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For a variation on a theme of Latin American food, visit La Duni, which Esquire cited as one of the best 10 new restaurants in America.

Open for lunch and dinner weekdays but only breakfast and brunch on the weekends, it is in the Knox-Henderson shopping area. Whether you go for lunch. brunch or dinner, save room for dessert.

Pastry chef and co-owner Dunia Borga, whose nickname gave the restaurant its own, doesn't jut make dessert, she creates culinary treasures, ranging from Venezuelan chocolate truffle cake to a quatro leches cake, a notch above the traditional tres leches. Don't worry about pronouncing pastel de banano y trufa chocolate de Maracaibo, just love what she does with bananas and chocolate.

Don't turn your nose up when you see "sandwiches" either. Think citrus-marinated pork loin, with mojo, greens, avocado, pickled onions and Manchego cheese in a home-baked popover instead.

Duni can easily feed two for less than $50.