Walking down King Street in Newtown, one of Sydney's oldest suburbs, one's senses can become completely overwhelmed. Despite its colourful boutiques and a seemingly endless array of second-hand book stores, it's the tastebuds that really get the work-out with the strip's vast line of culinary delights. I've walked King Street many times and have counted over 140 pubs, restuarants and cafes along it.

These never stay static either. Constantly changing, upgrading, renaming and expanding one can always expect a new gastronomic adventure to greet them when visiting King Street.

Well, I'm determined to end that and achieve the near impossible: to feast from every restaurant/cafe/bar on King Street and live to tell the tale.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Max Brenner

@ 142-146 King Street, Newtown

Sydney's caught the chocolate cafe bug and it's caught it pretty badly. When I first noticed that a Max had opened up my first reaction was elation. My second reaction was to laugh. I've never been a fan of Gloria Jeans and, a mere two shops down from Max, is a Gloria. All I had to say was, that Gloria Jeans was facing some serious damage. Nights afterwards, you could see Max overfilled with customers and Gloria, satisfying a party of two or three dedicated customers. Now, let's not jump to conclusions, was this Max all that?

Upon visiting Max, the line was brutal. We had to wait about 20 minutes to be served and find a table. Then, it was another 20 for us all to be served. The waitors were a little flustered (as can be expected from the number of customers) and kept forgetting to bring us water despite our many efforts to remind them of our request. The food was Max Brenner all over. Good chocolate, good white chocolate chair and good waffles. If there's sone thing you can count on, it's that at every Max you can always expect the same (or at least close to) taste and quality.

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