Denver restaurant’s over-the-top dessert explodes on your table

Chef de cuisine Tracy Todd uses a balloon to create one of Toro Latin Kitchen & Lounge’s most popular desserts: La Bomba.

“It’s a very painstaking process,” Todd said. “You have to be very careful with it. If you do one part wrong, chocolate explodes everywhere. I have plenty of pictures of myself covered in chocolate.”

Toro restaurant owner and renowned chef/restaurateur Richard Sandoval created La Bomba because “he wanted something unique to both thank and wow his guests,” Todd said. Toro has had the La Bomba on its menu since Richard Sandoval Hospitality opened the restaurant on the ground floor of Hotel Clio in Cherry Creek in 2020.

La Bomba ($22) features a chocolate sphere with brownie bites, cookie crumbles, two kinds of ice cream and one flavor of sorbet and seasonal berries, all topped with edible flowers, raspberry sauce and creme anglaise. T...