"Centrolina’s memorable Italian dessert menu includes a honey buckwheat cake with candied and poached rhubarb, kiwi, strawberry, basil, and white balsamic pearls or a delicious dark chocolate molten cake with Italian meringue, coffee chai-red wine, poached pear, and cream. Across the street at all-day sibling Piccolina, find fabulous cannoli, tea cakes, and cookies (try the lemon ricotta variety). Tonari alum Mary Mendoza stepped in last year as pastry chef at the CityCenter DC staples." - Tierney Plumb