Enter Treacherous Leches, a new dessert stall located at The Conservatory, that is tres leches-centric. You can’t miss it because it’s right inside the door of the downtown food hall, which is convenient if you’re in a rush to experience their variations on the classic. Treacherous Leches keep it pretty simple in terms of aesthetics and presentation, so just know you might have to work a little if you’re hoping to impress the foodies of Instagram.
For my first visit, I kept it classic with the traditional tres leches, although they do have chocolate, red velvet, and pina colada variants available, in addition to carrot cake and some huge-looking portions of doughnut bread pudding. In my case, they gave me the option of adding whipped cream to the tres leches and, for reasons I’ll be getting into shortly, you should definitely say yes to the whipped cream.
Treacherous Leches tagline is “the heaven of tres leches and so much more” but divine is not the word I would use to describe what I plunged my fork into. While their tres leches
Part of that likely has to do with the fact that it’s coming from a stall and not a bakery setting. The slices are pre-portioned, which is fine for most desserts but opens up tres leches to drying out, and in this instance the upper third of my tres leches didn’t have that wet, bordering on
The flavor of the tres leches was fine but a bit one-note. Many places will go with some sort of add-on, like a drizzle of caramel, to highlight the core flavor of the tres leches, but Treacherous Leches plays it straight, leaving you with just the slightly too sweet flavors of the core dish. And for what it’s worth, this tres leches had me wishing I had a glass of water to wash it down with, as it dried out my throat something fierce.
As someone with a deep love for tres leches — I really wanted a three-tiered tres leches wedding cake — I’m of the opinion that just fine tres leches is better than no tres leches at all, and if you’re downtown when the mood strikes you then I’m glad Treacherous Leches is there to have your back. I’ll be visiting at some point to try out the other varieties, but based on my first exposure, it might be a minute before I get around to it.