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Gorge on Chocolate at the Ritz-Carlton D.C.

Where: 1150 22ND ST NW [map], Washington, DC, United States, 20037

If drowning your recession woes in booze isn’t tickling your fancy, perhaps a chocolate buffet will do the trick. And what better place for a chocolate buffet than Chocolate City? That's right, the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C. has transformed its Lobby Lounge into what we’d like to call choco-pocalypse.

Each Friday and Saturday evenings this month and then again in February, pastry chef Jerome Giardot is whipping up a Chocolate Decadence Buffet of “candy, cakes and tarts galore,” yours for the gorging for $35 (that's for five items). More specifically, we’re talking Black Forest cake, Opera cake, white-chocolate-lemon crème brulee and Gianduja crème brulee; a selection of chocolate caramels, dark and milk chocolate bouchees, housemade truffles, warm chocolate-caramelized banana bread pudding, chocolate blinis, and more.

And…decadence doesn’t end there! (After all, how can you be expected to enjoy chocolate of such magnitude without the pairing bubbly?) Well fret not, for the Ritz is nothing if not in touch with the worries of the common man. Alas, the Champagne Flights of Fancy (an additional $38) include Moet & Chandon White Star, Moet & Chandon Rose Imperial, Moet & Chandon Nectar Imperial, and Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label.

Sure, this all might sound a bit lavish, what with a global economic crisis, blah blah. Still, we’re going to have to go Liz Lemon on this one: We want to go to there.

[Photo: Ritz-Carlton]