The Creme Brûlée Cart features creme brûlée from the fridge, sugar torched on site, and additional toppings on top. Watch them do it -- if there's just one person in the cart, they prepare it quickly and immediately after taking an order, instead of lining up multiple orders and calling out names. That was the procedure at Off The Grid in El Cerrito during my trip in early 2015-April . It wasn't clear to me that the toppings would be on top since the ingredients are simply listed after the name. The website says it more clearly. Sweet Southern Lady ($6?) Vanilla bean creme brûlée torched to perfection and topped with candied pecans and bourbon caramel drizzle You get a small but fairly deep cup of cream, and with the Sweet Southern Lady you can see quite a bit of the tiny black vanilla beans in the cream, though most seemed to have settled on the bottom. Didn't really see how well they torched the sugar, but I didn't get any burnt taste, so it must have been...
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