It's Good Friday, so me and the hubby decided to make it a Great Friday and took a vacation day. We decided we would head into the city and hit up the new Max Brenner restaurant in Boston. This was our second time visiting this small chain; our first time was on our honeymoon in Australia. We had heard that they were opening a Boston location, and couldn't think of a better way to spend our day off; reliving our honeymoon and indulging in chocolate desserts!
The atmosphere of Max Brenner's during our Sydney visit was amazing. It was a rainy day, but we still sat outside on the patio under some umbrella's and heat lamps. We each ordered a cappuchino, and decided to split Belgian waffles with chocolate sauce, fruit, and ice cream. We inhaled everything! It was by far the best dessert we had ever had. All this being said, you now can understand why we couldn't wait to try the newly opened Boston location.
Upon arriving, our mouths salivating, we noticed a HUGE inflatable rat outside the restaurant, angry union workers, and a small child vomiting (pure coincidence). We didn't let this scene scare us away so we walked through the crowd and right in to be seated. The location in Sydney only served dessert and drinks, but the Boston location has a full menu. We knew we wanted to stuff ourselves on dessert, so we decided to limit our lunch. We split the unforgettable spicy tuna salad sandwich with waffle fries dusted with chili and chocolate powder. The sandwich was delicious (I even recreated it the next day at home!), and the fries were incredible. I dare you to find better waffle fries.
Now time for dessert! The dessert menu is pretty large so it took us a little while to decide on what we wanted. I decided I needed to re-experience Sydney and ordered a cappuchino with the banana split waffles. The banana split waffles consisted of 2 Belgian waffles, caramelized bananas, ice cream, chocolate sauce, and chocolate covered wafer crisps. I have to say I was completely disappointed with my cappuchino. As you can see from the picture above, in Sydney they served my cappuchino in a cute mug with chocolate on the side. This time it came in a plastic cup. I kid you not! The cheapest cup ever, and the presentation was just awful. So sad. The dessert made up for it though. It was really good, just short of great. I have to say Sydney takes the cake on the better dessert, pun intended. |
| Most ginormous dessert ever! |
James decided to hold off on the cappuchino (which was a good idea given my review above), and get the euphoria peanut butter chocolate fudge sundae which was deep chocolate peanut butter ice cream, dulce de leche ice cream, caramelized toffee bananas, pure chocolate chunks, milk chocolate sauce and warm peanut butter sauce garnished with whipped cream and crunchy hazelnut bits. It was absolutely ridiculous! Needless to say, when we each got our desserts, we knew immediately, we should've split one!
We left feeling very stuffed, on a sugar high, but with light pockets. Max Brenner does charge a pretty penny for all that chocolate. I think we will return, but next time we'll skip the sad looking cappuchino, and definitely split a dessert. Don't forget to take a nice stroll through the city after visiting Mr. Brenner, you'll definitley have some calories to burn off!
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