My wife and I climbed up the hill to Broadway to enjoy one of our favorite treats – a dish of vanilla ice cream slathered in Dilettante’s Ephemere chocolate sauce. We approached the familiar Dilettante storefront only to find that as of last Sunday the shop’s original Broadway location was officially closed. We stared with sad disbelief at the closure sign. Fortunately the sign also promised a new and better location at the base of the new Brix building in July.

With Dilettante closed, we considered our options. Would we find a nice treat in the glass case in the front of Café Septieme? Would we trek down to B&O and attempt and choose something from their gargantuan dessert menu? Would we pool our spare change for a shake or a cone at Dick’s? In the end, laziness won out and we picked up some ice cream at QFC, which, by the way, happens to sell Dilettante Ephemere sauce in convenient squeeze bottles. I guess I know how we will make it through the Dilettante-free month of June.