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Restaurant: Coco500 (San Francisco)
Food description: Coffee gelato with swiss meringue, candied almonds, and chocolate sauce atop a crisp wafer
Food rating: 6 out of 10
Times ordered: 1

It's funny because this dish was the opposite of all the other dishes in terms of portion size. It was gigantic, even though desserts are supposed to be small. Coco500 has their portions all backwards and upside down. Needless to say, I had to split this with a friend, which is always great because if you don't like it, you just eat slower than the other person until they've unconsciously eaten most of it. Such was the case with the sickenly-sweet vacherin. The culprit was the massive pool of chocolate sauce drowning the gelato. There was so much of it and given how sweet it was, less would've more in this case. I'm just not a person who derives pleasure from being all jacked up on sugar and caffeine, so I prefer quality over quantity when it comes to desserts. Speaking of quality, the coffee gelato wasn't really that great compared to other gelato I've had. The coffee flavor wasn't pronounced enough and the texture was solid-as-a-rock, where I prefer gelato that's much softer and easier to eat. The swiss meringue got completely lost and wasn't really necessary. The candied almonds were delicious as long as they weren't drenched in too much chocolate sauce, and worked well with the coffee flavor. The gelato was on top of a little white wafer, which I didn't like the texture of at all. I guess it was meant to mimic a wafer cone, but It was too crumby, almost dusty, plus the almonds contributed enough texture to eliminate the need for this element. After eating about 1/4 of this dessert, it was really only a matter of time before it started to make me sick of it. The part that I did eat was good, you've just gotta be careful or you'll overdose on sugar.