This Westwood dessert was the best thing we ate this week

A cream-stuffed dessert, elevated grilled cheese and more most impressed food writer Kara VanDooijeweert this week.

This column publishes on Saturdays, and typically features standout eats from Morris, Essex, Bergen, Hudson, Passaic and/or Sussex counties.

As a food writer, I often get the question "do you like Taco Bell?"

It's as if — once people figure out I review food establishments for a living — they need to hear that I love the late-night grease joint; that a professional eater thinks the Mexican-American chain is worth going to.

Perhaps, I assume, my stamp of approval will give them the permission they need to publicly declare their own infatuation with it (or give them a person to blame if anyone judges them for going; I.E.; "It's not bad! Even the food critic likes it!"