If you’re going to spend almost $200 on dinner, you want it to truly blow your mind, right? Flavor combinations you’ve never heard of before, fish that’s just been plucked from the water, fresh ingredients straight from the farm, all that good shit. Chicago’s Valhalla response to this conundrum is simpler: What’s more mind-blowing than infinite dessert?
For $188, you can enjoy Valhalla’s tasting menu, with the kind of beautifully plated and skilfully created dishes you’d expect, made up of ingredients like wagyu beef, marinated wild tuna and a whole heap of shellfish. The crowning glory of their tasting menu, however, is undoubtedly the dessert, for which the description on the menu bears an infinity sign and nothing else.
If you can find room for dessert after the rest of your incredible meal, Valhalla’s pastry chef will come out and explain that the restaurant has more than 40 options available, and you can enjoy as many as you want. In addition, they can create more if you somehow manage to exhaust all of them. Fitting them in shouldn’t be too difficult — all you need to do is open up the dessert stomach you keep reserved for special occasions such as this.
TikToker Jake Talks Food shared his experience with the infinite dessert menu, explaining that while his dining companions were pretty full after dinner, he has a sweet tooth, and thus found it within himself to “go pretty far” with the desserts. He says he thinks he could have enjoyed as many as 25, but after requesting the restaurant’s signature pavlova, he found he was too full to attempt any more.
I can already see where this is going: YouTubers engaging in mukbang challenges to see who can eat the most desserts and making themselves sick in the process. Jake has already given Valhalla a heads up that this might happen however. As he commented on his video, which has been viewed almost a million times, “I warned the chefs at Valhalla they might have an influx of dessert challengers coming in.”
That might not be so sweet after all.
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