Chocolateria San Churro (Choc-dipped churros)

Suppress the urge to run your fingers along the pretty wallpaper or make sure you do it well before you tuck into a mouth-watering platter of chocolate tapas. For this delightful selection of sweets will definitely leave your fingers sticky! A tapas platter comes piled high with deep-fried Spanish doughnuts called churros, a little pot of dipping chocolate, a selection of hand-made chocolate truffles, a scrumptious piece of cake and a scoop of San Churro's renowned couverture chocolate ice-cream. The balance of sweet and savoury really makes the whole platter easy to swallow and in no time at all, you'll be staring at an empty plate.

Chocolate lovers will delight in that San Churro's tapas platter doesn't deviate from the theme. Everything on the platter is chocolate or created largely with chocolate - except the hot, golden churros, which you'll eventually dunk into molten chocolate anyway! However, if you take a purist's stance, you'd agree that San Churro's has plenty of other options for non-chocoholics - namely, confections in white chocolate. There's also a wide range of coffee-infused options and of course, more churros, which are plated and served almost as fast as they are fried.

Pop into San Churro's for a true Madrileno's breakfast - of hot chocolate and churros - and feel not a twinge of guilt. San Churros around Melbourne only throw open their doors between 9:30 and 10am. Your Spanish counterparts would have had their churros con chocolate at daybreak, while on their way home from an all-night fiesta, and would now probably be fast asleep in bed!