"Rib Room pastry chef Autumn Heckman earned a NOWFE medal for her taste of the tropics dessert, a gorgeous roasted banana mousse with coconut rum whipped custard and island pineapple salsa. But her sweets are a treat every day at the Rib Room. Two showstoppers are the chocolate pecan tart with a salted Creole mousse and the creative hurricane cheesecake with dark rum sauce and rum-soaked maraschino cherries." - Beth D'Addono, Clair Lorell