The Delectable Bites: Max Brenner

841 Broadway (14th street/Union Square) New York (212) 388-0030

www.maxbrenner.com

Yesterday me and Bobby started our summer adventures for food and happy times.

I decided to pick our food for the night and i choose Max Brenner. Since im a HUGE chocoholic i made sure this was our first stop. The restaurant is known not only for the chocolate of course but the drinks and desserts are also to die for.

As soon as we walked in, before the second set of doors even opened, you smell chocolate. Not typical chocolate bar smell. It was rich, strong, sweet and absolutely phenomenal. You know when you typically walk into a restaurant you get a smell of different food combinations? not here; although they serve food there as well, your instantly hit with the smell of chocolate until you walk back out to leave. Didnt bother me one bit. The minute you walk in not only did you get this amazing smell but you also land your eyes on these huge vats of churning chocolate and these large pipes, circling through-out the restaurant "carrying away" the creamy chocolate.

For our appetizer we had Smoky Dry Rubbed Chicken Wings, for our drinks, Bobby had the Eighties Milkshake[milk chocolate ganache, vanilla bourbon ice cream with a crunchy chocolate shell] and i had the Good Old Days Chocolate Milk[pure chocolate cream with fresh shaken milk with ice]. First the drinks were really good, they tasted like different types of chocolate. Mine was milk chocolate but it wasnt Nesquik type chocolate milk. It was rich and had a deep chocolate flavor; i loved it. Bobbys was really good too.

The wings were good. Not too spicy not too sweet. A typical wing, nothing really special.

For our main courses, i had The Brenner Burger[max's secret barbecue sauce, lettuce, tomato, cheddar and an onion ring on top. served with waffle fries dusted with chili and cocoa powder]. Bobby had Jason's Juicy Grill-Basted Mushroom Burger[portabello mushroom instead of a burger patty, red onion, lettuce, tomato, tomato-basil *aioli and swiss]. Our burgers were delicious. Bobby didnt miss the beef at all, waffles fries were great and the tangy spicy sauce that was served with them was also good. My burger was delicious, i really liked the barbecue sauce, im convinced there was a little beer in it, it just had that flavor to it.

Now for the best part of any meal, DESSERT.

I picked dessert and i choose Chocolate Crispy Egg Rolls[banana fudge chocolate filling, creamy milk chocolate dip and sea salt caramel sauce]. The dessert was really good but it came with peanuts inside the filling, we both were ok about the peanuts but it couldve done without. The sauce inside spilled out of the egg roll as you bit into it and it was a little hard to dip it into the milk chocolate dip because the filling was a little too runny. The flavors were all there, the dip and sauce were really good. The sea salt caramel sauce tasted almost like butterscotch which wasnt bad at all. Next time i think were better off getting things to dip into a fondue. But all in all, it was still pretty decadent.

For an overall rating, me and Bobby agreed on an 8.

* a blend of ail (garlic) and oli (oil) - garlic mayo.