cafecruise : max brenner melb central

The time is here and if you really want to play with your taste buds and get your lips around some beautifully made chocolate, or just sink your teeth in the added pleasures of the menu, but then have the thirst of drinking some chocolate rich delights. How sweet can it be when you have a place like Max Brenner's?  Opening their first store in Melbourne inside the QV shopping precinct, the Bald Man also opened up a store in the revised and refreshed Melbourne Central complex.

The Melbourne Central store is larger than the QV store and has more to offer on the menu to suite anyone with chocolate in mind.  Unfortunately I have not had the opportunity to sample the coffee, but given all of my attention to the chocolate drinks on the menu.  I do tend to hover around the hot chocolate variations. 

Max Brenner's at Melbourne Central, provides ample seating both inside and outside the store.  All the seating outside is undercover and the wall opposite the store is painted in Max Brenner colours and pictures that are very reminiscing from the 40's and 50's era.  Once you walk inside the store, you'll walk past two large vats, one with milk chocolate and the other white chocolate.  To the left of the entrance is the gift shop, showcasing a vast selection of delectable chocolates available for purchase or you can purchase some to have with whichever beverage you end up choosing, if you can find the heart to actually place one of the chocolates in your mouth.  The general atmosphere will just make you think that you're in and olde time chocolate shop.

Having been to this store quite a few times, I have found the staff to be helpful at most times, this final time I did find them to be much more helpful and more creative when it came to delivering latte's to my colleagues upon discovering that I was taking shots.  From Chocolate Fondue to the delicious banana and chocolate ice cream crepe that I ordered this time, you will also be given a small jar of warm melted milk chocolate that you can dip your crepe or other delicacy in (apart from the fondue which you'll be doing anyway). Eventually I will have to sample the coffee and also let you know where their coffee actually comes from.

If you're a fan of chocolate, then there is nothing bad I can really say except that you just have to go and enjoy it for yourself.

coffee :  unknown

Max Brenner Chocolate by the Bald Man :  Melbourne Central, Shop DE5 Vic 3000 T : 9662 6000

website : www.maxbrenner.com.au

rating : 5 out of 5