Max Brenner's: Chocolate by the Bald Man

With over 20,000 restaurants in NYC, it's hardly possible to even cover just 1% of them in the span of a year. But one place you definitely have to go is Max Brenner's. Located in East Village, this unique restaurant is best known for all of its chocolaty goodness. This cozy little place has an old fashion feel with a modern twist and is great for a meal or just dessert. They have a unique chocolate candy store and gift shop in the front, a chocolate bar lining the entire restaurant, and dining tables surrounded by gigantic chocolate bars in an assortment of flavors. The menu offers a wide variety of delicious traditional everyday foods but the dessert menu is anything but traditional. It offers anything chocolate you could imagine: chocolate pizza, crepes, waffles, fondue, plus all your traditional dessert favorites with a chocolate twist. And they are all to die for! They also have the richest, most scrumptious hot chocolate you've ever tried, served in an unusually adorable handle-less mug called a "hugmug". My husband's favorite is "choco-pops" which is their traditional hot chocolate with floating chocolate wafer balls. As for dessert, we prefer the "melting chocolate truffle heart cake", as seen above. It's $13.25 for a pretty small portion but it's so rich and delicious it's worth every cent!