Clearing the Table During a Bread Meal

In our family, it is customary after the Friday night meal to go out to the balcony to eat ice cream. Is it necessary to say the final blessing on the dessert due to the clearing of the bread?

One should recite the initial blessing on the dessert, but there is no need to recite the final blessing. Upon returning home, recite Birkat Hamazon.

As stated in the Gemara in Tractate Berachot, page 41: "Rav Pappa said, the Halacha is: items that come because of the meal during the meal do not require a blessing neither before nor after. And those not because of the meal during the meal require a blessing before but not after. After the meal, they require a blessing both before and after. Therefore, the last course during the meal requires a blessing before, but the blessing after is covered by Birkat Hamazon. And after the meal, which requires a blessing even after, the early authorities wrote that this is at the end of the meal after one has removed their hands from the bread, and the Rashba wrote that one needs to actually remove the table as in their days. And the Tur wrote in Orach Chaim, Siman 177, that in our days we do not have this law, as we do not remove our hands from the bread. And although in our days we during the last course remove from the bread, the Biur Halacha wrote that we are concerned with the Rashba's opinion, who wrote that one needs to actually remove the table as was the way in their days, and only then is it considered removal from the meal, but removal from the bread without removing the table requires a blessing before but not after. Therefore, in our case, our teacher the Gaon, Rabbi Ovadia Fried, ruled that this is not considered table removal, because he does not remove the table to stop eating the main meal as in their days, but rather wants to go out to eat in the air.