William Curley Dessert Bar

While visiting London, I went out of my way to find the William Curley shop so I could bring home chocolate bar souvenirs to my chocolate-​loving family. I’d read and heard positive things about this chocolatier, who apparently has won many national awards.
I guess the people doling out these awards didn’t take the time to taste the chocolate before bestowing honors on it. The shop is nice enough and the staff were polite (a sample would have been nice, so I could have tasted it and left without parting with my money) but that’s where the compliments end. I purchased five bars (at four pounds fifty each), sticking to the basic milk chocolate, dark chocolate, and a milk prailine. The dark chocolate has the berry tones it boasts, but as for the vanilla flavor in the milk chocolate, we couldn’t detect it. The prailine was not soft and creamy as prailine should be, but hard and crispy.
I hope my family does not take these bad souvenirs as a reflection of my love for them.

We visited the William Curley Dessert Bar for the 8pm sitting of the Valentine’s Day Dessert Bar.
It was a six-​course sitting of these small desserts:
* Champagne Granita
* A Chocolate and Raspberry Sorbet with Raspberry Tuille
* Vanilla Pannacotta and Strawberry Compote
* Tropical Savarin
* Molleaux au Chocolat, Pistachio Ice Cream and Cherry Sauce
* Petit Fours Selection
The desserts were ok, without being spectacular. My favourite one was the Tropical Savarin, which was similar to a doughnut soaked in a syrup, sesame ice-​cream, passionfruit sauce and mango. The molleaux au chocolat was close to a chocolate fondant, crusted with sugar and it went nicely with the pistachio ice-​cream.
Unfortunately, we had to wait for about 15 minutes before we were seated. Also, I had been expecting to sit at the bar as the desserts were prepared in front of us, but we were just seated at a regular table. This was probably just my misunderstanding. The whole experience took close to 2 hours and the spaces between the courses were noticeable. However, the service itself was fine and they took an interest in which were our favourite meals when we went up to the counter to pay.
Overall, it was not bad, but not as good as I was expecting.