That’s how business owners Kim Moore and Paul Conforti describe their sugar-focused restaurant Finale, which is set to open a new branch this fall in the former location of Ma Soba.

The new Dunster Street restaurant will provide Harvard Square diners with a menu consisting of upscale deserts, ranging in price from $7.95 sorbet and ice cream to $30 for the chocolate plate for two.

“The likelihood is that people will have eaten already at another local restaurant,” Moore said in explaining the premise behind the restaurant. “It’s the sort of thing that happens in the North End. People want to extend their evening, or to take a walk before dessert.”

A Scholar’s Bookshop—which specializes in out-of-print books, with an academic emphasis—opened on Eliot Street in June.

Owner Howard Feldstein said he was drawn to opening a store near Harvard because of the academic atmosphere fostered in the University.

Though Feldstein said he has been collecting books since he was five, he said has never been drawn to new books.

“I find new books boring,” he said. “The great scholarship has already been done.”

—Lauren R. Dorgan, Jonathan H. Esensten, David H. Gellis, Anne K. Kofol, Dan Rosenheck and Elisabeth S. Theodore contributed to the reporting of this story.

—Staff writer Alexander J. Blenkinsopp can be reached at blenkins@fas.harvard.edu.

—Staff writer Eugenia B. Schraa can be reached at schraa@fas.harvard.edu.

—Staff writer Stephanie M. Skier can be reached at skier@fas.harvard.edu.