Brunetti: Hot Chocolate I Have Known (Pt 1)
If this last trip to Melbourne had a plan (which it didn't - the whole thing had a lazy aura of unplanned-ness about it) it would be Mission Hot Chocolate 2: This Time With Added Pizza. My 2004 trip to Melbourne started out with the stated aim of trying a stack of gourmet hot chocolate places, but the first one I made it to was so mind-bendingly good that I kinda forgot about the rest.
Or when I tried they were closed.
Which happened surprisingly often for a cosmopolitan, 24-hour-trading city like Melbourne (and to the one that made malteaser hot chocolate, just to make things worse) but it was mostly that I kept going back to L'Aperitivo for another hit of the thick molten goo they called Italian Hot Chocolate.
This time around L'Aperitivo was closed for the first week of my holiday, so I had no choice but to get my hot chocolate hit somewhere else.
One of the stops on my hot chocolate tour of Melbourne was Brunetti City Square in the CBD, for their Italian Hot Chocolate. It's not as thick as L'Aperitivo (ie you can't stand the spoon up in the middle of the glass) but it's still disgustingly rich and slightly bitter. If you're after something sweeter, you can get some whipped cream in a little jug on the side which you can add to taste. Or just use the teaspoon to scoop, dip and eat as Mot recommended.
Brunetti's Italian Hot Chocolate: perfect for the mid-afternoon chocolate hit. I'd be a regular if they were in Perth or I were in Melbourne (sigh).
Posted on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 and filed under Hot Chocolate, Melbourne 2005.
Comments
Ooooh, yum. If anywhere should have good hot chocolate, it'd be Melbourne.
Posted by: Miles on November 8, 2005
I was in Melbourne last week and went to Brunetti as you recommended. It was fantastic! I hadn't tasted hot chocolate like that since I was in Italy. Thanks so much for making me aware of Brunetti's!
Posted by: Andrew on November 14, 2005
I went to brunetti last week and the best person that makes coffe and hot choccolate is a baristA called Mario hes an italian guy with really short hair he made me a spectacular coffe and an hot choccolate that i never had in my life and with a taste that you cant forget. I rekkon he should get an award for making the best coffe in melbourne and people should be proud to have him.. Cheers
Antonio
Posted by: Antonio on October 7, 2008
