Treat yourself to a completely fulfilling dining experience, because you are a winner. Located in Five Points Raleigh, Hayes Barton Cafe & Dessertery may be best known for the most epic dessert selection in North Carolina; in fact, the sweets have won numerous awards. This old diner is bustling with business, serving lunch and dinner, and even offers a kids' menu for the young ones. Both menu options are ample, from salads, snacks, and sides to amazing entrees with creatively curated ingredients. But that is not why we go to Hayes Barton Cafe -- it is the intriguing and provocative desserts we are after there. These sweets come in all shapes, colors, and sizes with surprising toppings and flavors. And with your sweet tooth in tow, you won't be disappointed as the daily dessert choices are too extensive to write out on the chalkboard. Are you ready to see these works of art called desserts?

Dine-in for lunch and dinner is available, as well as curbside pickup.

If you don't have a reservation, you better get there early to avoid a long wait. Yeah — it's that good.

Sit among the stars as the walls are a gallery filled with World War II and old Hollywood photographs honoring moments in history and bringing nostalgia into the room.

The bar is an old pharmacy counter, adding to the retro feel.

Hayes Barton’s cuisine offers the best dinners anywhere and the treat of the yummy bread before.

Try this perfect seafood stew with sea scallops, North Carolina grouper, chopped clams, shrimp, and mussels piled on top of the interesting saffron risotto with a house tomato broth.

Have something a little more casual, such as these BLT sliders with Gruyere and avocado mayo.

And the summer brings the classic and constant customer favorite heirloom tomato pie, which the restaurant sells out of daily.

It is recommended to order a slice with your reservation.

And this is why we came. Are we dreaming? Are there really this many choices of delectable specialty desserts in North Carolina?

The cakes are available for pre-order and dine-in. If you like something, you better order it with your entree, as it might not be there later.

How about a smaller cake for an office birthday party?

These Top Hat versions of the standard-sized cakes feed six to 10 people and come in coconut, funfetti, lemon, triple chocolate, and blueberry.

And here are some more in chocolate salted caramel and German chocolate.

Other options include lemon, blueberry, coconut, and chocolate Heath Bar.

The North Carolina Peach Patty Cake comes layered with fresh peaches.

Try a slice with some vanilla bean ice cream.

Just look how humongous the slices are.

This lemon blueberry cake is one of the best desserts in North Carolina.

How about some gingerbread in your life with butterscotch?

This strawberry layer cake makes you do a happy dance in your chair, because it is so perfectly moist, sweet, and fruity.

Or maybe put an order in for this Bailey's Irish Cream Tiramisu cake, complete with locally-brewed espresso-soaked ladyfingers.

How luscious does that sound?

Any time is the best time for a hearty slice of maple pecan cheesecake.

Wait — there are pies too?

Choose one from the mouthwatering selection.

Our eyes are on this creamy and ever-so-moist peanut butter mousse pie with chocolate and graham cracker.

It sounds like an Easter egg, doesn't it?

Or a sour-sweet slice of the classic key-lime pie.

Any way you slice it — Hayes Barton Cafe will never let you down in serving the most epic desserts in North Carolina.

Which tempting dessert would you like to try? If you didn't find something here, go inside and see the most epic dessert selection in North Carolina. And while you're in Raleigh, catch a ride on a carousel at this family-friendly park.