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Monday, October 23, 2006

A heaven for chocoholics

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A friend writes: "Since the loss of Rumplemeyer's on Central Park South, I feared that my trips to the Big Apple would never be the same. Remember the whipped cream in a silver bowl brought to the table at Rumplemeyer's?"

But last weekend, she found a chocoholic replacement.

She goes on to tout Max Brenner's: Chocolate by the Bald Man in Union Square. "The hot chocolate was amazing," she writes. "I had the toffee hot chocolate. They serve only one size, tiny, for about $4.20. But once you taste it, you don't care." Her companions had hot choco-pops, which had tiny crunchy malted milk balls, and another had Italian hot chocolate containing espresso.

On its website, Max Brenner's lists many shops in Australia, the Philippines, and Israel, where the company originated, and now one in New York (another is set to open on the Upper East Side). Oh, and the cafes also offer low-fat items and "healthy" breakfasts. Though, as my correspondent says, "Why bother?"

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