Adele De'Arth was out with friends enjoying a delicious meal.

Along came dessert and they weren't so excited. From the conversation of what might have been came the spark of an idea for Tauranga's first dessert bar.

But First Desserts opened just a couple of months ago on Elizabeth St, opposite the new Farmers development in the CBD.

'We gave our head chef Kasper full creative freedom to create desserts that people would love and are familiar with, but with a twist to make them exciting and different from anyone else. There's no one else doing what we are doing,” explains entrepreneur and owner Adele.

Offering desserts, sweet treats, coffee, cocktails, wine or beer, the dessert bar is already making waves. 'We're getting amazing feedback from customers and I'm loving seeing some regulars coming back in. It means we are definitely doing something right.”

With options of dine-in or takeaway, and all desserts prepped and made on-site from scratch, there's some mouth-watering menu items to choose from including Chocolate Lava S'more, Champagne Cheesecake, White Spring Forest and Tropical Rum Baba to name but a few.

'We're finding some people are simply popping in on their way home from work, to take a treat home to their family. Others are enjoying the experience of dining in with us. It's great.”

Open Wednesday to Saturday it seems the motto of the story is make sure you leave room for dessert. See: www.butfirstdessert.co.nz