Must-Try: junky movie snacks get an elegant upgrade at Richmond Station

Must-Try: junky movie snacks get an elegant upgrade at Richmond Station

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No one has more fun in the kitchen thanFarzam Fallah,the wildly inventive pastry chef at the Financial District hangoutRichmond Station.To wit: the cryptically named Movie Snacks dessert, which turns out to be a quenelle of crunchy, buttery popcorn-rippled ice cream surrounded by weightless Coca Cola meringue, sticky almond brittle, fudgy chocolate cake and a tart cranberry-Pernod purée that tastes uncannily of Twizzlers. Like all Fallah’s plates, it comes arranged like an artful crime scene, splayed with pools, smears and crumbles that blend into a superfecta of salty, sweet, spicy and tangy. The dish is a refined riff on those nostalgic, junky flavours—yet somehow cheaper than a Cineplex Combo. $9.

Richmond Station,1 Richmond St. W., 647-748-1444