Dessert restaurants in South America
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Crepes & Waffles
This chain of restaurants serves, obviously, crepes and waffles, plus salads and a range of desserts. It's a professional operation with a good philosophy - they only hire single mothers and women in need.
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Alexander Coffee & Pub, Santa Barbara
Trendy café serving all manner of java drinks, pastries and sandwiches. It's the place for a cappuccino hit, and has reliably good fruit juices and tasty snacks, from pastries to vegetarian quiche – don’t miss the torte de quinoa.
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Café La Terraza, Sopocachi
This stylish chain offers quality espresso and other coffee treats, as well as rich chocolate cake and cooked breakfasts that include North American-style pancakes and huevos rancheros (spicy scrambled eggs).
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La Bajadita
This is the place to sink your sweet tooth into some great cakes, including tiramisú, pecan pie, brownies and the ever-popular apple pie. They also do small meals and all-day breakfasts here.
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Sorveteria Bali
Grab an outdoor table and enjoy Maceió’s best ice cream. Among favorites are walnut, guava and tapioca.
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Bravíssimo Gelateria
The ice cream at this popular chain comes in colors as lurid as its sign, but it still goes down a treat on a hot day.
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La Nieta ‘e La Pancha
Wonderful staff prepares and serves a changing menu of delectable regional specialties, creative pastas and house recipes. Be sure to save room for dessert. Check out the lovely upstairs terrace, which catches breezes and gives ample people-watching ops on the street below.
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Pascasio
In a elegant, pared-down setting, this local star offers tasty innovations like wok seafood and ginger noodles, as well as exotic dishes like ñandú, wild boar and hare. Save room for decadent desserts, such as the serious 'study in chocolate.'
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Cherry’s Salon de Té
Open all afternoon, this cafe makes a nice but very slow pit stop while you’re out exploring the town. The apple strudel, chocolate cake and lemon meringue pie are superb. They also serve light meals and breakfasts.
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Para Ti Chocolates
Thanks to Sucre’s status as Bolivia’s chocolate capital, there are plenty of stores that cater to sweet tooths. The best is Para Ti Chocolates, where tasty bonbons are only the tip of the iceberg.
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Tutto Freddo
Across from the main plaza, this is likely the best (and definitely the most popular) spot in town for a mammoth banana split or a towering milkshake. And the upstairs booths are great.
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Quitinete
This chic deli-restaurant-bakery serves exquisite desserts (try the tartellete de limão; lemon tart) and the best coffee in the city (roasted in-house). Delivery available.
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Heladería Holanda
Don’t miss the tiny entrance on the town’s Plaza de Armas; it opens into a large, bright cafe selling what might be the best ice cream in northern Peru. The cafe has about 20 changing flavors, including Italian classics like stracciatella (vanilla with chocolate chips) and others made with local and seasonal fruit. Excellent espressos, cappuccinos with giant foam and homemade pies round out the menu.
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Back-Stube Konditorei
Back-Stube Konditorei is one of the best places to eat in town, this welcoming bakery-restaurant has excellent breakfasts, tempting cakes and pastries as well as pasta, vegetarian plates and memorable sauerbraten (marinated pot-roast beef) with spätzle (German dough noodles). There’s also a great terraced area, and a book exchange.
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Tia Maria
It's hard not to stop at the sight of the chairs here, whose shaggy, multicolored upholstering makes them look like pom-poms, or the Fry Guys from the '70s McDonald's commercials. And once you stop, you may as well pop in for a piece of pie, which comes in a dozen or so varieties. Better yet, come here for dessert after Italian dinner across the street.
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Café de la Merced
You couldn’t ask for a better location than this rooftop cafe: atop the Iglesia de la Merced, right by the bells, with stellar city views. They serve very tasty juices, adequate coffee, delicious cakes and light meals; you may have to wait for a table though, as it’s a small space.
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Recanto de Dona Sula
To satisfy sweet cravings, stop by local favorite Recanto de Dona Sula, where homemade candies, ice creams and liqueurs are made from local fruits. Both charming and environmentally conscious (recycling is a priority here), Dona Sula’s is located next to the church.
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Nina-Yaku
This nouveau Peruvian eatery wouldn’t look a bit out of place in NYC’s Soho or Buenos Aires’ Palermo Hollywood. The modern menu includes reinventions of traditional arequipeño tastes, with salads, sandwiches and tastebud-tingling desserts, plus coffees and cocktails.
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M.Koo
Simple corner shop famous for its crumbly chumbeques (sweet regional biscuits), the recipe for which is guarded zealously. It also sells neatly wrapped in-season specials, such as humitas (corn tamales) and pastel de choclo (maize casserole) to go.
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Café Campero
Dive into the fabulous range of breads, cakes and pastries, including French-style baguettes, chocolate cake and cuñapes (cassava and cheese rolls). If you prefer to have yours to go, pop into the Palacio de las Masas next door, which is open in the morning.
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Jordan's
There's a bit of everything here, with a clothes shop at the front, internet terminals upstairs and a wireless zone in the café. Best is the café, which serves pricy but excellent coffee and moist, tasty cakes in a stylish modern space.
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Café Pigalle
If you want to blend in in Tucumán, you'd better have an ice cream in your hand at all times. This place on the plaza does some of the best, and also offers a daily dessert special that is usually extremely sweet and sticky and good.
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Heladería Miranda
A frequent dilemma in Argentina is whether to go for a rich red cabernet or a dry white torrontés, but it doesn’t usually occur in ice-cream parlors. It does here: the Miranda’s wine ice creams are Cafayate’s pride and joy.
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Confitería El Molino
With bow-tied waiters and gourmet-style pastries and biscuits, this is one of the sweetest confiterías around. Great for minutas (short orders), snacks and excellent licuados (blended fruit drinks).
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