Chocolateria San Churro, Glebe

San Churro hot chocolate

Okay so I've been meaning to get to San Churro for weeks now, the Victorian franchise that opened up its first Sydney branch in Glebe over a month ago.

Chocolate con churros bring together perhaps the two greatest things in this life: melted chocolate and freshly made donuts. As Homer would say, anghhhhhhhhhhhhhkkkkkk.


San Churro Truffles $1.95 each

It's a warm and cosy cafe that greets you, plenty of dark wood, a splash of tangerine on one wall and a Spanish arch that leads to an alcove of tables. At the front are shelves laden with shiny cellophane bags containing chocolate buds, cocoa powder and gift packs containing t-shirts. But the eye is more likely to be drawn to the display cabinet of chocolate cakes and pastries, the sliding drawer of truffles that resemble fine jewellery, or the huge vat of oil into which lengths of churros may be sizzling and crisping to a golden bliss.

The hot chocolate is extremely thick, the texture of thickening custard, and served at a very hot temperature. Both its density and its heat mean the use of a spoon is somewhat necessary.

We sample four different truffles, containing absinthe, peanut butter, balsamic vinegar and chilli. It's hard to detect the absinthe, but the peanut butter is smooth and creamy, the balsamic has a nuance of raspberries, and the chilli truffle is both flavoured and dusted with tongue-tingling chilli powder.


Churros kids serve $3.95

But it's the churros that is the main attraction and they are indeed the highlight. I'm childishly pleased with the kids serve ($3.95), two churros that come with your choice of melted chocolate (I chose dark over milk and white) and even better, a little pot of hundreds and thousands as well.

The churros are warm and crispy, the golden corrugations perfect vessels for holding lashings of sweet melted chocolate. The rainbow of hundred and thousands make for a total sugar overload, but it's such a cheerful juvenile indulgency that I can't resist... over and over again. The adult version ($7.95) comes with four churros but really, being a kid is much more fun.


Chocolateria San Churro
47 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, Sydney
Tel: +61 (02) 9692 0119

Open 7 days 9am-11pm
(Friday and Saturday til midnight)


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