Serendipity 3

Serendipity is based on 225 East. 60th St, NYC. I think there are 2 more throughout the USA but not sure where. Serendipity is famous for its Frrozen Hot Chocolate (no I haven't inserted an extra 'r' in frozen - that’s how to spell it!!) and most of the desserts. It is also a general store where you can buy t-shirts, mugs etc etc....

I need to stress you MUST book well in advance and not just turn up. We booked a table and were told to come back in over 1 hour, so we amused ourselves and by the time we had got back there was a queue right out the door with people waiting up to 40mins, so please be aware of this. For anyone that is interested, for this 1 hour I decided to get on the aerial tram to Roosevelt Island which was only about a 5 min walk from the restaurant......it meant another places I'd seen and it killed some time!! (They also filmed a spooky major film there....anyone guess??)

Inside, it is actually quite small but the staff manage to move around and still give quick service..so I wasn't complaining. :). Our waiter was lovely and pleasant.

I basically wanted to go here because of the movie Serendipity with Kate Beckinsale and John Cusack.. and even though the film was made in 2001 and I didn't go to 2008 I could still recognize the place and even where the pair sat in the restaurant!

So you will see from my photos that the desserts are roughly about $13 which you might be thinking...no way - too expensive. Well yeah you're right, but the size sooo makes up for it! I took pictures of each dessert and even the frrozen hot chocolate. Well worth my money!!!!

In November 2007, Serendipity unveiled a $25,000 dessert called the "Frrrozen Haute Chocolate," which Guinness World Records declared the world's most expensive desert.

First off, I LOVE this place. Any girl who has seen the Serendipity movie will know of this restaurant. The history, the vintage Tiffany lamps, celebrities who have visited (Andy Warhol paid is bills with his drawings before he became popular) basically the whole aura of Serendipity is whimsical. Knowing the popularity I had made a reservation in September in order to make sure I had a table for my 25th birthday in December (a few years back). THANK GOODNESS I made that reservation! New York in busy during the Christmas season so without one we would have been waiting a painfully long time. Serendipity has been known to have lines wrap around the corner at some points.

The restaurant is a lot smaller than I would have expected but the feeling once inside is of excitement. We luckily got to sit upstairs right by the fireplace in which the movie was filmed. It was magical! Dinner was good, big portions by surprise. BUT, make sure you don't eat too much or else you won't get to experience euphoria in your mouth. The AMAZING Frrrozen Hot Chocolate!!!!! Not to be confused with it's more expensive Frrozen Haute Chocolate with a price tag of $25,000! Or you could order the Golden Opulence Sundae for $1,000 as long as you have a 48 hour notice. All their desserts are decadent (enough to buy all the books) so you can't go wrong picking one.

On the way out you can browse throw their store and pick up some trinkets or Frozen Hot Chocolate kits. Warning: the packets have over 500 calories and 109 grams of sugar...but worth it! So if you deceide to go, make a reservation, plan to be there for a while and enjoy the experience.

The reason why we went here is because of the movie Serendipity, i soo love that movie.
My friend was kind enough to visit me in NYC and bring me here. We waited almost 45 mins for a table in a freezing spring weather. While waiting, I noticed that the restaurant is an attraction as there are plenty of people waiting as well and taking their pictures while waiting, like us =D
The waiters are very friendly, really friendly. I couldn't really speak much about the food cause I had cold that time and my taste buds were not 100% perfect. But my steak looked fine. And my friends didn't say anything bad bout theirs either. The frozzen hot chocolate was to die for!
We left the resto past 11 in the evening and surprise, surprise... there were still plenty of people waiting outside for their tables..
The waiting is fine, who knows you might discover something interesting inside =D

Every year I visit New York, I visit my favorite place - Serendipity 3. It became famous to me after I saw one of the most romantic movies called Serendipity (starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale). I bought the book of recipies, I must say it's not the same as when you're there. :) So, try it out next time you visit NY.

So I've been wanting to go to Serendipity 3 for a while... since I saw the movie Serendipity and saw Kate Bekinsale and John Cusak sharing a moment at the cafe eating a frozen hot chocolate, what looked like the most decident dessert I've ever seen. It took me 7 trips to New York City since that moment and Brandon thought that Frozen Hot Chocolate sounded disguisting and asked me if I thought I might be over exciting myself... I said yes, I quite possibly could be. But we went in there... this time it wasn't a long wait at all... like 5 minutes--I had a chance to go one other time and the wait was an hour and 20 minutes so I had to back out... so note to self if you go, if the weather isn't 5 degrees F outside then make reservations! But biting into that first spoonful was like kissing the man of your dreams for the first time... that anticipation and build up did not let me down! Brandon ended up getting regular chocolate cake and ended up dissapointed; which is good because the goblet full of frozen hot chocolate needs to be split by 2 people!