LA DIPERIE CENTRAL AVENUE – Restaurant

A dessert counter on Central Avenue in downtown St. Pete, between 4th and 5th, where you build the thing yourself: pick a base, pick a dip, pick what goes on top. Soft serve cones, donuts, cheesecake slices, cookies and cakes all get plunged into real chocolate — around thirty coatings on offer — then finished from a bank of twenty-plus toppings. It opens at one in the afternoon and runs to midnight on Saturdays, which tells you exactly what it is for. Late-night sugar, engineered.

Cuisine: Restaurant