Chocolate. Pistachio. Crunchy kataifi pastry. All delicious dessert ingredients on their own, but put them together and what do you get? A global viral sensation, pistachio shortages and a sudden surge in travel to Dubai, apparently.
If you’ve been on the wrong side of the internet for the last two years and haven’t heard of Dubai chocolate, let us clue you in. First created by a dessert business in the UAE, these chocolate bars are filled with pistachio, tahini and kataifi, the crunchy pastry used in knafeh. After going viral on Tiktok, they’ve since spawned copycat bars and Dubai chocolate-inspired treats all over the world, and Brisbane has not been left out, with everything from cookies to froyo getting the Dubai chocolate treatment.
So whether your for you page is currently nothing but chocolate bars or you’ve been totally oblivious but we got your attention with the word ‘dessert,’ here’s where to find the best Dubai chocolate-inspired treats in Brisbane right now.
Yozo
6/57 Musk Avenue, Kelvin Grove
Want a DIY version of the Dubai chocolate cup? That’s what you’ll find at Yozo, Kelvin Grove’s sweet froyo and dessert spot. Your options are endless here, with acai, froyo and housemade pistachio and strawberry mousses that you can layer with fresh strawberries, kataifi, endless other sweet toppings (hello cookie dough) and finish off with a generous drizzle from there self-serve chocolate tap. Yes, we said chocolate tap.
ChocoBliss
Various Locations
You know what will make your next shopping trip a whole lot better? A cup of strawberries, pistachio and kataifi filling, and warm milk or white chocolate sauce, all layered up and topped with chopped pistachios. ChocoBliss slings these serves of sweet goodness from their shopping centre kiosks but that’s not all – if you want a little something extra to take home, you can also pick up their version of the Dubai chocolate bar, along with cups of straight pistachio filling topped with chocolate.
Kombi Alley At Eat Street
221D Macarthur Avenue, Hamilton
Dubai chocolate fever has definitely hit Eat Street, with the sugar coma-inducing dessert food trucks in Kombi Alley serving up a decadent range of pistachio and kataifi loaded treats. We’re talking doughnut fries, doughnut balls, strawberry cups and funnel cakes loaded up with chocolate soft serve, a drizzle of pistachio sauce and a sprinkle of crisp kataifi pieces. Basically, whatever dessert you want, they’ll do it in Dubai chocolate form.
Anita Gelato
111 Boundary Street, West End
Image credit: Anita Gelato | Facebook
Dubai chocolate cups levelled up with pistachio gelato? We are in. Anita Gelato is serving up layers of fresh strawberry, chocolate sauce, pistachio sauce and kataifi, but here you can give yourself even more of a sugar coma by adding a scoop of gelato on top in your choice of flavour. We’d recommend chocolate or pistachio obviously, but if you want to throw in matcha or salted caramel, you do you.
Chockie Bakehouse
85 Deshon Street, Woolloongabba
Hope you’ve got a birthday coming up, because you’ll want a reason to order a whole slab of Chockie Bakehouse’s Dubai chocolate pistachio baked cheesecake. Silky vanilla cream cheese filling sits atop a buttery biscuit base, while on top sits a golden layer of kataifi pistachio, chocolate ganache and crushed pistachios. You can also get it by the slice with a coffee in their café if you’re lucky enough, but why risk missing it when you can pre-order a whole cake on their website?
Brooki Bakehouse
Marshall Street, Fortitude Valley
Never one to back down from a dessert trend, Brooki Bakehouse has jumped on board the craze with a Dubai chocolate cookie AND brownie. You’ll want to line up early at their Valley store to get your hands on one, as these bad boys sell out fast, but do and you’ll be rewarded with either a chocolate cookie stuffed with a pistachio kataifi centre or a fudgy chocolate brownie topped with a layer of pistachio kataifi smothered in rich chocolate ganache. Drooling.
Famous Mocktails
5/662 Compton Road, Calamvale
From what we’ve heard around the grounds (read: Reddit), Famous Mocktails is the place to go if you want the best housemade Dubai chocolate block in Brisbane. Crunchy pistachio kataifi filling enveloped in velvety smooth chocolate sounds like reason enough to motor down to Calamvale to us, but they also serve up Dubai chocolate strawberry cups and cheesecake cups if you need more.
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