This week I drove down to Burke Road Camberwell for a visit to the insta famous Acai Brothers Camberwell. It is situated a short walk from Camberwell station on the corner of the very popular Burke Road. As a person with a love for REAL ice cream and REAL chocolatey snacks, I entered Acai Brothers with one key preconceived idea: it would all taste too healthy.
So with that I entered the small store and peered up at the chalk board style menu, with absolutely no idea what to order, so here is the low down on the full experience.
Step 1: Choosing a bowl
There are plenty of options at Acai Brothers, from simple bowls, to full blown artistic extravaganzas and waffles, with plenty of smoothies in between. The basic bowls come with a flavoured base and fruit toppings while the specialty bowls feature a few more bells and whistles. I opted for a specialty bowl in the spirit of ‘go big or go home’. I went for Ain’t Nothin Butter, that had a chocolate and peanut butter style base with yoghurt and sauce (acai, banana, raw peanut butter, pB sauce, cacao, cacao nibs, coconut yoghurt and choc buckini) and was topped with my three fruits of choice: peach, banana and strawberry.
Step 2: Eating your bowl
All of my ‘this is going to be too healthy and not taste good’ expectations were well and truly surpassed by this delicious bowl. The coconut yoghurt has a texture that reminded me of whipped cream and the buckini were super crunchy, however it was the acai base that was by far the stand out. The fruity acai bowls have a slightly more icy texture than the chocolate/peanut butter bases which I found were more creamy.
Step 3: Realising they have other healthy treats and then buying some
Make sure you check out their range of cakes and cake style treats before you head off to explore the rest of Burke Road. A lot of their cakes mimic branded snacks like Maxibon ice creams and Nutella treats. I opted for the Nutella bar that was extremely gorgeous, coated in a glimmering dark chocolate. While it was quite bitter (what did I expect from healthy Nutella bar…) I still enjoyed the flavour and felt incredibly full after eating the whole thing.
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