Small Bite: Sugar Rush

Now that summer’s over—and your bikini is so last season—just shut up and order dessert. At Finale in Coolidge Corner, the dessert chain’s newest and biggest location, more than 12 meal-replacing (and meal-priced) sweets satisfy an almost cultish following of culinary rebels who come to eat cake for dinner, just because they can. As at the Boston and Cambridge locations, there’s real food here, too, that’s decent but not worth spoiling your appetite with. (If you must: Try the fig and prosciutto pizza.) Rule breakers will want to get right down to business deciding among Boston cream pie, made with a cherry-almond florentine; bittersweet chocolate mousse with blackberry cabernet sorbet; and the Magnanimous Molten, which at $16.95 is big enough, but way too good, to share; plus a rotating selection of gelati and sorbets. There’s no table service during the day, but two floors of seating make wait time short and sweet. An in-store bakery—with cookies, cupcakes, and that oft-forgotten classic, the whoopie pie—will help maintain a sugar high for days. 1306 Beacon St., Brookline, 617-232-3233, finaledesserts.com.