Lindt Cafe
Martin Place, 53 Philip St
Sydney, NSW 2000
$$$–

I suppose you could consider the Lindt Cafe a slightly more upper-class version of Max Brenner. As a huge fan of Lindt, I was all excited when I heard they were opening their “Concept Store” just down the road from work.. but after months, I still hadn’t gotten round to visiting, tsk tsk. So I finally booked a ‘meeting’ with my team and another team at work, for next Friday.

However, today, myself and a colleague decided we just couldn’t wait any longer 😉 So it was off on a spontaneous trip to chocolate mecca. It was pretty packed when we got there, but we miraculously were seated immediately as a table was vacated just then. Eagerly perused the menu before we decided on a Main, Dessert and Drink each. The food arrived really quickly and service was super prompt and polite.

I ordered the Dark Hot Chocolate drink, which other colleagues said was a must-try. They weren’t wrong. I like the novelty factor of pouring the liquid Lindt chocolate into the cup, then pouring the frothy milk. That aside though, the drink was really rich, warm, and so so chocolately… mmm 🙂 My lunch companion had the Iced chocolate which was also really creamy, with chocolate shavings at the bottom as “a surprise!”

My main was the Cantina Roll: Roast Pork Loin, Sage & Onion Marmalade & Baby Spinach. I’m normally not a fan of sandwiches/bread.. they’re just too uninteresting to me. But this sandwich won me over. It was lightly toasted and the bread was hot and fresh. Best bit was the pork though.. it was tender and had the loveliest porky taste (okay, not very descriptive, but it really was like that!). The caramelised marmalade was sublime and went PERFECTLY with the pork.

Gobbled everything up and it was onto our desserts. We decided to share, and I chose the Waffle with Lindt Vanilla White Chocolate Ice Cream & Liquid Chocolate Sauce. I WILL DEFINITELY COME BACK FOR THAT!! The ice cream itself blew me away.. and it had those little black bits in it from the vanilla bean. Just creamy and divine :)~ The waffle was also yummy, especially with the (generous) pot of liquid chocolate to pour all over it…. Mmmmm… ahhhhh… Also had some of the Opera Cake: Layers of dark chocolate ganache, coffee butter cream and almond sponge cake, soaked in coffee syrup.. totally dense and rich, and the kick of coffee was just brilliant.

Finished it all off by buying some takeaway Lindt balls and Lindt truffles, as we thought it’d be nice to get some chocolates for the team back in the office.

I’ll definitely go back again.. and I guess I am next Friday anyway 😛 However, I won’t go nuts and order like I did, as aftewards, I felt really ill and chocolated-out 🙁 A total chocoholic’s delight though, and the store itself is gorgeous!

The Lindt Concept Store

Dark Hot Chocolate drink (AU$5.50)

Iced chocolate (AU$5.50)

Cantina Roll: Roast Pork Loin, Sage & Onion Marmalade & Baby Spinach (AU$8.50)

Schiacciata: Poached Chicken Breast, Rocket, Mushrooms & Creme Fraiche (AU$10.00)

Waffle with Lindt Vanilla White Chocolate Ice Cream & Liquid Chocolate Sauce (AU$12.50)

Opera Cake: Layers of dark chocolate ganache, coffee butter cream
and almond sponge cake, soaked in coffee syrup (AU$10.00)

Truffles galore

Chocolates galore

Lindt chocolates :)~
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