, there's still spots left for the latter.

If you haven't been to an evening before, you can expect a four-course degustation — the catch being that all four courses are dessert. The menu is top secret and changes every time. We can tell you that previous evenings have involved ridiculous concoctions of mascarpone, strawberry, honey, orange, cardamom and speculaas, as well as a deconstructed bread and butter pudding served in one of Roelofs' famed dessert test tubes.