Desserts in Arlington, TX – Fine-Dining Sweets

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The dessert list

Eight desserts close the menu at Mercury Chophouse – Arlington, and they split evenly between cakes and everything else. Prices run $15 to $17.

The list is the same at lunch and dinner, and the restaurant keeps a copy on its desserts page alongside the coffee and after-dinner drinks. Coffee is $4 and espresso $5 if you want one beside the plate.

Two gluten-free desserts, marked on the menu

The Crème Brûlée and the Chocolate Torte carry a gluten-free mark on the printed menu, which is rarer than it should be at a steakhouse. The brûlée is the lighter of the two, a custard under a sugar crust; the torte is dense and dark and the one to order with a glass of port. Both are $15.

The kitchen does not claim a certified gluten-free line, and the menu asks that any food allergy be raised with your server before ordering, so a guest with celiac disease should say so at the start of the meal rather than at dessert. The gluten-free dining page covers the rest of the menu from that angle.

The cakes

Three of the eight are cakes. The Italian Cream Cake and the Strawberry Cake are the two most expensive desserts on the list at $17 each, and they are the ones that arrive at the table for birthdays. The New York Cheesecake is $15 and comes with a berry coulis rather than a plain plate.

Slices are cut for one, but the cakes are the desserts most often shared with two forks after a full steak dinner. If a birthday or anniversary is the reason for the visit, mention it when you book through OpenTable or by phone at 817-381-1157; the staff can time the dessert to the end of the meal. Portion sizes are not printed on the menu, so ask your server whether one slice will cover two if the table is full. The birthday dinner page goes into how a celebration evening runs on the ninth floor.

Warm, cold and citrus

The Cherry & Pecan Bread Pudding, $16, is the warm dessert, served with vanilla ice cream, and it is the natural finish to a winter dinner when the sun is down by 5:25 PM in December and the room has gone to candlelight and city lights. The Brownie, $15, also comes with vanilla ice cream and is the simpler chocolate choice next to the torte.

The Key Lime Pie, $16, is the cold, sharp option, and it is the dessert servers suggest after a big cut such as the Bone-In Ribeye at $90 or the Dry-Aged 36 oz Porterhouse for two, when nobody wants more richness. An Affogato, $8, espresso poured over ice cream, is the smallest sweet on the menu for a guest who wants two bites and a coffee in one.

Drinks that stand in for dessert

Five shaken ice cream cocktails sit next to the dessert list: the Brandy Alexander at $18, the Grasshopper at $17, the Golden Cadillac Eldorado at $18, the Cafe Helado at $17 and the Apple Pie à la Mode at $18. Each is a dessert in a glass, and a table that has already shared a cake often orders one or two of these instead of a second plate.

For something less sweet, the port list starts at $12, with Fonseca Bin 27 at $14 and a Messina Hof Papa Paulo Texas port at $16, and the Chocolate Martini is $16 with house-made vanilla vodka and Mozart. Cordials run $12 to $23 for a smaller pour. The after-dinner page lists every coffee, cordial and cognac.

Dessert with the view

Dessert is served at every table in the ninth-floor room and in The Boardroom, where a party of 8 to 20 can order cakes for the table at one long table behind a frosted glass door. Window tables look west over the Entertainment District, so a dessert course timed to sunset, around 7:35 PM in September and 8:15 PM in May, gets the light show for free; window seats cannot be guaranteed, but the host will try.

Dessert runs until the kitchen closes: 9:00 PM Monday through Thursday and 10:00 PM on Friday and Saturday. The restaurant is closed on Sundays, which matters for anyone planning a Sunday celebration.